(Old page) East Indies Crisis - do not edit: Difference between revisions

The fall of Batavia is the name given to a period that starts on the 1st6th of DecemberApril 1976 and ended on the 11th of November 1976 the day the last Dutch ship with the last Dutch soldier left Batavia during the taking of the city by the EILF. It started when Prime minister Haverman excepted the plan called Vertrek-I. This would see the slow withdrawal of Dutch forces, both European Dutch and KNIL forces to key strategic area’s and from there a withdrawal would take place towards safe zones and from there they would be transported to the Netherlands. The plan on paper was good however in practice it became a messy affair that was chaotic and bloody, as many did not accept the KNIL in the last months of the war to go, rogue.