Roy Bottse

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Roy Bottse
Personal information
NationalitySurinamese
BornRoy Paul Bottse
(1951-01-14) 14 January 1951 (age 74)
Suriname
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
SportMiddle-distance running
Event
800 metres

Roy Paul Bottse (born 14 January 1951) is a Surinamese middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 800 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics. [1]

Bottse was a lieutenant in both the Dutch and later the Suriname National Army. In 1979, he claimed that the Dutch Colonel Hans Valk  [ nl ] who was seconded to the Surinamese Army, asked him to prepare a coup d'état which Bottse refused. Colonel Valk denied ever making the request. [2] On 25 February 1980, there was a coup d'etat which became known as the Sergeants' Coup. The Sergeants were also in close contact with Colonel Hans Valk. [3]

Bottse left Suriname for the Netherlands and took up arms against the Surinamese regime in the 1980s. In preparation for a counter-coup against the regime, Bottse was interviewed by CNN in French Guiana. [4] The counter-coup failed, because the group was arrested in French Guiana, and returned to the Netherlands. [5]

Now a lawyer, Bottse was a candidate for Partido MAN in the 2016 Curaçao general election. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Roy Bottse Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
  2. ↑ "Valk vroeg mij de macht over te nemen". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden via Delpher (in Dutch). 1 August 1983. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  3. ↑ Caribbean Review (1980). "The Year of the Sergeants". University of Florida. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  4. ↑ "CNN report". Youtube.com. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  5. ↑ "Surinamers moesten verzet organiseren". Reformatorisch Dagblad via Digibron (in Dutch). 30 March 1984. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  6. ↑ Roy Bottse op MAN-lijst


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