ACEH: THE FORGOTTEN DUTCH WAR

Five elderly Acehnese look back on the Dutch colonization of Aceh. The Dutch-Acehnese War (1873-1942) forms one of the darkest chapters of Dutch history. The conflict between merciless Dutch counterinsurgents and fiercely Islamic Acehnese would eventually claim approximately 100.000 lives. In five portraits of elderly people throughout Aceh, all photographed in their own homes, you get a look into history and present time in the same time. These are people who survived the Dutch era, and still have memories about this largely forgotten war. They connect the present to the past.