Comments on: My Heritage is My Right ! http://dutcheastindies.web.id/my-heritage-is-my-right Website dedicated to Dutch-Indonesian Community Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:15:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Bianca Dias-Halpert http://dutcheastindies.web.id/my-heritage-is-my-right/comment-page-1#comment-110 Bianca Dias-Halpert Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:54:53 +0000 http://dutcheastindies.web.id/my-heritage-is-my-right#comment-110 The atrocities of history's sins need to be acknowledged and the victims given their proper respect and honor. Violence and slaughter will never ever correct a wrong. The explosive rage that leashed out during Bersiap went beyond human comprehension. The descendants paid the price for the sins of their ancestors. This cycle must stop in the name of humanity. Everyone was hurt, from all directions: Dutch, Japanese, Indos, Chinese, anyone suspicious of siding with the Europeans. Of course there are no numbers recorded. But if we want a voice, let's make a collection of family oral history - a powerful tool. Think about it. The atrocities of history’s sins need to be acknowledged and the victims given their proper respect and honor. Violence and slaughter will never ever correct a wrong. The explosive rage that leashed out during Bersiap went beyond human comprehension. The descendants paid the price for the sins of their ancestors. This cycle must stop in the name of humanity. Everyone was hurt, from all directions: Dutch, Japanese, Indos, Chinese, anyone suspicious of siding with the Europeans. Of course there are no numbers recorded. But if we want a voice, let’s make a collection of family oral history – a powerful tool. Think about it.

]]> By: Michel de Wilde http://dutcheastindies.web.id/my-heritage-is-my-right/comment-page-1#comment-108 Michel de Wilde Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:32:01 +0000 http://dutcheastindies.web.id/my-heritage-is-my-right#comment-108 thank you very much for sharing your thoughts Jack. It is very surprising for me, educated in Indonesian history, and seeing that 95% (the 5% probably is the historians) don't even know about the "Bersiap". It was mentioned briefly in english wikipedia, but basically, it is never mentioned in history books. This kind of revisionism is no longer relevant in our era, it's as bad as denying holocaust. No matter how small the number was, there was victims, and they wish to be heard. there is yet a scientific study to reveal what really happened 64 years ago. Was the number of victim was too small so that it wasn't considered ethnic cleansing? But whatever the reason is, there is still a big cover up, and this don't make me too happy because we have right to know. thank you very much for sharing your thoughts Jack. It is very surprising for me, educated in Indonesian history, and seeing that 95% (the 5% probably is the historians) don’t even know about the “Bersiap”. It was mentioned briefly in english wikipedia, but basically, it is never mentioned in history books. This kind of revisionism is no longer relevant in our era, it’s as bad as denying holocaust. No matter how small the number was, there was victims, and they wish to be heard.

there is yet a scientific study to reveal what really happened 64 years ago. Was the number of victim was too small so that it wasn’t considered ethnic cleansing? But whatever the reason is, there is still a big cover up, and this don’t make me too happy because we have right to know.

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