# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lesley-rahman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:49:58.953Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lesley-rahman"
name: "Lesley Rahman"
slug: "lesley-rahman"
description: "The December murders were the murders on 7, 8, and 9 December 1982, of fifteen prominent young Surinamese men who had criticized the military dictatorship then ruling Suriname. Thirteen of these men were arrested on December 7 between 2 am and 5 am while sleeping in their homes. The other two were Surendre Rambocus and Jiwansingh Sheombar who were already imprisoned for attempting a countercoup in March 1982. Soldiers of Dési Bouterse took them to Fort Zeelandia, where they were heard as \"suspects in a trial\" by Bouterse and other sergeants in a self-appointed court. After these \"hearings\" they were tortured and shot dead. The circumstances remain unclear. On 10 December 1982, Bouterse claimed on national television that all of the detainees had been shot dead \"in an attempt to flee\"."
tagline: "Surinamese journalist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1954-09-24"
deathDate: "1982-12-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           33.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.668070666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Rahman"
    title: "Lesley Rahman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%B1%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "ليزلي رحمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B1%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "ليزلى رحمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Рахман, Лесли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Rahman"
    title: "Lesley Rahman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Rahman"
    title: "Lesley Rahman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13749896"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump