Giles Milton
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first heard May 2026
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And thus begins one of the most
brutal episodes in the history of the Bandar Islands where Jan Kern and his Dutch troops simply come ashore.
They arrest all of the key headmen of these islands and using Japanese mercenaries, very interestingly, they have a band of Japanese executioners who they use to do the dirtiest of their dirty work, who simply round up the headmen and have them all decapitated.
How have they come into the picture?
Where have they got their samurai from?
No, no, it's worth recalling, of course, by this point, you know... The Dutch have got to Japan.
The Dutch and the English have got to Japan.
And the Portuguese.
And the Portuguese, long before the Dutch and English, in fact, yeah.
They've got to Japan.
They've formed trading bases there as well.
The Dutch rather more successfully than the English, it had to be said.
But of course, Japanese are also travelling over this area of the East Indies and the Dutch bring them onto their payroll, if you like, and use them as hired mercenaries and executioners.
And so they play a key role in this genocide that takes place in the Bander Islands.
They're the ones that execute all the headmen.
Indeed, they're shipped off all over the place.
But what's kind of remarkable is the population of the Bandar Islands in this period, the sort of 1620s, early 1620s, was about 15,000 native Bandanese.
By the time Yankern has finished his genocide, there are fewer than a thousand left on the Bandar Islands.
It's an extraordinarily sweeping genocide that really wipes out the native population.
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