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Feb 4, 2008 · Paula van der Oest. Director. On 2 December 1975, a journalist is one of many passengers on the slow train that is kidnapped near Wijster by young South Moluccans. After some terrifying moments, he makes contact with the hijackers and starts acting as their go-between.
On 2 December 1975, seven South Moluccans seized a train with about 50 passengers on board in open countryside near the village of Wijster, halfway between Hoogeveen and Beilen in the northern part of the Netherlands. The hijacking lasted for 12 days and three hostages were killed.
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May 29, 2008 · The people in the train near Wijster were taken hostage by South Moluccan young men, who were desperately seeking attention for their situation from the Dutch government and the world. The story is told from the perspective of a Dutch journalist Rob, who was taken hostage.
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- Paula van der Oest
- 2008-05-29
On 2 December 1975, a journalist is one of many passengers on the slow train that is kidnapped near Wijster by young South Moluccans. After some terrifying moments, he makes contact with the hijackers and starts acting as their go-between.
On 2 December 1975, a journalist is one of many passengers on the slow train that is kidnapped near Wijster by young South Moluccans. After some terrifying moments, he makes contact with the hijackers and starts acting as their go-between.
- Paula Van Der Oest
On 4 December 1975, seven armed Moluccans raided the Indonesian consulate in Amsterdam in support of a train hijacking near the village of Wijster which had started two days before. After taking 41 hostages, including 16 children, the terrorists moved into the Indonesian consulate in Amsterdam, towards the top floor.
Feb 25, 2016 · The situation escalated; Moluccans hijacked a train near the town of Wijster, and in 1977 took a group of hostages at a school in Bovensmilde. During this crisis, Nanko was involved as negotiator between the hostage-keepers and the police, a role that he would revisit in many forms years later, when he made his way to Brazil.
