Dutch King Willem-Alexander apologised to Indonesia on Tuesday for "excessive violence" during the former colony's independence struggle in the 1940s. The king made the remarks during a state visit to ...

On April 2, UCA News published a short book review highlighting the Dutch clergy who defended the colonial war in Indonesia from 1945 to 1949. This conflict is commonly known as the Indonesian ...

A new book by a Dutch historian has revealed that Christian pastors and priests not only justified the colonial war with Indonesia, but also remained silent about war crimes. Koos-Jan de Jager’s ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Twenty years after he returned from Indonesia, Joop Hueting gave a soldier's eyewitness account of the "police actions" to suppress what the Dutch viewed as a nationalist ...

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Video of Dutch troops overseeing the torching of houses in an Indonesian village plays in one room of the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam. A few meters away, a baby’s clothes sewn from book ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - The Netherlands formally apologized Thursday for mass killings committed by the Dutch military more than six decades ago in Indonesia during its former colony’s fight for ...

Even the most well-read World War II enthusiast is likely unaware of one major military operation that happened in 1945. It involved Royal Air Force bombers, 24 Sherman tanks, and 36,000 troops—some ...

Dutch King Willem-Alexander apologised to Indonesia on Tuesday for "excessive violence" during the former colony's independence struggle in the 1940s. King Willem-Alexander's apology to Indonesia for ...