{"id":67228,"date":"2024-10-14T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/14\/families-seek-to-clear-names-of-men-who-refused-to-fight-for-former-dutch-colony"},"modified":"2024-10-14T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T04:00:12","slug":"families-seek-to-clear-names-of-men-who-refused-to-fight-for-former-dutch-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67228","title":{"rendered":"Families seek to clear names of men who refused to fight for former Dutch colony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conscientious objectors refused to take part in military campaign against Indonesian independence in 1940s<\/p>\n<p>Families of 20 men who were jailed for refusing to fight to preserve the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Indonesia\/Dutch-territorial-expansion\">Dutch colony<\/a> in Indonesia have formally asked for their names to be cleared, arguing that instead of \u201cdeserters, traitors and cowards\u201d their relatives deserve to be recognised as having been on the right side of history.<\/p>\n<p>An official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niod.nl\/en\/projects\/independence-decolonization-violence-and-war-indonesia-1945-1950\">investigation<\/a> into the period when Dutch colonies asserted their independence after the second world war found a failed military campaign in Indonesia had systematically used \u201cexcessive violence\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutchnews.nl\/2013\/09\/the_netherlands_apologies_for_1\/\">massacred<\/a> hundreds of innocent villagers, whose families eventually won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2011\/nov\/23\/dutch-compensation-massacre-indonesia?placeValuesBeforeTB_=savedValues&amp;KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true\">compensation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/14\/families-seek-to-clear-names-of-men-who-refused-to-fight-for-former-dutch-colony\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conscientious objectors refused to take part in military campaign against Indonesian independence in 1940sFamilies of 20 men who were jailed for refusing to fight to preserve the former Dutch colony in Indonesia have formally asked for their names to b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4015,"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":[41,221,156,219,220,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-indonesia","category-netherlands","category-second-world-war","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\/67228","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\/4015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67229,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67228\/revisions\/67229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}