Better late than never.
The Netherlands sent its Indonesia ambassador to a small Javanese village to, at long last, apologize for a bloodbath waged by colonialist troops in 1947, according to the AP.
The unarmed young men were slaughtered to intimidate and weaken a guerrilla force that later secured Indonesia's independence in 1949.
The apology, reports the Jakarta Globe, will be paired with $27,000 payouts to nine relatives of the victims.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-rice-bowl/dutch-indonesia-sorry-about-massacre


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