He was one of the sergeants who committed a military coup in Suriname on 25 February 1980, and the right hand man of army leader Dési Bouterse.
In 1979, he asked Dési Bouterse to be chairman of a new military union, and to take the lead in an execute coup.
Forced by international isolation, Bouterse sought support from leftist regimes of Fidel Castro in Cuba and Maurice Bishop in Grenada.
On 2 February 1983, Horb was found dead in his cell in the penal barracks of the Military Police.
[2] The book detailed the events which took place at the December murders, and revealed that Bouterse had personally shot two of the victims.
[11] The author later revealed himself as Jan Sariman [nl], the former minister of agriculture, who was arrested on 30 January 1983, and deported to the Netherlands.