Desi Bouterse (79): from army leader and dictator to president and convicted criminal

In the 1980s, he headed a military regime in Suriname that eliminated fifteen opponents, was convicted in absentia in the Netherlands in the 1990s for large-scale cocaine trafficking, was president of his country from 2010 to 2020 and was sentenced to prison at the end of last year. twenty years in prison for his role in the December murders in 1982. A portrait of the deceased Desiré (Desi) Delano Bouterse, according to Surinamese media.

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