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Kuyper, Kevin de (2012)

Waarnemen, waken, wachten

Master thesis | History (MA)

This thesis focuses on the role that the Dutch (riot) police has played during the hijackings in 1977, where Moluccan youngsters occupied a train and primary school in their struggle for a free Moluccan Republic (the RMS) and the freedom of their fellow activists. Whereas almost all research on the subject has focused on the combatants (the military and special units that stormed the train), hijackers and hostages, I look at the role of the supporting units: the regular and riot police. I have interviewed eight members of these forces and dug deep in archives to describe how the police organisation and the policemen operated during the hijackings and its immediate aftermath.

De Punt

Bovensmilde

politie

Mobiele Eenheid

1977

Author

Kuyper, Kevin de

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

History of European Expansion and Globalisation

Supervisors

Lindblad, Thomas

ECTS Credits

30

Language

nl