Comments on: “Bersiap”, Revisionism in Indonesian History Book? http://dutcheastindies.web.id/bersiap-revisionism-in-indonesian-history-book Website dedicated to Dutch-Indonesian Community Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:15:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Michel de Wilde http://dutcheastindies.web.id/bersiap-revisionism-in-indonesian-history-book/comment-page-1#comment-133 Michel de Wilde Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:35:57 +0000 http://dutcheastindies.web.id/?p=49#comment-133 Thank you for sharing your opinion Colson. To be honest I don't have any recollection or anything about this event. My oma never said anything about bersiap and I thought the dutch-indonesians and indonesians were united to drive dutch from Indonesia, I was confused afterward, why the indische expelled from Indonesia? My oma and her family also managed to avoid the atrocities, but they never told us about how terrible it was. Thank you for sharing your opinion Colson.

To be honest I don’t have any recollection or anything about this event. My oma never said anything about bersiap and I thought the dutch-indonesians and indonesians were united to drive dutch from Indonesia, I was confused afterward, why the indische expelled from Indonesia?

My oma and her family also managed to avoid the atrocities, but they never told us about how terrible it was.

]]> By: colson http://dutcheastindies.web.id/bersiap-revisionism-in-indonesian-history-book/comment-page-1#comment-132 colson Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:24:59 +0000 http://dutcheastindies.web.id/?p=49#comment-132 I read the discussion. It confirms what was told by members of my wife's family (Indonesian father, Dutch mother, at the time four Indo children). They only experienced the very last period of bersiap though - and without casualties fortunately. Yet they use to say it indeed was worse the imprisonment by the Japanese - like one of the participants in the discussion also said. Especially the atrocities in Surabay deserve to be the subject of some excellent and independent historians ( like Dutch atriocities during the war of Independence). I read the discussion. It confirms what was told by members of my wife’s family (Indonesian father, Dutch mother, at the time four Indo children). They only experienced the very last period of bersiap though – and without casualties fortunately. Yet they use to say it indeed was worse the imprisonment by the Japanese – like one of the participants in the discussion also said.

Especially the atrocities in Surabay deserve to be the subject of some excellent and independent historians ( like Dutch atriocities during the war of Independence).

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