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PARAMARIBO (Reuters) -Suriname's fugitive former President Desi Bouterse has died aged 79, the country's government said on Wednesday, almost a year after he fled authorities to avoid jail ...
Bouterse was not a candidate for the presidency in the 2020 elections, and as no other candidates other than Chan Santokhi had been nominated by the deadline of 8 July 2020 at 15:00 (UTC−3), Santokhi was elected as his successor on 13 July in an uncontested election. Bouterse announced his retirement from politics [66] [67] on 16 July 2020 ...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Desi Bouterse, a military strongman who led a 1980 coup in the former Dutch colony of Suriname then returned to power by election three decades later despite charges of drug smuggling and murder, has died. He was 79.
Desi Bouterse, a dictator convicted of murder who twice ruled Suriname, has died at 79; Trial of man accused in Trump assassination attempt in Florida pushed back to September; Taliban say Pakistani airstrikes killed 46 people in eastern Afghanistan, mostly women and children; China and Japan agree to talks on security issues as they seek to ...
PARAMARIBO (Reuters) -A three-judge panel in Suriname on Wednesday upheld the conviction of former President Desi Bouterse for his role in the execution of 15 people in the former Dutch colony in ...
Bouterse, 78, dominated politics in the tiny South American country for decades, leading a coup in 1980 and finally leaving office in 2020. Bouterse, who had claimed the murdered men were ...
Dési Bouterse, 79, Surinamese politician, military officer, and convicted murderer, commander of the Armed Forces (1980–1990), chairman of the National Military Council (1980–1987) and president (2010–2020), liver failure. [621] Vladimir Burakov, 70, Russian politician. [622] Michael Burkard, 77, American poet and educator. [623]
After the election of Bouterse as president in August 2010, Parliament moved in 2012 to amend a 1992 amnesty law to include the period of the December murders. [10] [11] The amendment was signed into law in April 2012 by the vice president, and resulted in halting the murder trial against (among others) then-president Desi Bouterse.