There is no meeting in August. September meeting. 1621, Banda. The Genocide of Jan Pieterszoon Coen
Tuesday 10th September at the Indonesian embassy By Marjolein van Pagee, Dutch Historian & Author In 1621 Dutch VOC-leader Jan Pieterszoon Coen went to the Banda islands in the Moluccas with the aim to kill all the inhabitants and to establish a plantation colony. Four hundred years after the genocide was committed, the Netherlands commemorated this historical…