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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gerold Rozenblad

Suriname's ex-dictator faces final verdict in 1982 killings of political opponents. Some fear unrest

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Suriname’s former dictator will face a final verdict this month in the years-long judicial process over the 1982 killings of 15 political opponents that deeply scarred the South American country.

Desi Bouterse and two dozen others were accused of rounding up well-known people including lawyers, journalists and a university professor and executing them in a colonial fortress in the capital, Paramaribo.

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