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A Military Tribunal for Dutch Comfort Women

The court martial held in Jakarta was only intended for the Dutch women forced into sexual servitude by the Japanese army.

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Budi Setiyono

23 Juli 2023

Japanese officer Sonei Kenitji tried in the Dutch court martial in Batavia.

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AFTER the defeat of Japan, in early January 1946, Lt. General Sir Philip Christison, the Allied commander, decided to organize military tribunals against Japanese war criminals. "The military court to be established is a Dutch court, because the Netherlands is the sovereign state in Indonesia. Therefore it is not valid to establish a British military court," Soeloeh Merdeka newspaper wrote on January 4, 1946.