# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/desi-bouterse
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:05:40.649Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/desi-bouterse"
name: "Dési Bouterse"
slug: "desi-bouterse"
description: "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."
tagline: "Leader of Suriname (1980–1987, 2010–2020)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1945-10-13"
deathDate: "2024-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.