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== The fall of Batavia ==
The march towards Batavia or the fall of Batavia as it’s sometimes called is the name given to the final months of the east indies crisis and the war its final period. The period came to an end on exactly 23:48 11 November 1976, when the last Dutch ship left the port of Batavia when the EILF finally took all of the city after a brutal siege.
Historians mark the start of the march towards Batavia when prime minister Haverman accepted the Krijgmacht her so-called Vetrek operation. The operation in detail laid out the withdrawal of Dutch & KNIL forces from the various theatres of operations in the archipelago. It was not a full withdrawal but rather a slow withdrawal that would see a pull-out and relocation overtime to strategic locations while increasing the air and naval attacks, in the end, it was planned out that from those final holdouts they would pull out entirely to safe zones. While on paper it was a good plan in practice once implemented it became a bloody affair as the fighting withdrawal was intense and the Dutch soldiers showed no mercy and in some cases the numerous KNIL units went rogue, creating cases where Dutch soldiers fought against KNIL forces.
This period of the war is considered one of the more brutal periods of the war in regards to the sheer amount of death and destruction that was carried out by both sides.
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