Suriname's government announced Saturday that the small South American nation will not hold a state funeral for its ...
Former Surinamese dictator Desi Bouterse has died at 79. PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Desi Bouterse, a military strongman who ...
He took power in a military coup in 1980 and later served as the country’s president. He was also convicted of ordering the ...
Police ordered an autopsy Thursday on the body of former Suriname president Desi Bouterse, after launching an investigation into the transfer of his remains from an unknown location where he was ...
Bouterse, who evaded justice for 1982 execution of political opponents, died with in-absentia convictions for cocaine ...
Desi Bouterse, a former dictator and later president of Suriname who was convicted of murder and drug trafficking, died on ...
disrupting life in Suriname. Ronnie Brunswijk, a former bodyguard of Bouterse, took up arms in 1986 in a bid to oust the dictator. For six years, the country’s jungles were torn by a civil war ...
Suriname's former dictator and later president Desi Bouterse has died, the government of the former Dutch colony announced ...