On the second Tuesday of every month, a group of elderly Dutch men and women gather in front of the Japanese Embassy here.
They show up at its front gate to participate in a peaceful demonstration demanding an apology and financial compensation.
They are part of an estimated 140,000 Dutch held prisoner in Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, during World War II. About 12,000 of them died in the camps.
"We have been holding demonstrations for over five years," said Ben Bouman, 77, head of the Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debts, which represents Dutch war victims of the Japanese occupation of the region.