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Boyd van Dijk

Dr. Boyd van Dijk is a McKenzie Fellow at the Melbourne Law School. He taught previously at the London School of Economics, King’s College London, Queen Mary, and the University of Amsterdam.

POSTS BY Boyd van Dijk

25 January 2022

Aggression, War Crimes, and the Indonesian Revolution

The specter of the Indonesian Revolution is still haunting our understanding of Dutch imperial violence. In this blog post, I want to highlight two central issues regarding the conflict’s legal history – one involving the alleged non-application of the laws of war to the conflict which has been a mainstay argument in Dutch official narratives, and the other regarding the ways in which we delineate today our legal-moral reasoning with respect to Dutch transgression. Continue reading >>

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