Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte arrives for an extraordinary meeting of EU leaders to discuss the Ukraine and Russia situation at the European Council building in Brussels, Belgium February 17, 2022. - Reuters
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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