DutchNews.nl,
Thursday 12 September 2013
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The apology
is part of a settlement made between the Netherlands and widows from South
Sulawesi, whose men were executed without trial by Dutch soldiers in 1946 and
1947. The widows can also claim compensation for their husbands’ deaths.
The widows
themselves were not at the cultural centre in Jakarta to hear the apology
because they are too old and sick to travel, Nos television said. The
ambassador will travel later to Sulawesi to meet the women in person.
The Dutch
military interventions in Indonesia, or Dutch Indies as it was known then,
followed the proclamation of the independent Republic of Indonesia in 1945 and
lasted until the country formally gained independence in 1949 after a bloody
struggle.
Thousands
of Indonesian independence fighters were executed by the Dutch.
At the end
of 2011, the Netherlands finally formally apologised for the massacre of
hundreds of men and boys in the Javanese village of Rawagede in 1947. Those
widows, too, have been given compensation.
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Dutch
Ambassador Tjeerd de Zwaan speaks with relatives of
those executed by Dutch
soldiers at a public apology ceremony
in Jakarta on September 12. (EPA
Photo/STR)
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