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2 itemsTopic: peace and anti-imperialism ✕Theme: Transnational connections ✕Place: South Sulawesi ✕
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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-01082 1954-06-08 Het Vaderland rel B

Indrukwekkende plechtigheid op het invasiestrand (met bericht over Gerwani en de Unie)

Impressive ceremony on the invasion beach (with item on Gerwani and the Union)

Het Vaderland front page (8 Jun 1954) opening with Dutch resistance veterans' wreath-laying at the Normandy invasion beaches, followed by Indonesian news. A short passage 'Indon. comm. women and the Union' says the Indonesian feminist movement Gerwani, recently hostess to delegations of communist women from Russia and