7 research outputs found
Voorbij het koloniale perspectief: Indonesische bronnen en het onderzoek naar de oorlog in Indonesië, 1945-1949
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Oorlog in de archieven: Het Nederlands-Indonesisch conflict 1945-1950
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Generating distrust through intelligence work: psychological terror and the Dutch security services in Indonesia, 1945-1949
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Een discussie zonder eind, of een prematuur eind aan de discussie? Verslag debat "Dekolonisatieoorlog Indonesië 1945-1950: Onverenigbare herinneringen?"'
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70 jaar vrede en vrijheid? Een voorbarig jubileum
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Extreem geweld tijdens dekolonisatieoorlogen in vergelijkend perspectief, 1945-1962
In the last decade, a heated public debate broke out in the Netherlands about the extreme violence that Dutch security forces perpetrated in Indonesia between 1945 and 1949. Similar discussions cropped up in France and the United Kingdom. Exhaustive comparative research into excessive violence in Indonesia, Algeria, Indochina, Malaysia, Kenya and other places during the decolonisation wars has nevertheless only been sporadic. This forum is based on the initial findings of a recent research project and a conference that explored the options for more targeted comparative research. The provisional results that we share here demonstrate that although the armed conflicts strongly differed from each other, there were more similarities than differences in the ways in which extreme violence was used in them and the explanation for it. We conclude that all cases involved some form of institutionalised impunity, which enabled the type of situation in which the forces in the service of the colonial rulers were able to use extreme violence.Colonial and Global Histor