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oapen-20.500.12657-768772023-10-20T02:11:55Z Talen van geweld Raben, Remco Romijn, Peter van der Bent, Maarten van Mourik, Anne Indonesia, bersiap, war, violence, independence, decolonization, information, intelligence bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTR National liberation & independence, post-colonialism bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBW Military history::HBWS Military history: post WW2 conflicts bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPW Political activism::JPWS Armed conflict While the Netherlands is still struggling with the question of how serious and widespread the violence was in the Indonesian War of Independence, that history can be found everywhere in Indonesia. Monuments and burial grounds are the silent witnesses of the battle and the stories of the war are still circulating. Remco Raben and Peter Romijn argue in this book that the way the Netherlands has long viewed the war in Indonesia has its origins in the language and the manipulation of information during that war. They investigate the mentality of administration and politics in Indonesia and the Netherlands and trace the path that knowledge about violence has taken, from the villages and fields in Indonesia to the desks of administrators, politicians and journalists in the Netherlands. This book shows how the cover-up of violence in Indonesia worked. It explains why war crimes and other large-scale violence against the Indonesian population were tolerated, how the army was able to dominate the provision of information about the war, how administrative mechanisms and mentalities promoted the concealment, how Dutch politicians looked away, and how Indonesian voices were systematically were ignored. 2023-10-19T10:18:06Z 2023-10-19T10:18:06Z 2023 book 9789463726887 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76877 dut Onafhankelijkheid, Dekolonisatie, Geweld en Oorlog in Indonesië 1945-1950 application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789048556816.pdf Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789463726887 10.5117/9789463726887 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 9789463726887 594 Amsterdam open access
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While the Netherlands is still struggling with the question of how serious and widespread the violence was in the Indonesian War of Independence, that history can be found everywhere in Indonesia. Monuments and burial grounds are the silent witnesses of the battle and the stories of the war are still circulating. Remco Raben and Peter Romijn argue in this book that the way the Netherlands has long viewed the war in Indonesia has its origins in the language and the manipulation of information during that war. They investigate the mentality of administration and politics in Indonesia and the Netherlands and trace the path that knowledge about violence has taken, from the villages and fields in Indonesia to the desks of administrators, politicians and journalists in the Netherlands. This book shows how the cover-up of violence in Indonesia worked. It explains why war crimes and other large-scale violence against the Indonesian population were tolerated, how the army was able to dominate the provision of information about the war, how administrative mechanisms and mentalities promoted the concealment, how Dutch politicians looked away, and how Indonesian voices were systematically were ignored.
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