Banda Islands massacre

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The Banda Islands massacre was a brutal 1621 campaign by the Dutch East India Company to exterminate or expel the indigenous population of the Banda Islands in order to secure a monopoly over the lucrative nutmeg trade.

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instanceOf colonial atrocity
massacre
war crime
hasAftermath establishment of Dutch nutmeg plantations
importation of enslaved laborers to Banda plantations
long-term demographic change in Banda Islands
hasAlternativeName Banda Islands massacre
surface form: Banda massacre

Banda Islands massacre
surface form: Massacre of the Bandanese
hasCause Dutch East India Company spice monopoly policy
desire to secure monopoly over nutmeg trade
hasCommander Jan Pieterszoon Coen
hasCountry Dutch Republic
hasDateDetail took place mainly in April 1621
hasEconomicContext global nutmeg trade
spice monopoly system
hasFollowedBy full VOC administrative control over Banda Islands
hasHistoricalContext Dutch–Portuguese competition in the East Indies
European colonial expansion in Southeast Asia
spice trade rivalry
hasLegacy subject of historical debate about colonial genocide
symbol of Dutch colonial violence in Indonesia
hasLegalStatusInHistoriography considered an act of genocide by some historians
hasLocation Banda Islands
Dutch East Indies
Maluku Islands
present-day Indonesia
hasMethod deportation
destruction of villages
enslavement
mass killing
hasMotive control of nutmeg production
economic gain
hasNotableFigure Jan Pieterszoon Coen
hasPerpetrator Dutch East India Company
VOC
hasPrecededBy Bandanese resistance to VOC monopoly
VOC treaties with Bandanese over nutmeg trade
hasResult Dutch control of Banda Islands
VOC monopoly on nutmeg from Banda Islands
depopulation of Banda Islands
near extermination of Bandanese population
hasStartTime 1621
hasTarget Bandanese leaders
indigenous Bandanese population
hasTemporalContext 17th century
hasVictimCount thousands of Bandanese killed
isPartOf Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands
VOC expansion in the Maluku Islands

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Jan Pieterszoon Coen knownFor Banda Islands massacre
Banda Islands massacre hasAlternativeName Banda Islands massacre
this entity surface form: Banda massacre
Banda Islands massacre hasAlternativeName Banda Islands massacre
this entity surface form: Massacre of the Bandanese