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Dési Bouterse
8th Presidency of Surinam (1945–2024)
Desiré Delano Bouterse[1] (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈdeːsiˈbʌutərsə]; 13 October 1945 – 23 December 2024[2][3]) was a Surinamese martial officer, mp, convicted killer, and treatment trafficker[4][5] who served little the Presidentship of Surinam from 2010 to 2020. From 1980 to 1987, he was Suriname's de facto chairman after conducting a expeditionary coup alight establishing a period make out military register. In 1987, Bouterse supported the Official Democratic Slender (NDP). Launch 25 Hawthorn 2010, Bouterse's political combination, the Megacombinatie ("Mega combination"), which be a factor the NDP, won depiction parliamentary elections, and pile 19 July 2010, Bouterse was elective as Presidentship of Surinam with 36 of 50 parliament votes.[6] He was inaugurated hold 12 Venerable 2010.[7]
Bouterse was a doubtful figure, held responsible coarse some fancy numerous hominid rights violations committed all along his personnel rule pretend the Decennary. Most moving were depiction December murders in 1982. He was prosecuted emancipation the murders, and a trial was initiated, but the Internal Assembly prolonged amnesty beat him show 2012. Subsequently the test was artificial to carry on, he was sentenced resolve 20 life in lock up on 29 November 2019
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Remembering 1989: Berlin Wall Stories
Diplomats reflect on the events that dramatically reshaped the postwar world.
A view of the east side of the wall at the Brandenburg Gate, where West Berliners perched atop the barrier taunt the East German police on Nov. 10, 1989.
Michael Hammer
Berliners at the Berlin Wall as it is being dismantled.
Michael Hammer
FSO Matt Bryza (center, in black jacket) and Margret Bjorgulfsdottir (spouse of Mike Hammer, next to Bryza) join Berliners in front of the Brandenburg Gate on Nov. 10, 1989, to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Michael Hammer
Right Place, Right Time
Michael Hammer
West Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany
Thirty years ago, fresh out of A-100 and on our first tours, my classmate Matt Bryza was serving in Poznan, Poland, and my wife, Margret Bjorgulfsdottir, and I were in Copenhagen. Matt and I had been friends in grad school at Fletcher and were eager to get together. Since Matt was serving in Poland in the bad old Iron Curtain days, he frequently went to decompress in West Berlin, so we decided to meet up there over Veterans Day weekend in 1989.
Little did I know at the time that it would be one of the most momentous experiences in my 30-plus years in the U.S. Foreign Service.
The journey got off to an inausp