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Published on : 11 December 2009 - 5:41pm | By Davion Ford
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In 1947, Dutch troops killed more than 400 people from the villiage Rawagedeh on Java island, Indonesia. 62 years after the massacre, a group of survivors has filed suit against the Netherlands.

 

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Anonymous 15 December 2009 - 4:43pm / Lalaland.
War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it. War is the unfolding of miscalculations and cruelty.
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Davion Ford 15 December 2009 - 1:19pm / the Netherlands
I would like to thank Anonymous for pointing out my error related to the year the Rawagedeh massacre took place. Fortunately I did have it correct in the actual video but I do apologise for the misleading info in the text.
Anonymous 15 December 2009 - 5:19am / indonesia
Didn't dutch troops abandoned indonesia in 1942?And most of indonesian youths joined the japanese army.If there was a massacre in japanese area by dutch there must be a reaction fro the japs

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