The Dutch government says it will pay a lump sum of €5,000 (RM24,332) to children of all men executed by colonial troops during Indonesia’s independence war in the late 1940s.
The announcement on Monday follows a court ruling earlier this year which ordered the state to compensate widows and children of 11 men killed Sulawesi between 1946 and 1947.
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