Indonesia and small wars in Southeast Asia-Post WWII?

[ntut]

Thank you for these previous links.

There is also one more conflict:

2) West Papua campaign (1961-1962) -> Successfull Indonesian campaign to grab Netherlands New Guinea into Indonesia. 3,000 Indonesian soldiers infiltrated into the territory to fight Dutch soldiers, and backed by USA and Soviet diplomatic pressure, Netherlands yielded the territory to UN in 1962 who then yielded the territory to Indonesia in 1963. Around 20 Dutch soldiers and 300 Indonesian soldiers killed (500 captured).

[davidbfpo]

A short report on a contentious issue in Holland; this sentence explains why:

Both were charged with tarnishing the honour and good name of Dutch troops by comparing their actions to those of the Nazi SS.

Link:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...e-1439153.html

[davidbfpo]

The Indonesian Confrontation returns via the blog Defence in Depth, with a short article by the author of a 2012 book:http://defenceindepth.co/2015/10/01/the-act-of-killing/

It ends with:

Thus, wars may be ‘small’ in terms of the impact that they have on the British consciousness; but that doesn’t mean that their impact on others is limited similarly. The end of Confrontation was accompanied by events that had a profound impact on Indonesia. In the end, perhaps the biggest winner wasn’t Britain, but the Indonesian army.

The book, with no Amazon reviews and ouch expensive:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Confrontatio...+confrontation