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Review — Suriname's Agricultural Guinea Pigs

Summary by DWTonline.com
At a time when the Netherlands is increasingly critical of its colonial past, a book has been published about the Toegoenezen, a small Javanese community with Portuguese roots. Their treatment in the past is far from worthy of a tribute: after many wanderings, they were finally sent by the Dutch to Suriname some sixty years ago as agricultural guinea pigs to conduct an experiment on the dilapidated Slootwijk plantation in the Commewijne district…
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At a time when the Netherlands is increasingly critical of its colonial past, a book has been published about the Toegoenezen, a small Javanese community with Portuguese roots. Their treatment in the past is far from worthy of a tribute: after many wanderings, they were finally sent by the Dutch to Suriname some sixty years ago as agricultural guinea pigs to conduct an experiment on the dilapidated Slootwijk plantation in the Commewijne district…

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DWTonline.com broke the news in on Saturday, November 8, 2025.
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