ABSTRACT
In this book, we have explicitly placed the extreme violence against Indo-European, Moluccan and Dutch civilians and captured fighters in the first phase of the Indonesian Revolution in the context of the extreme violence against civilians or unarmed soldiers of other nationalities and ethnicities. That is why we have attempted to estimate not only the number of Dutch, Indo-European and Moluccan victims, but also to report what is known about casualties among the Indonesians, Chinese, British and Japanese. The amount of information that is available about the number of victims and their backgrounds differs from group to group. Some groups have hardly been investigated at all; in those cases, determining the number of casualties is more a question of giving impetus to further research than providing a well-founded estimate.
