davebirch
Senior Member
Just noticed this article on the ABC website, it's about past injustices by the Dutch on the Indonesian people in 1940.
It also draws a comparison to the British invasion of Australia (that's what Aboriginal people call the 1776 arrival of Cook), and what could happen.
Here's another view:
It also draws a comparison to the British invasion of Australia (that's what Aboriginal people call the 1776 arrival of Cook), and what could happen.
Andi was 10 when his father was murdered in front of him. Now the Netherlands has to pay
The Dutch Government has been ordered to pay $17,000 to a victim of brutal violence it perpetrated in the 1940s. Could the UK do the same?
www.abc.net.au
Here's another view:
Early Indigenous accounts of Captain Cook paint a different picture to history
The accounts given by Indigenous witnesses are hardly ever a straightforward recounting of what Cook did. And they rarely tally with what is recorded in the voyage accounts.
www.abc.net.au