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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Banda Islands massacre canonical | 1 |
| Banda massacre | 1 |
| Massacre of the Bandanese | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: Banda Islands massacre Context triple: [Jan Pieterszoon Coen, knownFor, Banda Islands massacre]
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Balangiga massacre
The Balangiga massacre was a 1901 surprise attack by Filipino guerrillas on American troops in the town of Balangiga, Samar, which led to brutal U.S. reprisals and became one of the most infamous incidents of the Philippine–American War.
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Muar massacre
The Muar massacre was a World War II atrocity in which Japanese forces killed large numbers of Australian and Indian prisoners of war and local civilians near Muar in British Malaya in 1942.
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Huế Massacre
The Huế Massacre was a mass killing of thousands of civilians and prisoners by communist forces during their occupation of the city of Huế in the 1968 Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.
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D.
Sook Ching massacre
The Sook Ching massacre was a World War II mass killing carried out by the Japanese military in Singapore, targeting and executing thousands of ethnic Chinese civilians suspected of anti-Japanese sentiments.
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Madiun Affair
The Madiun Affair was a 1948 communist-led uprising in East Java that was violently suppressed by the Indonesian government, marking a key turning point in the struggle over Indonesia’s post-independence political direction.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Banda Islands massacre Target entity description: 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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A.
Balangiga massacre
The Balangiga massacre was a 1901 surprise attack by Filipino guerrillas on American troops in the town of Balangiga, Samar, which led to brutal U.S. reprisals and became one of the most infamous incidents of the Philippine–American War.
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B.
Muar massacre
The Muar massacre was a World War II atrocity in which Japanese forces killed large numbers of Australian and Indian prisoners of war and local civilians near Muar in British Malaya in 1942.
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C.
Huế Massacre
The Huế Massacre was a mass killing of thousands of civilians and prisoners by communist forces during their occupation of the city of Huế in the 1968 Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.
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D.
Sook Ching massacre
The Sook Ching massacre was a World War II mass killing carried out by the Japanese military in Singapore, targeting and executing thousands of ethnic Chinese civilians suspected of anti-Japanese sentiments.
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E.
Madiun Affair
The Madiun Affair was a 1948 communist-led uprising in East Java that was violently suppressed by the Indonesian government, marking a key turning point in the struggle over Indonesia’s post-independence political direction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial atrocity
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massacre ⓘ war crime ⓘ |
| hasAftermath |
establishment of Dutch nutmeg plantations
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importation of enslaved laborers to Banda plantations ⓘ long-term demographic change in Banda Islands ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Banda Islands massacre
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surface form:
Banda massacre
Banda Islands massacre ⓘ
surface form:
Massacre of the Bandanese
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| hasCause |
Dutch East India Company spice monopoly policy
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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
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spice monopoly system ⓘ |
| hasFollowedBy | full VOC administrative control over Banda Islands ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalContext |
Dutch–Portuguese competition in the East Indies
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European colonial expansion in Southeast Asia ⓘ spice trade rivalry ⓘ |
| hasLegacy |
subject of historical debate about colonial genocide
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symbol of Dutch colonial violence in Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasLegalStatusInHistoriography | considered an act of genocide by some historians ⓘ |
| hasLocation |
Banda Islands
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Dutch East Indies ⓘ Maluku Islands ⓘ present-day Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasMethod |
deportation
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destruction of villages ⓘ enslavement ⓘ mass killing ⓘ |
| hasMotive |
control of nutmeg production
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economic gain ⓘ |
| hasNotableFigure | Jan Pieterszoon Coen ⓘ |
| hasPerpetrator |
Dutch East India Company
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VOC ⓘ |
| hasPrecededBy |
Bandanese resistance to VOC monopoly
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VOC treaties with Bandanese over nutmeg trade ⓘ |
| hasResult |
Dutch control of Banda Islands
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VOC monopoly on nutmeg from Banda Islands ⓘ depopulation of Banda Islands ⓘ near extermination of Bandanese population ⓘ |
| hasStartTime | 1621 ⓘ |
| hasTarget |
Bandanese leaders
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indigenous Bandanese population ⓘ |
| hasTemporalContext | 17th century ⓘ |
| hasVictimCount | thousands of Bandanese killed ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands
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VOC expansion in the Maluku Islands ⓘ |
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Subject: Banda Islands massacre Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (3)
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