ABSTRACT
‘The sound of violence’ refers to the first months of the Indonesian Revolution, after the proclamation of independence on 17 August 1945. As explained in chapter 1, and as will also become clear later in this book, memories of this period of extreme violence are deeply anchored in the In-do-Dutch and Moluccan communities in the Netherlands. To further our understanding of the events, however, we need to view the extreme violence against Indo-Europeans, Moluccans and Dutch in a broader context.
