Desi Bouterse News Today

The families of Surinamese activists slain for their opposition to the government in the 1980s say decades of suffering and sluggish legal proceedings have been prolonged by the apparent inability of authorities to locate the man at the center of it all: former President Desi Bouterse. 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 connected to an invasio...

Desi Bouterse is a former strongman who led two coups and also served as an elected president of Suriname until 2020

Paramaribo, Suriname: An arrest warrant has been issued for Suriname s ex president Desi Bouterse, who has refused to surrender to start serving a 20...

Suriname police issue alert for “missing” Desi Bouterse

The Surinamese police have published a bulletin in their search for Desi Bouterse, publishing his photo and description. The former president failed to report for his prison sentence for his role in the December murders and has disappeared.

Paramaribo, Suriname: An arrest warrant has been issued for Suriname s ex president Desi Bouterse, who has refused to surrender to start serving a 20...

The Surinamese police issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for Suriname’s former president, Desi Bouterse, who was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for the killings of 15 opponents.

Former Surinamese President Desi Bouterse has become a fugitive from justice after he escaped a prison sentence for his involvement in the murder of 15 activists in 1982.

Former Suriname dictator Desi Bouterse, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison last month for the 1982 killings of more than a dozen political opponents, has vanished after not turning himself in to authorities on Friday as planned. His wife, Ingrid Bouterse-Waldring, told reporters that she did not know where he was and firmly…

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP): Former Suriname dictator Desi Bouterse, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison last month for the killings of 15 political opponents, has vanished after not turning himself in to authorities on Friday as planned. His...