De berechting van Desi Bouterse gaat door. De meldt de krijgsraad in Suriname. Bouterse staat terecht voor de Decembermoorden in 1982, toen 15 tegenstanders van het toenmalige militaire bewind van Bouterse werden geëxecuteerd.

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De cultuur van het inheemse Kari’navolk was ten dode opgeschreven. Tot een oud manuscript opdook in Leiden.

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Muddy footpaths wind past empty homes, most collapsing into ruins. Dozens of stores and bars have closed. The most prominent citizen, the chief of a tribe descended from escaped African slaves, has decamped to the capital.

A gold mine operated by a U.S.-based company opened recently in the rainforest of southern Suriname, bringing hundreds of jobs and badly needed revenue to a government struggling with some of the highest inflation in the world.

But it has also emptied out the nearest community, Langa Tabiki, a small frontier town with an outsized role in the history and culture of this South American nation, one that has depended heavily on wildcat mining.

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It is a South American nation in crisis: Businesses are closing, food prices are soaring and hospitals are running out of basic supplies such as paper towels and bandages.
No, this isn’t Venezuela but rather nearby Suriname, a multi-ethnic former Dutch colony where the economy is in freefall amid collapsing global commodity prices and the local currency’s resulting slide against the U.S. dollar.

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Renzo Tjon A Joe is from the smallest country in South America and going to the biggest sports competition on the planet. The 2016 Summer Olympics.

While the Olympic medal count is usually dominated by the world’s larger nations, the Games are equally as important for smaller countries. If Renzo wins a medal there are high hopes Suriname will finally get its first Olympic-sized swimming pool. It might even be named after him.

Om aan strafvervolging te ontkomen, zou president Desi Bouterse de noodtoestand kunnen uitroepen. Of hij dat inderdaad zal doen, is de vraag.

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De Krijgsraad in Suriname heeft de amnestiewet uit 2012 van tafel geveegd. Het proces tegen president Desi Bouterse over de Decembermoorden in 1982 gaat door.

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Suriname verkeert in economisch zwaar weer. Het land heeft te maken met lage prijzen voor de belangrijkste exportproducten olie en goud. Ook de lege schatkist van de overheid is een probleem. Inmiddels luidt De Vereniging van Medici in Suriname (VMS) de noodklok: er is een ernstig tekort aan medicijnen en dat kan mensenlevens gaan kosten.

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The Olympic torch has begun its journey from Greece to Brazil. Athletes all over the world are preparing hard for the Summer Games and not just the obvious nations.

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