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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.
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The President of the Republic, Dési Bouterse, is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces ( Opperbevelhebber van de Strijdkrachten ).
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.
Bouterse is probably Suriname's most controversial figure.
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.
Among the 25 suspects Bouterse is the only main suspect.
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.
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 ".
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.
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 ),
Limburg is known as an influential propagandist of Bouterse for his many years of glorification of Bouterse on the Surinamese radio station Sky Radio.
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 ’ 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.
According to the cables Bouterse met Roger Khan several times in Nickerie at the house of MP Rashied Doekhi, who is prominent member of Bouterse's political party.
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 '.
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After the December murders ( 1982 ), Bouterse also closed the University of Suriname.
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.
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.
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.
The cables also report that Bouterse and Khan were plotting to assassinate then minister of Justice Chan Santokhi and attorney general Subhaas Punwasi.
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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.
On April 13, 2012, the public prosecutor in the December Murders trial would formulate the demanded sentence against 5 suspects including main suspect Bouterse, but Bouterse's lawyer, Irwin Kanhai, requested that the trial would be declared inadmissible because of the amnesty law.
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.
This would not be the first time that Bouterse accepted former convicts near him.
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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.
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 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.
* Dési Bouterse, Suriname's former military leader, sentenced to 16 years in prison and fined $ 2. 18 million in the Netherlands for cocaine trafficking.
The soldiers performing the action were under command of the leader of the army at that time, Dési Bouterse.
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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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Here he said that he was not killed because Bouterse told him that he was needed to cool down the temper of the unions who frequently held strikes at that time.
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In July 1999, Bouterse was convicted in absentia in the Netherlands to 11 years in prison for trafficking 474 kilograms of cocaine.
The opposition in the Surinamese parliament demanded that President Bouterse gave an explanation for the reports in the cables, but President Bouterse said that he will not respond to " rumours from Wikileaks ".
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.
Bouterse appointed Limburg as the only official press secretary for the President of Suriname.
* 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.
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On 11 November 1975, Bouterse returned to Suriname because he wanted to help build up the Surinamese army ( Bouterse returned to Suriname exactly two weeks before the country received its independence from the Netherlands ).
After the coup Bouterse initially sought support from Cuba, Grenada, Nicaragua, Venezuela and later from Libya.
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.
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.
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.
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 )
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