{"id":41785,"date":"2022-02-17T22:27:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T13:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/17\/dutch-state-condoned-extreme-violence-in-indonesian-war-inquiry-concludes"},"modified":"2022-02-17T22:27:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T13:27:14","slug":"dutch-pm-apologises-for-states-role-in-abuses-in-1940s-indonesian-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41785","title":{"rendered":"Dutch PM apologises for state\u2019s role in abuses in 1940s Indonesian war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Study finds \u2018widespread\u2019 ill-treatment and extrajudicial executions during 1945-9 war of independence<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cextreme violence\u201d of the Netherlands\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/17\/dutch-state-condoned-extreme-violence-in-indonesian-war-inquiry-concludes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study finds \u2018widespread\u2019 ill-treatment and extrajudicial executions during 1945-9 war of independenceMark Rutte, the prime minister of the Netherlands, has apologised after an inquiry revealed that the Dutch state condoned the systematic use of extraju&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,749,221,156,219,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-colonialism","category-europe","category-indonesia","category-netherlands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41786,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41785\/revisions\/41786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}