It is always good to receive some feedback from an author to comments on OLO, nalood100.

It was the statement made in the fifth paragraph of the article that attracted my use of the term 'guilt-trip', not the work of the Dutch historians you mention in your post, but that were unmentioned by name in the article. That statement was:

"But last September [2011] history ended up in
the court room and a court verdict in The Hague
found the Dutch state responsible for carrying
out a massacre of over 300 unarmed Indonesians
in 1947 in the village of Rawagede, Indonesia,
and called on the state to award compensation to
the plaintiffs – seven elderly widows of those massacred."

An account written by one Elizabeth van Kampen, dated 31 March 2007, contains the following statement that may help shed some light on the issues you raise:

"The Netherlands had two enemies during World War Two,
Germany and Japan. But the Dutch people only speak about
the Germans. I can’t even remember how many books I have
read about the enemy Germany. It was only in 1995 that I
really began to read about the other enemy, Japan. Mostly
written in English of course, because the Netherlands
doesn’t really see Japan as their former enemy.

That is also the very reason why I wrote this website in
English, with many mistakes and all. I tried to tell the
story of the Japanese occupation in the former Dutch East
Indies, because it is a quite unknown story. I tried to tell
about the consequences of that very cruel Japanese military
occupation of the former Dutch East Indies. There are many
trauma’s people had and still have from that occupation.
What made it worse, is that Japan doesn’t acknowledge their
atrocities from during World War Two and that the Netherlands
is absolutely not interested in what the Japanese did to the
Dutch in the former Dutch East Indies."

http://www.dutch-east-indies.com/story/index.htm (on the last of the 73-page account)

Any chance of a link to the 'de Volkskrant' photos you mention?

Still not sure what you mean by guilt-trip Forest Gump. I hope you are not saying that because many Dutch suffered a great deal from the Japanese we should not bother investigating how Indonesians might have suffered from the Dutch. Anyway, here is what you requested.
De Volkskrant: http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/article/detail/3284391/2012/07/10/EerstefotosooitvanexecutiesNederlandslegerinIndie.dhtml

The Television: http://nieuwsuur.nl/onderwerp/393495-opgedoken-fotos-van-executies-indie.html

The radio (this one provides a slide show showing the album containing the photos) :http://www.rnw.nl/nederlands/article/opgedoken-fotos-veranderen-kijk-op-nederlands-indi%C3%AB

Thank you for the links, nalood100. One of the comments shown within the webpage to which the third link delivers one illustrates perfectly why I asked for them. It is a comment, in English, by one Theodorus van Diest from Australia, made on 13 July 2012, which says:

"My father served in the Knil army in Indonesia.
One of the photos of airmen in the above album
looks very familiar. Does anyone know how I can
access more photos from this album? Can anyone
give me other websites where I can view photos
from this era?"

Many former residents of the then Dutch East Indies settled in Australia during, or shortly after, the period during which Indonesia gained its independence. It is from among their descendents that it is possible you might obtain more insight, and/or corroborating evidence, as to the events of which you speak. I am assuming it is for reasons of this nature that you have published the article on OLO.

My only familiarity with this transition period arises from study of the (relatively unknown in Australia) military history, from an Australian perspective, of the Malayan campaign of WW2 which culminated in the fall of Singapore. (I have no Dutch antecedents nor relatives by marriage.) From works like Lynette Silver's 'The Bridge at Parit Sulong' I have become aware of the extreme difficulty of pinning down responsibility for wartime atrocities, no matter by whom committed.

Just a little searching on the internet with respect to both the Rawagede and Sulawesi massacres of Indonesians by Dutch colonial forces reveals that the identities of the (KNIL) commanders responsible for ordering them have been known from the outset. Likewise that searching revealed that it was part of the negotiated end to the colonial regime on the part of both Dutch and Indonesian governments that there would be no pursuit as to blame for atrocities, war crimes, call them what you will, that may have been committed by either side in the conflict.

Perhaps therin lies the explanation for the apparent Dutch 'amnesia' up until the present.

The opening paragraph of the article includes the statement:

"... the Dutch state mobilized the largest army
in its history and fought a war against the
Indonesian independence movement."

Again, some relatively cursory searching on the internet revealed the curious, in that context, claim that it was unconstitutional for the Dutch government in Holland to conscript troops for service in the then Netherlands East Indies. How then was this 'largest army in Dutch history' mobilized?

The explanation that most readily springs to my mind is that, in the immediate aftermath of the WW2 occupation of Holland and the accompanying destruction thereof, many men of military age (and perhaps conscripted in Holland) must have effectively volunteered for service in the KNIL as the only paid employment on offer at the time. Universal military service was, I understand, an obligation imposed upon all male Dutch colonial residents in the then NEI, but was it an obligation in Holland? Was it a combination of these circumstances that created 'the largest army in Dutch history', one that was perhaps not seen as being nearly so big from the perspective, or in the memory, of the Dutch in Holland?

nalood100 asks: "I hope you are not saying that because many Dutch suffered a great deal from the Japanese we should not bother investigating how Indonesians might have suffered from the Dutch." The answer is no, not at all, but I am concerned as to which Dutch are to be deemed as needing to confront this little known history: the descendants of a diaspora of a colonial regime long gone with the wind, or the descendants of those in Holland who at the time neither knew, nor were able effectively to direct, policy in a part of the world that had suffered such then recent upheaval.

Is this all about funding academe? Historians having:

"... called for the government to fund a large scale
research project that would systematically look at the
behavior of the Dutch military in Indonesia during the
years 1945-1950 and examine the role of the Dutch
political elite in the conflict."