Study finds ‘widespread’ ill-treatment and extrajudicial executions during 1945-9 war of independence
Mark Rutte, the prime minister of the Netherlands, has apologised after an inquiry revealed that the Dutch state condoned the systematic use of extrajudicial executions and torture during the 1945-9 Indonesian war of independence.
The “extreme violence” of the Netherlands’ military and intelligence services was said in the report to have been sanctioned at the highest levels of government, with all considerations subordinated to the goal of maintaining the colony.
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