Following the Bond van Militair Kader’s demand for the dismissal of army commander Henk Elstak, the government arrested Badrisein Sital, Laurens Neede and Ramon Abrahams and removed them from their military posts. Their trial was due to reach a verdict on 26 February. The arrests intensified a conflict over constitutional association rights, military hierarchy and civilian control; they help explain the immediate trigger but do not by themselves establish the later coup as a democratic or anticolonial movement.
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