Category talk:Internment camps of the Dutch Empire

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@Dan Carkner: List_of_concentration_and_internment_camps#Netherlands does not indicate any other topics that could be the subject of an article (or even a redirect) to be added into this category, so it is not useful for navigation. Would you consider transferring the member page into other appropriate categories, and marking this with {{db-author}} for deletion? – Fayenatic London 10:45, 4 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm good question. Let me think if there are possible others (in South Africa, Suriname, or the Indies etc) before going forward with that tag. I wouldn't rely on what is described already on Wikipedia to make that decision as coverage of Dutch colonial history is somewhat incomplete, but you may be right nonetheless. --Dan Carkner (talk) 14:40, 4 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Fayenatic london: If you're still interested in this matter - Based on some searches on Delpher and google for concentratiekamp and other terms, there are indeed some other camps which have not yet recevied their own articles in the Dutch empire. There were some British-run concentration camps in the Orange Free State (alluded to in Bloemfontein#Orange_Free_State_(1854–1902) which might more appropriately be put in Category:Internment camps of the British Empire. Japanese-run camps in Indonesia/Dutch East Indies during the 2nd world war could probably be excluded from this category too since they were of course not run while the Dutch were in power. However, the Dutch-run camps for Indonesian nationalist fighters during the Indonesian National Revolution post WWII would probably be appropriate for this category (Sabang camp, Krawang camp, and possibly on in Dutch-controlled Batavia, and probably regional ones, which have not yet been covered on Wikipedia as far as I can tell). For the case of Suriname, there was apparently the Jodensavanne#Internment_camp during WWII which was used to intern Nazi supporters deported from the Indies. How do you feel about that vis-a-vis your original question? I don't have a strong opinion about where these belong, I just created the category in parallel to the British Empire one. --Dan Carkner (talk) 19:48, 5 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Edit to add - I forgot to mention that I'm not actually sure if there were also internment camps in the Indies prior to Boven-Digoel, or other regional ones in the years after its establishment. I know in the 1910s there were mass interments of Sarekat Islam members by the Dutch but the ones I heard about were all in local prisons. --Dan Carkner (talk) 19:53, 5 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]