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Politieke Gevangenen op het Eiland Buru (Amnesty International, 1976)
Political Prisoners on Buru Island (Amnesty International, 1976)
Amnesty International Dutch dossier (Oct 1976) on Buru Island: over 10,000 untried prisoners, forced labour, and prisoner lists including a women's list headed by a short Gerwani history naming women held in Bukit Duri and Plantungan.
Dosir bahasa Belanda Amnesty International (Okt 1976) tentang Pulau Buru: lebih dari 10.000 tahanan tanpa pengadilan, kerja paksa, dan daftar tahanan termasuk daftar perempuan yang diawali sejarah singkat Gerwani dengan nama perempuan di Bukit Duri dan Plantungan.
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- Date
- 1976
- Creator
- Amnesty International
- Document type
- report (human rights report with appended prisoner lists (mimeographed))
- Language
- Dutch; English
- Perspective
- Other
- Source role
- primary
- Country
- Netherlands
- Period
- 1967–1979
- Access
- Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
- Citation (APA)
- Amnesty International. (1976). Politieke gevangenen op het eiland Buru: Indonesië's systeem van permanente gevangenschap [Political prisoners on the island of Buru: Indonesia's system of permanent imprisonment; with appended Lijst m.b.t. Indonesische gevangenen (List of Indonesian prisoners), 15 September 1976] [Report]. Amnesty International, Amsterdam.
- File
- 01 Primary Sources/1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports/Amnesty International (1976) - Politieke Gevangenen op het Eiland Buru.pdf
- OCR / text
- Fair (0.813) · proof-reading: key passages (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: yes
- Collection
- 01 Primary Sources › 1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports
- Summary basis
- condensed from full annotation
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