THE HAGUE, Feb 18 (AFP): The Netherlands prime minister apologised to Indonesia on Thursday night (Feb 17) after a study found that the Dutch army used "systematic and extreme violence" during Indonesia's independence war.
Dutch forces burned villages and carried out mass detentions, torture and executions during the 1945-49 conflict, often with tacit government support, said the four-year study by Dutch and Indonesian researchers.
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