René Roemersma

René Roemersma (* 27. March 1958 ) is a retired Dutch , left anti- apartheid - activists and gained international press attention as the only member convicted and alleged leader of the Dutch terrorist group " Revolutionary Anti-Racist Action (RaRa)" .

Act

Roemersma was arrested in Amsterdam on April 11, 1988 , and charged with being linked to the RaRa attacks. The RaRa attacks are a series of arson attacks on the Dutch-German supermarket chain Makro , branches of Forbo Holding and Shell petrol stations. The aim of these attacks was to induce the relevant companies to withdraw from South Africa and thus to set an example in the fight against the imperialist system , which is maintaining the apartheid regime in South Africa due to political and economic interests. This strategy was successful at both Makro and Forbo. Roemersma was arrested along with 7 other suspects and a little later sentenced to 5 years imprisonment, among other things for arson . On appeal, the Amsterdam court ruled that the evidence used in the original verdict was illegally obtained. As a result, his sentence was reduced to 18 months.

From 2005 to 2006 Roemersma worked at the Panos Institute in Paris for which he attended the OECD conference Deepening Voice and Accountability to Fight Poverty: a Dialogue of Communication Implementers on May 30 and 31, 2006 . In 2006 he worked for NiZA (Dutch Institute for South Africa ) and as an observer of the 2006 election in the Congo . Together with Jolien Schure, he then published the book Verkiezingen in Congo, over loze beloftes en tellen tot diep in de Nacht ( elections in the Congo, about false promises and counting late into the night ). In 2007 he was involved in setting up the Latin American radio network "ALER" in Ecuador . The aim was to increase the population's participation in democracy through improved communication.

literature

• F. Hoekstra: In dienst van de BVD / druk 1: spionage en contraspionage in Nederland , Boom Onderwijs (2004), ISBN 90-8506-023-0
• Rene Roemersma, Jolien Schure, Verkiezingen in Congo, over loze beloftes en tellen tot diep in the night . ISBN 978-90-78028-10-9

Web links

• De Telegraaf, 15 Aug 2008, "Duyvendak in harde kern RaRa" Dutch
• Het dossier RaRa (1985–1993) Dutch

Individual evidence

1. ^ New African , Issues 256-257, IC Magazines Ltd., 1989, p. 126
2. ^ African Analysis, No. 56, 1988
3. ^ ^{A b} The Telegraph - Sep 10, 1988, p.8 - Anti Apartheid activists turn saboteurs
4. ↑ Cees Banning, Jos Verlaan: Veranderde tijden - Terugblick op de harde acties van toen , NRC Handelsblad Zaterdag & Cetera  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , (of August 16, 2008, pp. 6-7)  
5. ↑ New African, Issues 244-255, IC Magazines Ltd., 1988, p 40
6. Jump up ↑ John Tamerus, Peter Horsten, Edwin van den Bogert: Terrorisme ontrafeld , Kluwer, 2007, p. 71
7. ↑ Alex Peter Schmid, Albert J. Jongman, AJ Jongman: Political Terrorism: A New Guide to Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, and Literature , Transaction Publ; April 30, 2005, ISBN 1-4128-0469-8 , p. 625
8. ↑ De Telegraaf, 15 Aug 2008, "Duyvendak in harde kern RaRa"
9. ↑ Summary Note: Deepening Voice and Accountability to Fight Poverty: A Dialogue of Communication Implementers , March 30 - 31, 2006 Paris, France (www.oecd.org) (PDF; 153 kB)
10. ↑ Nederlands instituut voor Zuidelijk Afrika: Verkiezingen in Congo , Feb. 2007, ISBN 978-90-78028-10-9 . (Dutch, online ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , PDF)