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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220126-180331-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/aggression-war-crimes-and-the-indonesian-revolution/ Aggression, War Crimes, and the Indonesian Revolution van Dijk, Boyd eng 2022-01-25 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 colonialism Decolonization Human Rights Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 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.