Ten photos that changed how we see human rights
- Written by Jane Lydon, Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, University of Western Australia
This 1904 photograph showing the massacre of villagers by Dutch KNIL forces in the Indonesian village of Koetö Réh was used by the Dutch to argue for the paternalistic colonial state as protector. We now see it as evidence of imperial atrocity.Collection Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen.
Nearly 70 years ago, in December 1948, the...