MAYBE because we understood: the officials in charge of all this—those with the criteria about who should be buried there and who scrutinize the scant documents from the war-ravaged past—knew nothing at all about my father. And that was normal: thousands of people were imprisoned by the Dutch colonial government, many were exiled to Boven Digul in the 1920s, and then in the 1940s during the battle for independence, who knows how many