AMSTERDAM (AP) — Video of Dutch troops overseeing the torching of houses in an Indonesian village plays in one room of the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam. A few meters away, a baby’s clothes sewn from book ...
At the Netherlands’ national museum, describing the events in which Indonesia threw off Dutch colonial rule was never going to be easy. By Nina Siegal AMSTERDAM — When the Rijksmuseum decided to stage ...
Sri Lanka’s foreign minister said Monday that his country welcomes the Netherlands’ plan to return hundreds of colonial-era artifacts — including a bejeweled, ceremonial cannon — and said the Indian ...