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201945 minPG-13documentary

Our boys in Java

201945 minPG-13documentary

Fourteen individuals recount their experiences, including Joop Hueting, who reported Dutch war crimes in 1969, in a series by journalist Coen Verbraak.

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Fourteen individuals recount their experiences, including Joop Hueting, who reported Dutch war crimes in 1969, in a series by journalist Coen Verbraak.

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In 'Our boys on Java', the four-part series that journalist and historian Coen Verbraak made for BNNVARA, fourteen of them still tell their stories. Including Joop Hueting, who in 1969 was the first to report war crimes committed by the Dutch. It was the last interview with Hueting; he passed away in November 2018.

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