# Dési Bouterse

> A military coup leader who returned as an elected president, then died a fugitive. Convicted of massacring political opponents in 1982, trafficking cocaine, and directing a village massacre — yet he held power in Suriname for decades across three separate rules.

*Leader of Suriname (1980–1987, 2010–2020)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/desi-bouterse

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Born:** 1945-10-13
- **Died:** 2024-12-23
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Bouterse seized control of Suriname in a 1980 military coup and ruled as dictator until 1987. In December 1982, fifteen political dissidents were murdered under his command — the killings that would shadow him for life. He led again briefly from 1990 to 1991, then founded the National Democratic Party. In 1999, a Dutch court sentenced him in absentia to eleven years for trafficking 474 kilograms of cocaine; he called the conviction a frame-up. He was elected president in 2010 and served a full decade, shielded by office from arrest. In 2019 he was sentenced to twenty years for the December murders; in 2023 another twenty-year sentence came for the 1986 Moiwana massacre against a Maroon village during the Interior War. When ordered to prison in early 2024, he vanished. He died on the run in December 2024, age seventy-nine.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 56.0 / 100
- **Momentum:** 1.6 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 23.7 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #192

## Topics
#Politicians, #Politician, #Politics, #20th Century

## Sources
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9si_Bouterse)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57667)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/D%C3%A9si%20Bouterse)
- [ديزي بوترس](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3)
- [ديزى بوترس](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3)
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