Word: bouman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WILMA BOUMAN Holland, Mich...
Dutch Lawyer Herman Bouman, who opened for the defense, was accused of being a criminal accomplice in the case he was defending. After police badgered him and searched his home, he fled to Holland, leaving his wife Mieke behind. The Indonesians announced that Bouman's flight proved his guilt, and the prosecution pointed an implicating finger at Bouman's wife "since especially in Western society, it is not possible that a man goes abroad without his wife knowing...
Wife Mieke, a teacher of Latin and Greek and no lawyer, was not cowed. When other Dutch lawyers refused to defend Jungschlaeger in such circumstances, she took over the case. Indonesian mobs threw garbage at her, chanted "Dutch bitch" when they saw her. But Mieke Bouman doggedly carried on, and has become a heroine in The Netherlands...
Thieves for Witnesses. Being a stranger to orderly legal procedure did not hurt Mieke Bouman: so was the court. Two prosecution witnesses testified in court that they had given evidence under duress. One witness was a convicted thief...