The Nederlands Verbond place a report with the date on the Internet about a visit of their activists Adé Jansen en Frieda Jansen-Bastiaans a war veteran Rotterdam. It is an old veteran in the former Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) has fought. The Nederlands Verbond thanks to him "for all he has done for our country”. They give the man the lion Nederlands Verbond as a badge of honor. It mentions no word about the colonial past and the violence against the local population by the Dutch army.

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