After many years of legal struggle, nine widows from the Indonesian village of Rawagede have each been awarded 20,000 euros compensation by the Dutch government for war crimes committed in 1947. On their arrival back home it was clear that the rest of the community in West Java where Dutch troops murdered 431 people were not happy.
Professor Rianne Letschert sees this as an example of how the justice system fails victims. In her inaugural speech at the University of Tilburg, she called for a different form of compensation for war crimes in which there are sometimes hundreds of victims
By Maike Winters
Source : Radio Netherlands Worldwide
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