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A former Dutch Marine has confirmed that they were given orders to kill in 1977, even if the Molucans who hijacked a train surrendered. The hijacking lasted 20 days,two hostages and six hijackers were killed. Dutch correspondent Marten de Jongh reports.(This was the second train hijacking in the Netherlands the first one was hijacked in 1975, also by Moluccans)



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