S4 - [ENCORE] - The Dutch Kill or Capture Every Lamay Islander

Today, the small island roughly 13 kilometers off the coast of
Pingtung County is called Xiaoliuqiu 琉球嶼. Some 400
years ago, however, many called it Lamay Island.





Shipwrecks in the seas around Formosa were common,
and survivors who made it ashore often found the native
peoples tolerated no incursions. After a few such incidents
involving the killing of people from Dutch ships by Lamay
Islanders, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) HQ in Batavia
(Jakarta) gave the Dutch colonists in Taiwan an order:
Completely depopulate Lamay Island.





The Dutch in Taiwan - not without reservations - followed this
order, and committed the worst atrocity against the
indigenous people during the Dutch colonial period in
Formosa. 





Note: This episode was originally published on 22 March,
2022