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Bouterse also appointed his son, Dino Bouterse, as head of the controversial semi police and semi military organization Counter Terror Unit ( CTU ), which, according to Bouterse, has the purpose to fight terrorism in Suriname.
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After the December murders ( 1982 ), Bouterse also closed the University of Suriname.
Bouterse is also believed to be the leader of the so-called Suri kartel which is held responsible for the trafficking and smuggling of large amounts of cocaine from Suriname and Brazil into Europe ( especially into the Netherlands ) in the 80s and 90s.
In April 2012, former fellow soldier of Bouterse and also suspect in the Decembermurders Ruben Rozendaal said that in the 80s and early 90s Bouterse supplied the FARC of Colombia with weapons in exchange for cocaine.
The chair of the Surinamese parliament, Jennifer Simons, who is also a member of the party of Bouterse, voted in favor of the law as well.
After becoming president, Bouterse also designated February 25, the anniversary of the coup d ’ état, as a national holiday.
old friend of Bouterse and also suspect in the December murders trial, Errol Alibux ( for his role as counselor of Bouterse ), vicar Steve Meye ( receiving payments for his role as Bouterse's " spiritual mentor ") and the journalist Clifton Limburg.
The cables also report that Bouterse and Khan were plotting to assassinate then minister of Justice Chan Santokhi and attorney general Subhaas Punwasi.
Bouterse and appointed
Bouterse appointed Limburg as the only official press secretary for the President of Suriname.
In December, 2010, Bouterse replied to a journalist, who asked why Dino was, despite his conviction, appointed as head of CTU, by saying: " Only the very best are placed in CTU and my son is among the very best ".
Bouterse and son
Bouterse's son, Dino Bouterse, was sentenced in 2005 to eight years imprisonment for international drug and arms trafficking.
In December, 2011, President Bouterse granted a pardon to his foster son Romano Meriba who in 2005 was convicted to 15 years imprisonment of murder and robbery of a Chinese trader in 2002.
Bouterse ’ s staff denied that the fact that Meriba is the foster son of President Bouterse played a role in the decision to grant the pardon, as there were strong legal arguments for the pardon.
According to rumors, after Meriba went out of jail he got employed at the heavily armed Counter Terror Unit ( CTU ), which is being led by Dino Bouterse, son of Desi Bouterse.
Bouterse and head
In this period Bouterse distinguished himself as sportsman and he was chosen as head of the basketball and football team.
Reportedly he was forced out of his car near Fort Zeelandia and shot in the head, with his body left outside the office of Desi Bouterse.
Reportedly he was forced out of his car near Fort Zeelandia and shot in the head, with his body left outside the office of Desi Bouterse.
Bouterse and controversial
Bouterse is probably Suriname's most controversial figure.
The controversial law now grants Bouterse and the 24 other suspects of the December Murders amnesty.
Bouterse and military
In 1980, the government of Henck Arron was overthrown in a military coup led by Sergeant-Major Desi Bouterse.
Shortly after the marriage, Bouterse moved to the Dutch military base in Seedorf, Germany.
In 1979, Bouterse accepted a request by Roy Horb to become chairman of a new Surinamese military union ( union BoMiKa ; Bond voor Militair Kader ).
On 7 and 8 December 1982, 15 young prominent Surinamese men who criticized Bouterse's military dictatorship were snatched from their beds and brought to Fort Zeelandia ( then headquarters of dictator Bouterse ) where they were tortured and shot dead.
The parliamentary voting was to be held on March 23, the same day Ruben Rozendaal testified in court that Bouterse himself killed 2 of 15 victims of the December Murders: union leader Cyrill Daal and military Soerindre Rambocus.
During the Suriname Guerrilla War ( 1986 – 1990 ) between the Surinamese military regime, headed by Dési Bouterse, and the Surinamese Liberation Army, a guerrilla group better known as the Jungle Commando, led by Bouterse's former bodyguard Ronnie Brunswijk, soldiers of Bouterse executed on 29 November 1986, at least 39 villagers of Moiwana.
In Bouterse ’ s delegation that visited a South American summit, two other members apart from Bouterse, had a criminal drug record: former military Etienne Boerenveen and Hans Jannasch.
Dési Bouterse, a former army officer and military dictator, and member of the Afro-Surinamese and Roman Catholic communities.
* Dési Bouterse, Suriname's former military leader, sentenced to 16 years in prison and fined $ 2. 18 million in the Netherlands for cocaine trafficking.
After the Surinamese independence in 1975, during the military government of Dési Bouterse in the 1980s, it was the scene of the " December murders " of 1982 and was used to hold and torture political prisoners.
Henck Alphonsus Eugène Arron ( 25 April 1936 Paramaribo – 4 December 2000 Alphen aan den Rijn ) was the Prime Minister of Suriname from 24 December 1973 to 25 February 1980, when he was overthrown in a military coup d ' état by Dési Bouterse.
In the war against the military regime of Desi Bouterse, Jungle Commando got a supply of money, weapons from a group of people who live in the Netherlands Suriname as organisasi buruh Motherbond, Paul Soemohardjo, and the Suriname National Liberation League ( Henk Chin a Sen )
The village was the scene of the Moiwana massacre on November 29, 1986, during the Suriname Guerrilla War between the Surinamese military regime, headed by Dési Bouterse and the Jungle Commando led by Ronnie Brunswijk.
Intend on playing a mediating role Oltmans traveled to Suriname to interview military dictator Bouterse.
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Desiré Delano " Dési " Bouterse () ( Domburg ( Wanica ), 13 October 1945 ) is the ninth President of Suriname.
Bouterse is the chairman of the Surinamese political combination Megacombinatie ( Megacombination ) and the leader of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ), which is part of the Megacombination.
In order to secure the votes necessary to become President, Bouterse cooperated with the party of his former archenemy, Ronnie Brunswijk, which had 7 seats and the Peoples Alliance party ( Volks Alliantie ) of Javanese leader Paul Somohardjo ( 6 seats ), who had left the ruling New Front party before the election.
Among the confidents were the wife of President Bouterse ( she is the first wife of a Surinamese president that receives payments for her role as first lady ),
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On 25 February 1980, Bouterse, Horb and fourteen other sergeants overthrew the Henck Arron government with a violent coup d ' état, which is now known as Sergeants Coup.
Bouterse was the leader of the Groep van zestien and after the coup Bouterse became chairman of the National Military Council of Suriname, which replaced the democratic government.
In April, 2012, two months before the verdict in the trial, Bouterse's party member Andre Misiekaba said, during a debate in the Surinamese parliament, that: " The December Murders trial is a political trial which has the purpose to eliminate Bouterse from the political arena and therefore the Amnesty Act is needed ".
On March 19, five members of Bouterse's political party Megacombinatie and one member of Paul Somohardjo's party Pertjajah Luhur proposed a law in the parliament, which in effect would grant amnesty for the suspects in the December Murders, including main suspect president Dési Bouterse.
NDP chairman Bouterse was elected President of Suriname on 19 July, 2010, after he won the 2010 elections with his Mega Combinatie of which the NDP was the dominant party.
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