Roy Bottse

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]

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