Beyond the Pale : Dutch Extreme Violence in the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949
On 17 August 1945, two days after the Japanese surrender, Indonesia declared its independence. The declaration was not recognized by the Netherlands, which resorted to force in its attempt to take control of the inevitable process of decolonization. This led to four years of difficult negotiations and bitter warfare. In 2005, the Dutch government declared that the Netherlands should never have waged the war. The government’s 1969 position on the violence used by the Dutch armed forces during the war remained unchanged, however: although there had been ‘excesses’, on the whole the armed forces... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | BOOK |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
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Amsterdam University Press
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Schlagwörter: | History / Military / Wars & Conflicts (other) / bisacsh:HIS027130 / Political Science / Colonialism & Post-colonialism / bisacsh:POL045000 / History / Modern / 20th Century / bisacsh:HIS037070 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27420490 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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