Tourist Attraction In MAKASSAR (5)

5).MAKAM 40.000 JIWA

Located in the north of Makassar city and not far from the Revised Toll Road, there is an area called 'Jalan Korban 40,000 Souls' according to stories circulating in the community, this place is a mass burial site for Makassar residents who were victims of the massacre of the Dutch invaders led by Captain Raymond Westerling in 1946-1947. Monument to the Victims of 40,000 South Sulawesi Souls'.  There are reliefs on the walls of the monument.  Also a statue with a stumped leg and only has one arm. So the monument and the name of the road actually did not reach that number (40,000 inhabitants).  But that number has a tremendous impact and the word 40,000 is a number uttered by Kahar Muzakar to arouse the international community in an effort to sue the Netherlands because there were human rights violations that were committed at that time .