Dési Bouterse
Leader of Suriname (1980–1987, 2010–2020)
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- Momentum1.6
- Politicians rank#192
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- Fame56.0
- Momentum1.6
- Politicians rank#192
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Lived 1945–2024, aged 79
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Updated 2026-06-10
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.
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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 mur…
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