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	Moiwana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moiwana is a Maroon village in the Marowijne district in the east of Suriname.
		The village was the scene of the Moiwana massacre on November 29, 1986, during the civil war between the Surinamese military regime, headed by Dési Bouterse and the Jungle Commando led by Ronnie Brunswijk.
		The army attacked the village, killing at least 35 of the inhabitants, mostly women and children, and burning the house of Ronnie Brunswijk.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moiwana (298 words)

	Comparative Criminology \| South America - Suriname
		Moiwana '86 did not pursue the issue further, although the group asserts that this procedure continues.
		Moiwana '86 and the police previously cooperated to develop a detention officer training program for police guards working at the local detention facilities.
		The investigation was dropped by the NGO Moiwana '86 because it could not prove that the Government was the sole entity in charge of the hospital.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/rwinslow/samerica/suriname.html (5213 words)

	1997 Human Rights Reports: Suriname (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		However, the human rights group Moiwana '86 began an investigation into the death of a prisoner following complaints from the prisoner's family that he was beaten to death by prison guards.
		Moiwana '86 also investigated the death of a prisoner by hanging, under what it characterized as suspicious circumstances, and criticized prison authorities for not responding to requests for information.
		Moiwana '86 unsuccessfully challenged in the lower court of Paramaribo the validity of the Amnesty Law passed in 1992, which pardoned members of the military and the insurgents for crimes (except genocide) committed between January 1985 and August 1992.
	www.usemb.se /human/human97/suriname.html (3854 words)

	Forest Peoples Programme: Suriname: Summary of IACHR judgment in the Case of Moiwana Village - August 2005
		The attack on Moiwana village in 1986 resulted in the destruction of the village and the forcible eviction of the survivors, who have been unable to return to rebuild their village and maintain their relationships with their ancestral lands to this day.
		Finally, determining that Suriname had violated article 21, the Court observed that “the Moiwana community members may be considered the legitimate owners of their traditional lands; as a consequence, they have the right to the use and enjoyment of that territory.
		The State shall, as soon as possible, recover the remains of the Moiwana community members killed during the events of November 29, 1986, and deliver them to the surviving community members so that the appropriate rituals may be performed and the remains interred in a place of the victims’ choosing.
	www.forestpeoples.org /documents/law_hr/suriname_iachr_moiwana_summ_aug05_eng.shtml (2935 words)

	Suriname
		According to Moiwana '86, a human rights group, the responsible police officer was tried in March, found guilty, and sentenced to 5 years in prison.
		In 1997 Moiwana '86 took the case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which gave the Government until December 1 to report on the status of its investigation.
		Moiwana '86 reported that the authorities granted all requests for prison visits during the year.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18345.htm (5855 words)

	Signa Vianen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Moiwana case was one in a wide range of publications, if not regular news reports, in a time when reports about violations of basic human rights were still somewhat considered a taboo in this democratic country.
		Namely 'Moiwana' almost got no media coverage at first, was up until recently considered to be a 'dull' case.
		Signa Vianen is one of the few locals who helped edit the original database for the 2005 Prisma Sranan Tongo dictionary, an overview of Sranan (the main dialect in Suriname) words and verbal expressions (first selection ever translated into Dutch ánd vice versa).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Signa_Vianen,_Journalist (316 words)

	1993 Human Rights Report: SURINAME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The nongovernmental human rights group Moiwana '86 took up this case, and the Government investigated possible misconduct on the part of the prison guards or police.
		Moiwana '86 continued to pursue the court case it instituted in 1992, challenging the validity of the law that conferred amnesty on members of the military and the insurgents for crimes (except crimes against humanity) committed since 1985, but no final judgment was rendered.
		On September 10, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights rendered a judgment concerning compensation to be paid to the survivors of seven Maroons (descendants of escaped slaves who fled into the interior to avoid recapture) killed near the village of Pokigron in 1987, for which the Government had admitted responsibility in 1991.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/democracy/1993_hrp_report/93hrp_report_ara/Suriname.html (3867 words)

	Suriname Makes Amends to Massacre Victims
		Sunday, July 16, 2006; 2:19 AM MOENGO, Suriname -- Hundreds of relatives of at least 39 people killed 20 years ago by a military dictatorship returned to their native Suriname to receive an official apology and compensation from the government.
		In a dusty bauxite mining town near the now-deserted village of Moiwana, where a military unit shot to death men, women and children and torched their thatched-hut homes during a civil war with jungle-based rebels, President Ronald Venetiaan offered an apology Saturday to the victims' tribal leader.
		The act of public contrition came on the last day permitted by a 2005 international court ruling that also required the South American nation's government to compensate survivors and victims' descendants and prosecute those responsible for the killings.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/16/AR2006071600049_pf.html (573 words)

	Forest Peoples Programme: Suriname to compensate N'djuka Maroon community of Moiwana - June 2005
		Surviving relatives of 39 Maroon people killed in Suriname's Moiwana village massacre have returned to their birthplace for the first time since the 1986 killings for a memorial service.
		No one has been prosecuted or punished for the attack on the village and the survivors were forced to flee into exile in French Guyana or internal displacement in the former Dutch colony.
		The court said there was evidence the Bouterse government was involved in obstructing the investigation into the Moiwana village deaths.
	www.forestpeoples.org /documents/law_hr/suriname_iachr_moiwana_base_aug05_eng.shtml (513 words)

	Caribbean Net News: Suriname apologizes for Moiwana massacre
		It was also ordered to pay compensation for material and moral damages to 130 Moiwana community members and surviving relatives of the victims.
		The now deserted village of Moiwana on November 29, 1986 was raided by an army unit as a crackdown on the so-called Jungle Commando, a rebel group which took up arms against the then ruling military government of Desi Bouterse.
		Between 1986 and 1992 when a peace agreement was signed, several hundred soldiers, rebels and innocent civilians where killed, while in the interior where most of the fighting took place, bridges, roads and villages were destroyed, while several businesses were burnt to the ground.
	www.caribbeannetnews.com /cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000023/002390.htm (520 words)

	Suriname - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A suspect was arrested, although no information on the motive for the burglaries or their possible relation to the investigation was known to have been made public.
		The petition regarding the November 1986 massacre, in which 35 people, mostly women and children, were killed during an attack by a specialized military unit, was brought by the non-governmental organization Moiwana ’86.
		Three men, reportedly suspected of embezzlement, were allegedly beaten with batons in the Nieuwe Haven police station on 18 May. Several days later, the public prosecutor announced that the case would be investigated; it is not known whether an investigation had been initiated at the end of the year.
	web.amnesty.org /report2004/sur-summary-eng (428 words)

	Suriname 11.821
		The petition was lodged by the human rights organization Moiwana ’86 of Suriname on June 27, 1997, and concerns the extrajudicial execution of more than 40 residents of Moiwana, a village belonging to one of Suriname’s maroon communities, and the intentional destruction of their property by members of the Army of that country.
		The petition states with respect to the massacre and destruction at the village of Moiwana, which is the principal subject of the petition, that at the beginning of November 1986 the military commenced a “cleansing” operation in Eastern Suriname, and ordered the civilian population to evacuate the area.
		The operation against the village of Moiwana and its outlying areas began, according to the petition, on November 29, 1986, and was carried out by a military unit made up of specially-trained men divided into three groups, one of which launched a direct attack on the village.
	www.cidh.oas.org /annualrep/99eng/Admissible/Suriname11821.htm (2664 words)

	Suriname - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		While leading the police investigation into the 1986 Moiwana massacre, Herman Gooding was reportedly forced out of his car by unknown assailants near Fort Zeelandia and shot in the head.
		The massacre took place on 29 November 1986 when a specialized military unit attacked the village of Moiwana, burning the house of armed opposition leader Ronnie Brunswijk and reportedly killing at least 35 people, mostly women and children.
		In June 1997 the non-governmental human rights organization Moiwana ’86 lodged a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights concerning the massacre.
	web.amnesty.org /report2003/Sur-summary-eng (770 words)

	TITLE: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, 2000: Europe and the New Independant States
		In February 1999, the human rights group Moiwana '86 issued a report that accused prison officials at two of the federal prisons of using electrical shocks to discipline prisoners.
		Moiwana '86 did not pursue the issue further.
		Moiwana '86 and the police cooperated to develop a detention officer training program for police guards working at the local detention facilities.
	www.terrorismcentral.com /Library/Government/US/StateDepartment/DemocracyHumanRights/2000/Americas/Suriname.html (4864 words)

	UNHCR - U.S. Department of State Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2005 - Suriname
		In June the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found the government guilty of human rights violations in the case of the 1986 massacre of at least 39 civilians at the N'Djuka Maroon village of Moiwana and the intentional destruction of their property by a unit of the National Army.
		Representatives of the NGO Moiwana '86 group reported that, in general they had access to prisoners and received cooperation from prison officials on routine matters.
		While the law prohibits arbitrary arrest and detention, and the government generally observed these prohibitions, prisoners who appealed their cases often served their full sentences due to the lengthy appeals process resulting from a shortage of judges.
	www.unhcr.org /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.htm?tbl=RSDCOI&page=research&id=441821812 (6740 words)

	FTR 2002/United Nations Human Rights - Treaty Bodies
		As to the events in the village of Moiwana, he said that the President had established a fact-finding commission and a police investigation had started Negotiations were under way for a friendly settlement.
		The efforts of the NGO Moiwana 86 had improved the situation and the Government believed that conditions in the detention centres were significantly better It did not consider that conditions in its detention facilities amounted to torture, or to cruel or inhuman treatment or punishment.
		Abuses included the 1986 massacre of civilians at the village of Moiwana, the so-called December murders of 15 people in 1982 at the Fort Zeelandia army centre, and the beating of a prisoner to death by prison guards in 1993.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord2002/documentation/tbodies/ccpr-c-sr2054.htm (6400 words)

	Annual Report 1991 - Chapter IVf
		This was followed by a signed agreement in April in which all parties solemnly recognized the Government's right to govern the whole of Surinamese territory and their commitment to allow free transit of voters, observers and elections officials as well as to respect the results of the vote.
		Better yet, at the behest of Granman Songo Aboikani of the Saramaccan Maroons and the human rights organization Moiwana 86 led by Stanley Rensch, both Army and Jungle Commando troops withdrew from the eastern and south central regions of Suriname in May for the remainder of the campaign.
		The same may be said with respect to the massive repression conducted by the Army in 1986 in the village of Moiwana and elsewhere which contributed to the mass exodus of Maroons and Amerindians to French Guiana and Paramaribo.
	www.cidh.oas.org /annualrep/91eng/chap.4f.htm (1614 words)

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		An Expert expressed his appreciation for the measures taken by the State party to implement the provisions of the Covenant and the prevalence of the treaty over domestic legislation.
		Turning to cases of human rights violations, the Expert said that investigations of the execution of political opponents in December 1982, and the 1986 extra-judicial killings of many civilians in the village of Moiwana had not been known to the public.
		Asked why the State did not take responsibility for the three massacres of December 1982, Moiwana in 1986, and that of Tjongalanga Pasi in 1987, the delegation said that the legal responsibility would be established once the cases were fully investigated by the Attorney General.
	www.unhchr.ch /huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/B949B72F8E60C101C1256C5B004895F9?opendocument (1981 words)

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		In 1997, Moiwana '86, a nongovernmental organization (NGO) established as a watchdog on this and other human rights issues, took the case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which gave the Government until December 1, 2002, to report on the status of its investigation.
		The IACHR forwarded the Moiwana case to the Inter-American Court on Human Rights after receiving no response from the Government.
		There was no separate facility for girls under the age of 18; girls were held in the women's detention center and in the women's section of one of the prison complexes.
	www.pards.org /surinamecr03.doc (6027 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner News - Government makes apology, compensation over massacre - Sunday \| July 16, 2006
		HUNDREDS OF relatives of at least 39 people killed 20 years ago by a military dictatorship returned to their native land yesterday to receive an official apology and compensation from the Surinamese government.
		In a dusty bauxite mining town near the now-deserted village of Moiwana, where a military unit shot to death men, women and children and torched their thatched-hut homes during a civil war with jungle-based rebels, President Ronald Venetiaan offered an apology to the victims' tribal leader.
		to the surviving relatives of the barbaric attack carried out by the state against the peaceful community of Moiwana," he said to Matodja Gazon.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20060716/int/int2.html (493 words)

	Suriname: Government commitments and human rights
		In June 1997, the nongovernmental human rights organization Moiwana 86 lodged a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights concerning extrajudicial executions of 40 Moiwana residents, the destruction of the village and the denial of a judicial remedy for victims families.
		Currently Moiwana 86, in collaboration with the Surinamese Police Force, is working on a project aimed at having human rights classes incorporated in the curriculum of the police academy.
		According to Moiwana 86, the backlog in the judicial system continues to be a problem in August 2002, further exacerbating the problem of overcrowding in prison cells and detention blocks.
	www.amnestyusa.org /regions/americas/document.do?id=50BB365B65D8AC8280256CAA004D12DF (7267 words)

	Suriname Human Rights
		opposition leaders and the 1986 massacre of civilians at the village of Moiwana.
		In January 1996, Moiwana '86 implemented a program to monitor the condition of prisoners.
		Moiwana '86 and the police cooperated to develop a detention officer training program for police guards working at the
	www.nationbynation.com /Suriname/Human.html (4280 words)

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		As for ongoing investigations into the 1986 "Moiwana Massacre", Ambassador LIMON said that some of the prospective witnesses had moved or died and others had been uncooperative with authorities.
		Addressing the charges leveled by several civil society groups that suicide subsequent to sexual abuse was the main cause of death of girls between the ages of six and 12, he said that there were no cases of suicide of girls in that age range due to sexual abuse.
		On the 1986 Moiwana massacre, in which some 35 people -– mostly women and children –- had been killed in the eastern part of the country, he recalled that a human rights expert from the Geneva-based United Nations Commission for Human Rights had travelled there and carried out an investigation.
	www.unhchr.ch /huricane/huricane.nsf/0/C9F3E26CE185A2C3C1256E970035EC55?opendocument (2260 words)

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		Sat 15 Jul 2006 11:01 PM ET MOENGO, Suriname, July 15 (Reuters) - At a ceremony in a soccer stadium, Suriname's president on Saturday apologized for an army massacre of at least 39 unarmed civilians carried out by the military regime in 1986.
		Suriname, a former Dutch colony on the northern coast of South America, was engulfed by a civil war during the 1980s that pitted guerrillas against the military leadership.
		The massacre in the community of Moiwana, an eastern village first founded by escaped slaves, was part of a crackdown on the guerrillas.
	today.reuters.com /News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=N15204401 (319 words)

	ILIB March 21
		The Appellant’s seventh ground of appeal relating to whether the Trial Chamber had sufficiently taken into account his co-operation with the Prosecution was upheld in part.
		A state-planned massacre in 1986 against the residents of the Moiwana village was the subject of that case.
		Suriname applied for a reinterpretation of that judgment pursuant to Article 67 of the Convention, which reads: “The judgment of the Court shall be final and not subject to appeal.
	www.asil.org /ilib/2006/03/ilib060321.htm (1509 words)

	AMW2
		Rensch fortuitously escaped unharmed and there were no further attempts on his life, but he is often under military surveillance.
		Other members of Rensch's organization, Moiwana '86, have also encountered intimidation, including anonymous phone calls in which the caller imitates the noise of a gun shot.
		In 1989, two members of Moiwana were forced to leave the country and remain in the Netherlands.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1992/WR92/AMW2-07.htm (2180 words)

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