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Dutch to pay children of colonial killings in Indonesia

By AFP
October 20, 2020

THE HAGUE: The Dutch government said on Monday it will pay a lump sum of 5,000 euros to children of all men executed by colonial troops during Indonesia’s independence war in the late 1940s. The announcement follows a court ruling earlier this year which ordered the state to compensate widows and children of 11 men killed in Indonesia’s southern Sulawesi between 1946 and 1947.