Mergosono massacre

Mergosono massacre
Part of the Indonesian National Revolution
LocationMalang, East Java, Dutch East Indies
Date31 July 1947 (1947-07-31)
Attack type
massacre
Deaths30[1]
VictimsChinese community of Mergosono
PerpetratorsIndonesian revolutionaries

The Mergosono massacre (Indonesian: Pembantaian Mergosono) of 31 July 1947 was committed by Indonesian revolutionaries against members of the Chinese community of Mergosono in Malang, East Java during the Bersiap period of the Indonesian National Revolution. Suspected of espionage for the Dutch colonial authorities, 30 Chinese men and women were rounded up, tortured, and burned, before being buried at a former cannery. The bodies were exhumed and reburied in a mass grave on 3 August the same year.[1]

  1. ^ a b Kwee Thiam Tjing (2004). Indonesia dalam Api dan Bara, Elkasa, Jakarta. ISBN 9799836719.