S2-E3 - The Lamey Island Massacre

In 1622 and then again in 1631, crew members (including foraging
parties and shipwreck survivors) from Dutch ships were
killed by the aboriginal people on Lamey Island, what is today’s
Pingtung County’s Xiao Liuqiu (小琉球). The Dutch East India
Company’s regional headquarters in Batavia (Jakarta) sent orders
to the Dutch commanders on Taiwan to: “Completely depopulate
the island... as a warning to others!” And this, sadly, was
done. The Lamey islanders were killed or deported, mostly to
Taiwan but some ended up as far afield as Japan, Southeast Asia,
and Europe. A grisly tale, but one that deserves to be more
widely known.