Seventy years ago, Dutch soldiers were guilty of structural war violence during the independence struggle in Indonesia, according to a major investigation commissioned by the government. Michel Maas, who used to be a Volkskrant correspondent in Indonesia for many years, explains.
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‘The Dutch position that excessive violence in Indonesia was incidental is not tenable’
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