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The Japanese Occupation of Sumatra (1942-5) not only eliminated the Dutch colonial government, but threatened the position of the Sultans in East Sumatra and Ulèebalang aristocracy in Aceh. In the power vacuum following the Japanese surrender in 1945-6, nationalist, marxist and Islamic popular forces killed or captured these traditional elites, in a process neither the occupying Allied Forces nor the Government of the Indonesian Republic could control.
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This page is a summary of: The Blood of the People, March 2014, JSTOR,
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv1qv3jz.
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