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The history of Indonesian spices is written in blood. The island of Run, once the only place in the world where nutmeg grew, was forcibly depopulated by the Du
by dustintrex 5y ago
The history of Indonesian spices is written in blood. The island of Run, once the only place in the world where nutmeg grew, was forcibly depopulated by the Dutch, massacring some 10,000 people in the process:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_conquest_of_the_Banda_Islands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_conquest_of_the_Banda_Is...
- packetslave 5y agoWhich is covered on the site under "Banda Islands : Where The Story Began"
- dustintrex 5y agoOoh, good find, here's the link: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/QAVxVli-R3XwZQ https://artsandculture.google.com/story/QAVxVli-R3XwZQ The nutmeg story doesn't cover or link to this though.
- redis_mlc 5y agoIndonesian people have remarkably little animosity after being colonized by the Dutch for about 300 years - basically none. But if you ask about the Japanese WW2 occupation, they call them "cruel." (The US told the Dutch not to re-occupy Indonesia after WW2, essentially giving Indonesia its freedom. This was part of Roosevelt's effort to decolonize most of the globe, and is one of the great legacies of the USA, contrary to current Marxist self-loathing.)