The Killing of Brigadier General A.W.S. Mallaby in Allied Duty in Surabaya 1945

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10.2991/assehr.k.201014.079How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mallaby, Battle of Surabaya, Contact Bureau

Abstract

Research into the killing of Brigadier General A.W.S. Mallaby in Surabaya is still interesting because there is still controversy over who committed the murder. This study examined the events that had occurred on the killing of Mallaby in Surabaya in the Allied assignment of 1945. The Historical method was used by analyzing several sources, especially autobiography and biography of Ruslan Abdulgani as the perpetrators in the event, a source of the 1945 newspaper published from the Netherlands, the sources of the work of the survey results of the perpetrators of the events of 1945, and also several sources in National History as a complement. Mallaby along with British troops arrival evoke the battle of Surabaya for 3 days and it was subsided after Sukarno conducting to ceasefire agreement in Surabaya. When Mallaby and the British Officer along with the Bureau Contact wanted to cool down the battle atmosphere in the area of the Internatio Building, ceasefire negotiation was neglected, instead the British Army / Ghurka who were in the building prepared mortars in front of the window, to be directed to the crowd of mass and representatives of the Contact Bureau that surrounding the Mallaby’s car. The mortar shelling was actually intended to trigger Indonesian people who were awaiting the negotiations and could have bring out Mallaby who was a prisoner during the negotiations. However, due to mortar fire the British troops instead led to a counterattack with grenades and mortars from the Indonesian youths which caused chaotic, then the car that rode by Mallaby was exploding, and killed Mallaby on Wednesday 30 October 1945 around 20:30 in West Indonesia Time. If this condition is the cause of Mallaby’s death, then it is clear that Mallaby’s death was not the result of a British army grenade shot, because the British soldiers in the International Building would have known Mallaby’s position in the car and it would not be possible to direct the grenade shot at the car that Mallaby was sitting on, if it happened it would called suicide.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sumarno
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AU  - Septina Alrianingrum
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/10/15
TI  - The Killing of Brigadier General A.W.S. Mallaby in Allied Duty in Surabaya 1945
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 371
EP  - 376
SN  - 2352-5398
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