Year: 2022
Type: paratext
Abstract: Notes 1 1.Background, guiding principles and methodology 1 The armed clashes in New Guinea in 1962, even if involving deaths and injuries, are considered to constitute a low-intensity conflict, which is sometimes referred to as 'the Netherlands' last small colonial war' . 2 The acronyms stand for the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land-en Volkenkunde, kitlv-knaw), the Netherlands Institute for Military History (Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie, nimh), and the niod Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (niod Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust-en Genocidestudies, niodknaw).3 In a later formulation from early 2017, the research was to be about 'the most important questions about decolonization policy, violence, and war -with a focus on (accounting for) the Dutch military conduct -[will be] answered, with close attention given to the historical, political, and international context and the legacy of the war' .This and other documents related to the study can be found at niod, archive Research -odgoi [archive number to be determined after inclusion of the collection in the niod archive in 2022], 4 The number of Indonesian victims is calculated on the basis of Dutch military documentation, see Christiaan Harinck, Nico van Horn and Bart Luttikhuis, 'Wie telt de Indonesische doden?' , De Groene Amsterdammer 141:30 (2017).The most recent estimates are given by Rémy Limpach, '"Ze vielen als gemaaid koren".Een beschouwing over de verliescijfers in Indonesië, 1945-49' , Militaire Spectator 1 (2022).Estimates of the number of civilian casualties during the bersiap period range from 3,000 to several times this amount; see the chapter by Esther Captain and Onno Sinke in this book.The number of deaths as a result of internal strife among the Indonesians is unknown but is somewhere in the tens of thousands.
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Universiteit Leiden
OpenAlex ID: W4224257054