The Dutch government decided there will be a new investigation into the violence in Indonesia in the late forties of the last century.
Recently it became clear that Dutch soldiers used ‘structural violence’. Not only the actions of the Dutch will be examined, but the researchers will also study to Bersiap period. That is a violent period in the Dutch East Indies by Indonesian independence fighters after the Japanese surrendered.
ARTE Info reporter Antoine Mouteau visits the Dutch institute of war documentation and a Dutch woman that grew up in Indonesia during the period of decolonisation.
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