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Bouterse always denied being guilty and reacted to the verdict by stating that the star witness in his case, Patrick van Loon, was bribed by the Dutch government.
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Bouterse and always
Bouterse always denied being guilty and defended his conviction by claiming that the star witness in the case, Patrick van Loon, was bribed by the Dutch government.
Desi Bouterse always denied being guilty of murdering any of those 15 men, however, he did later accept political responsibility, but he says he is not the one who ' pulled the trigger '.
Bouterse and denied
Bouterse did, however, accept political responsibility, but still denied any direct involvement.
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.
* July 22-A few hours after having been sworn in, LPF's State Secretary for Social Affairs and Work Opportunity ( Staatssecretaris van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid ) Philomena Bijlhout resigns after evidence was presented that she had been a member of a militia of Dési Bouterse in Suriname in 1982 and 1983, something she had denied until that moment.
Bouterse and being
In an interview with Al Jazeera in 2009 Bouterse said that the trial is being used by his political opponents to prevent him from running for office again and for their own political gain.
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.
In the December murders trial that commenced on November 30, 2007 there were 25 suspects with Desi Bouterse being the only main suspect.
Bouterse and reacted
President Bouterse was unmoved by this decision and reacted by saying: " I never asked you 20 million euro, we have economic reserves of almost 800 million dollars ".
Bouterse and verdict
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 ".
Bouterse and by
In 1980, the government of Henck Arron was overthrown in a military coup led by Sergeant-Major Desi Bouterse.
The Bouterse government violently tried to suppress the insurgency by burning villages and other similar means.
In 1979, Bouterse accepted a request by Roy Horb to become chairman of a new Surinamese military union ( union BoMiKa ; Bond voor Militair Kader ).
From the beginning of the dictatorship until 1988, the titular presidents were essentially army-installed by Bouterse, who ruled as a de facto leader of Suriname.
In a document from 2006 from the American embassy ( published by Wikileaks ) there are reports of a possible connection in the past of Bouterse and the FARC.
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.
After the return of democratic government, led in succession by Ronald Venetiaan, Jules Wijdenbosch, and Venetiaan again, Bouterse tried repeatedly to return to power through elections.
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 ".
Although the formal Dutch-based educational system repressed its use, Sranan became more accepted by the establishment over time, especially during the 1980s when it was popularized by Suriname's then dictator ( now President ) Desi Bouterse who often delivered national speeches in Sranan.
It was founded on 4 July, 1987 by then dictator of Suriname Dési Bouterse.
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.
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.
Bouterse and van
The President of the Republic, Dési Bouterse, is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces ( Opperbevelhebber van de Strijdkrachten ).
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.
Bouterse and was
On 19 July 2010, Bouterse was elected as President of Suriname with 36 of 50 parliament votes and on 12 August 2010 he was inaugurated.
According to Wikileaks cables released in 2011, Bouterse was active in the drug trade till 2006.
In this period Bouterse distinguished himself as sportsman and he was chosen as head of the basketball and football team.
In July 1999, Bouterse was convicted in absentia in the Netherlands to 11 years in prison for trafficking 474 kilograms of cocaine.
According to the United Nations Convention against illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, since Bouterse was convicted before his election as Head of State in 2010 he has no immunity.
Although Bouterse was convicted in the Netherlands for cocaine trafficking, he has remained free in Suriname.
Bouterse's son, Dino Bouterse, was sentenced in 2005 to eight years imprisonment for international drug and arms trafficking.
Years later Bouterse said that he was not present at the moment of the killings.
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.
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.
On July 19, 2010, Bouterse was elected as President of Suriname with 36 of the 51 votes ; he was installed to the office on August 12, 2010.
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.
Wikileaks cables released in 2011 reveal that Bouterse was involved in drug-trafficking till 2006.
Bouterse was elected on 19 July 2010 and inaugurated on 12 August at the Anthony Nesty Sporthal ( formerly known as National Indoor Stadium ).
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.
Bouterse and Dutch
Shortly after the marriage, Bouterse moved to the Dutch military base in Seedorf, Germany.
Bouterse and government
* February 25 – A coup in Suriname ousts the government of Henck Arron ; leaders Desi Bouterse and Roy Horb replace it with a National Military Council.
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.
On December 10, Bouterse stated on STVS television channel that 15 arrested " suspects who were plotting to overthrow the government later in December were shot dead while trying to flee Fort Zeelandia ".
The Inter-American Court of Human rights has judged that the responsible persons have to be prosecuted and punished, however previous governments, and Bouterse ’ s current government have failed to do so.
In January, 2011, the morning newspaper Dagblad Suriname revealed that some confidants of President Bouterse were put on the payroll of the government.
The Jungle Commando fought a guerrilla war against the Surinamese government of Dési Bouterse in the 1980s, before a truce was negotiated in March 1991.
After the 2010 Parliamentary elections, won by Bouterse, then-president Ronald Venetiaan refused to even mention Bouterse's name or congratulate him ; Venetiaan, the Minister of Education in the government of Henck Arron, prime minister of the government overthrown by Bouterse, was a personal friend of most of the fifteen victims.
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