Desi Bouterse, a military strongman who led a 1980 coup in the former Dutch colony of Suriname and then returned to power by election three decades later despite charges of drug smuggling and ...

Desi Bouterse, a military strongman who led a 1980 coup in the former Dutch colony of Suriname, then returned to power by election three decades later despite charges of drug smuggling and murder ...

Outside of its troops, Suriname also has a total of 3 aircraft, 650 military vehicles, as well as 16 ships and/or submarines at its disposal. Despite not mustering a sizable military force ...

He stayed in the military after Suriname gained its independence in 1975, which enabled him to lead the military coup five years later. Bouterse was a graduate of the Royal Military School in the ...

Bouterse's closest supporters, also in military uniform ... five years after Suriname, on the northeastern coast of South America, gained independence following three centuries of Dutch occupation ...

Suriname (AP) — Desi Bouterse, a military strongman who led a 1980 coup in the former Dutch colony of Suriname then returned to power by election three decades later despite charges of drug ...

Government authorities had agreed to let him serve his 20-year sentence in a purpose-built isolated detention cell at the Suriname Military Hospital complex near downtown Paramaribo. But Bouterse ...

He graduated from the Royal Military School and served at several Dutch army bases in the Netherlands and Germany. Bouterse returned to Suriname two weeks before it became an independent republic ...