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Title Extreem geweld tijdens dekolonisatieoorlogen in vergelijkend perspectief, 1945-1962
Full text https://hdl.handle.net/1887/138183
Date 2020
Author(s) Brocades Zaalberg, T.W.; Luttikhuis, B.W.
Abstract In the last decade, a heated public debate broke out in the Netherlands about the extreme violence that Dutch security forces perpetrated in Indonesia between 1945 and 1949. Similar discussions cropped up in France and the United Kingdom. Exhaustive comparative research into excessive violence in Indonesia, Algeria, Indochina, Malaysia, Kenya and other places during the decolonisation wars has nevertheless only been sporadic. This forum is based on the initial findings of a recent research project and a conference that explored the options for more targeted comparative research. The provisional results that we share here demonstrate that although the armed conflicts strongly differed from each other, there were more similarities than differences in the ways in which extreme violence was used in them and the explanation for it. We conclude that all cases involved some form of institutionalised impunity, which enabled the type of situation in which the forces in the service of the colonial rulers were able to use extreme violence. - Colonial and Global History
Subject(s) Decolonization; extreme violence; counter-insurgency; comparative history
Language nl
Type of publication Article / Letter to editor; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; Text
Format application/pdf
Source BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review
Rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Identifier doi:10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10813; lucris-id:339130333
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
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