Whether out of historical interest, romantic identification with
the colonized or as models for contemporary counter-insurgency
experts, the mass violence of insurgency and counter-insurgency in
the post-war decolonization of the European empires has long
exerted an intense fascination. In the main, the dramas in French
Algeria and British Kenya in the 1950s have dominated the scene,
overshadowing the equally violent events that unfolded in the
Dutch, Belgian and Portuguese empires. "Colonial counterinsurgency
and mass violence" is the first book in English to treat the
intense conflict that occurred during the Indonesian revolution the
decolonization struggle of the Dutch East Indies between 1945 and
1949. This case is particularly significant as the first episode of
post-war colonial violence, indeed one with global reverberations.
International opinion was ranged against the Dutch, and the nascent
United Nations condemned its euphemistically termed police actions
to reclaim the archipelago from Indonesian nationalists after
defeat by the Japanese in 1942. As this book makes clear, however,
intra-Indonesian violence was no less prevalent, as rival
independence visions vied for control and villagers were caught
between the fronts. Taking a multi-perspectival approach, eighteen
authors examine the origins of the conflict as well as its
representational and memory dimensions." Colonial counterinsurgency
and mass violence" will appeal to scholars of imperial history,
mass violence and memory studies alike.
This book is based on a special issue of the Journal of Genocide
Research."
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