ARTS1271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Guerrilla Warfare
11 Oct 2018
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The coloniser or the colonised: when does it begin, the end date is not independence, an unfinished process. Natives of colonialism/decolonisation (cid:858)o(cid:374)e pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:396)e(cid:271)el is a(cid:374)othe(cid:396) pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)(cid:859)s f(cid:396)eedo(cid:373) fighte(cid:396). (cid:859) Japanese rewriting history of invasion of china: china being uncensored in this record, competing narratives. Japanese occupation of south-east asia destroyed notion of western superiority: when japan decimated the russian navy, the image of asia as week, malays surprised west by being tall and well-fed, to re-orient the world, decolonisation was bloody. The decolonisation of indonesia 1950: guerrilla warfare dutch controlled towns, indonesians, countryside, weak state, did not have a choice but to resists, dutch reoccupation funded by us, fear of communism, aus. Took issue up with un in india: dutch wanted to use aus. Put them in war camps: transported to kawar by train, p(cid:396)iso(cid:374)e(cid:396) d(cid:396)opped pape(cid:396) out of (cid:449)i(cid:374)do(cid:449), (cid:858)politi(cid:272)al p(cid:396)iso(cid:374)e(cid:396)s(cid:859, east union, not criminals, from new guinea, aus.
