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Re:Batavia shipwreck reveals a key to Dutch success in 17th-... by jsiepkes on Thursday November 04, 2021 @07:47AM (#29105903)
Yeah the story of the Batavia makes the Star Trek mirror universe empire seem like a bunch of boy scouts compared how the VOC ran things.

> Cornelisz and several of the major mutineers had both hands chopped off before being hanged.

> The remaining mutineers were taken to Batavia for trial. Five were hanged, while several others were flogged, keelhauled or dropped from the yardarm on the later voyage back home. Cornelisz' second in command, Jacop Pietersz, was broken on the wheel, the most severe punishment available at the time.

Though luck for Pelsaert because the VOC still thought that was too little too late:

> A board of inquiry decided that Pelsaert had exercised a lack of authority and was therefore partly responsible for what had happened.

Re:Batavia shipwreck reveals a key to Dutch success in 17th-... by satori99 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @08:56AM (#29106543)
Two of the mutineers were also left (to die) on the Australian mainland in 1628 -- 140 years before Australia was "Discovered" by James Cook.
Re:Batavia shipwreck reveals a key to Dutch success in 17th-... by dustintrex on Thursday November 04, 2021 @11:09AM (#29108139)
None of that seems particularly bad compared to the orgy of rape and murder orchestrated by Cornelisz and co, who are estimated to have killed 125 of the passangers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_(1628_ship)