The Amboyna massacre[1] (also known as the Amboyna trial)[2] was the 1623 torture and execution on Ambon Island (present-day Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia) of twenty-one men, including ten in the service of the English East India Company, as well as Japanese and Portuguese traders and a Portuguese man,[3] by agents of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), on accusations of treason.[4] It was the result of the intense rivalry between the East India companies of England and the United Provinces in the spice trade and remained a source of tension between the two nations until late in the 17th century.
- ^ The old spelling for the name Amboina/Ambon is used, because "Amboyna massacre" is a common expression in the English language. For that reason the word "massacre" is retained, though the incident was not a massacre in the usual sense of the word.
- ^ Koekkoek, René (2024). "Rethinking the History of Reparations for Historical Injustices: An Early Modern Perspective". The Journal of Modern History. 96 (2): 253–290. doi:10.1086/730043. ISSN 0022-2801.
- ^ https://amzn.in/3fuCL7e History of East India Company by Hourly History ,page number: 8.
- ^ Shorto, p. 72.; State Papers, No. 499I