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The Banda Nise Genocide
In 1621, the Dutch governor general of the East Indies took a fleet to the Banda Islands. And actually in a period of like 10 weeks, he and his troops completely eliminated the Banda knees. They killed many thousand. They drove many thousands into the mountains where they starved and they enslaved thousands. But essentially the entire island was depopulated in about 10 weeks. The other edge of the Dutch Empire was where you are sitting and it was New Holland.
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