Indië Verloren… (2023)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 105 minuten / 132 minuten (IDFA)
Alternative title: Selling a Colonial War
Country:
Netherlands
Directed by: In-soo Radstake
IMDb score:
7,5 (102)
Releasedate: 11 January 2024
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Indië Verloren… plot
In the Netherlands, colonial history is slowly but surely being rewritten. It had been clear for some time that what the Dutch government at the time called 'police actions' – the deployment of the army after Indonesia's declaration of independence in 1945 – was in fact an unlawful war. But the term 'war crimes' is still sensitive. This documentary reveals how far the Dutch rulers went in selling the war as a domestic affair, intended to restore peace among the population.
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hvdriel
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The documentary makes it clear that the Netherlands waged an unlawful war in the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia in the late 1940s. At that time and for decades later, that war was transformed with euphemistic language (police actions) and propaganda films into a legitimate action to liberate the native population (natives) from the 'illegal' Indonesian regime.
How current can you be with a Putin who follows the same logic to camouflage war crimes in Ukraine?
I'm just stating what I understood, because the documentary is so messy and jumpy that afterwards you hope to come across a clear article with photos somewhere that explains the complex problem (Indonesia also has its own historiography). ) is understandable in the international context of the time.
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