Suriname court convicts President Bouterse of murder for 1982 executions

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/suriname-court-convicts-president-bouterse-of-murder-for-1982-executions/ar-BBXx54t?li=AAggFp4
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PARAMARIBO (Reuters) - A court in Suriname on Friday convicted President Desi Bouterse of murder for the execution of 15 opponents in 1982 during an earlier term as military ruler of the South American country after he and other soldiers led a violent coup to seize power.

The court sentenced Bouterse, who is currently in China on an official visit, to 20 years in prison.

Bouterse has dominated much of the history of Suriname since its 1975 independence from the Netherlands. He led the country of 560,000 people through the 1980s, assumed office again in 2010 and secured re-election five years later.

The military court on Friday ruled that Bouterse had overseen an operation in which soldiers under his command abducted 16 leading government critics - including lawyers, journalists and university teachers - from their homes and killed 15 of them at a colonial fortress in Paramaribo

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See MoFo, in democracies you are not above the law. These murders were committed in the name of neo-liberalism. Here comes your Lock him Up!!

Look and learn Don the Con & ReTHUGs - go kill someone on Fifth Avenue.