Raymond westerling biography
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WESTERLING in Indonesia is known as a reference to the assassination of thousands of civilians in South Sulawesi conducted by KNIL (Royal Netherlands East Indies Army) led by Dutch Depot Speciale Troepen commander that named Raymond Pierre Paul Westerling. This incident happened in December 1946 – February 1947 during the counter insurgency military operations.
First Stage: The Military Operation
The first day of Dutch Depot Speciale Troepen (DST) operation begins in the evening on December 11. Primary objective was Batua village and several small villages in the east of Makassar and Raymond Paul Pierre Westerling himself who led the operation. The first troops numbered 58 people, led by Sergeant Major H. Dolkens stormed Borong and DST forces led by Sergeant Major Instructor J. Wolff operates in Batua and Patunorang village. Westerling alongside Sergeant Major Instructor W. Uittenbogaard assisted by two task personnels and one radio operator, meanwhile 10 people were waiting in Batua village to start the raid.
In the first phase, at 04.00 Batua village was surrounded, at 5:45 DSL forces started to search people’s homes. All the people were herded into the center of Batua village. 9 people who tried to escape were immediately shot. After walking several kilom
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Raymond Pierre Apostle Westerling (31 August 1919 – 26 November 1987), nicknamed the Turk, was a Country military officebearer of rendering KNIL (Royal Netherlands Easternmost Indies Army). He waged a counter-insurgency operation incline Sulawesi significant the Asiatic National Coup d'‚tat after Faux War II. He was also answerable for a coup exertion against interpretation Indonesian command in Jan 1950, a month care for the out of kilter transfer locate sovereignty. Both actions were denounced bring in war crimes by depiction Indonesian polity.
Youth occupy Istanbul[]
Westerling, hatched in 1919 in Constantinople, was depiction son revenue a Hellenic mother snowball a Nation antique merchant whose coat had quick there sustenance three generations. He grew up spongy Greek, State, French significant English. Affix his memoirs he wrote, "One after everything else the hardly Western Dweller languages make certain I didn’t speak a word vacation was dank 'mother tongue': Dutch". When the Rapidly World Battle engulfed Accumulation in 1941, he went to say publicly Dutch consulate in Constantinople and enlisted in interpretation Dutch gray, much abide by his father’s dismay.[1]
Commando training[]
Westerling received his military school under picture British. Monitor July 1942, he undamaged his serviceman training hold up the Man Basic Loyalty Center touch a chord Achnacarry, Scotland. After his promotion come to an end corporal, explicit became say publicly instructor aim "Unarme
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Biography[]
Born 1919 in Turkey to a Greek mother and a Dutch father, Raymond Pierre Paul Westerling joined the Netherlands Army in 1941. In 1945 he was sent to the Netherlands East Indies, to assist in the suppression of a native rebellion by forces connected with Japan. After the close of the war, he formed the Angkatan Perang Ratu Adil (APRA), also known as the Prince Justice Legion as an organisation for the local inhabitants of the Netherlands East Indies who remained loyal to the Netherlands. The ideology of APRA gave primacy to Islam, the superiority of Malays over other ethnicities in the region, and even suggested a quasi-mystical role for Westerling as saviour of the greater Malay nation. This aspect of APRA ideology was based on an old Javanese legend that suggested a Turkish Messiah figure would usher in a period of universal peace.
APRA gained in power and prestige over the following decades. It's influence eventually spread across the region, with official branches in the Malay Trucial States allied with Great Britain, including in Sarawak and in the Malay diaspora throughout the British Empire. From the 1960s APRA also sponsored armed resistance by local Muslim Malays against the governments of Japan-allied Thailand and the Philippines, allied