Dutch PM offers ‘deep apologies’ to people of Indonesia over colonial violence

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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte offered his “deep apologies” on Thursday to the people of Indonesia in response to a report on colonial violence committed by the Dutch during the Indonesian war of independence between 1945 and 1949.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — “I make deep apologies to the people of Indonesia today for the systematic and widespread extreme violence on the part of the Dutch side in those years and the consistent look away by previous cabinets,” Rutte stated.

Earlier on Thursday, a research report on the subject was presented as the result of five years of research. The conclusion was that during the Indonesian war of independence, the Netherlands structurally used excessive force, and the politicians in the Hague tacitly approved this. This conclusion was contrary to what the Dutch governments had stated previously that extreme violence was only used in exceptional cases.

 

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