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GA-00600 1947-07-08 De Heerenveensche Koerier rel A

Nederlandse zuiveringsactie op Zuid-Celebes (Dutch purge action in South Celebes)

Dutch purge action in South Celebes

De Heerenveensche Koerier, 8 July 1947, summarising a Vrij Nederland exposé on the Dutch 'purge' in South Sulawesi (Dec 1946-Mar 1947), with sworn statements and over 20,000 reported dead. It quotes a letter from the women of Makassar protesting the soldiers' methods, signed on behalf of a women's social association by

GA-00499 1970-06-22 Algemeen Handelsblad rel B

Soekarno, grondlegger van Indonesië (Sukarno, pendiri Indonesia)

Sukarno, founder of Indonesia

Algemeen Handelsblad obituary-profile of Sukarno (1970-06-22), covering his life, Guided Democracy, Nasakom, and the 30 September 1965 events, which it blames on palace guards and communist groups, followed by an anti-communist reaction costing 'tens of thousands' of lives. A photo caption states General Yani was murde

GA-00977 1989-09-02 De Waarheid rel B

Moorden (Suharto en de massamoorden van 1965-66)

Murders (Suharto and the mass killings of 1965-66)

De Waarheid piece (2 Sep 1989, p.16) criticising Suharto's silence on the 1965-66 massacres, quoting Stanley Karnow and C.L. Sulzberger on the killings and estimates of 300,000 to one million dead. It notes mass arrests without trial of hundreds of thousands, including members of SOBSI, Gerwani and Pemuda Rakjat, and t