1944: Zainal Mustafa, resister
Add comment October 25th, 2020 Headsman
On this date in 1944, the Japanese occupying Indonesia executed Zainal Mustafa with 17 of his followers.
The Javanese ulama had already been charged by the Dutch with provoking resistance to colonial rule by the time the Japanese moved in as the overseas overlord in March 1942.
Mustafa (English Wikipedia entry | Indonesian, which is the language of most links about him) was no more amenable to collaboration with the new bosses, and began constituting his students into a resistance militia.
After a February shootout with the santri in February 1944 that left a number of Japanese soldiers dead, the occupation came for him with overwhelming force and stuffed the prison at Tasikmalaya with 700 or more of them.
One of their number who survived the ordeal who rose to the brass of the Indonesian army later uncovered the details of his fate, including his secret execution. Mustafa was hailed as a National Hero of Indonesia in 1972.
On this day..
- 1974: Walkiria Afonso da Costa, the last Araguaia guerrilla - 2019
- 2009: Two Somali spies - 2018
- 1704: "French Peter" - 2017
- 1770: William Linsey, resolutely bent upon working wickedness - 2016
- 1781: Gaspard de Besse, social bandit - 2015
- 2014: Reyhaneh Jabbari - 2014
- Feast Day of Saints Crispin and Crispinian - 2013
- 2006: Danny Rolling, the Gainesville Ripper - 2012
- 330 B.C.E.: Philotas, Alexander the Great Companion - 2011
- 1769: Nicolas de Lafreniere and four others for the Louisiana Rebellion - 2010
- 1415: French prisoners at the Battle of Agincourt - 2009
- 2007: Five young men - 2008
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,History,Indonesia,Japan,Martyrs,Mass Executions,Occupation and Colonialism,Power,Religious Figures,Shot,Torture,Wartime Executions
Tags: 1940s, 1944, october 25, world war ii, zainal mustafa
Recent Comments