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| | Suriname Guerrilla War 1986-1989 |
 | | The National Military Council, led by Lieutenant Colonel Desire Bouterse (1946-), controlled the government of Suriname (formerly Dutch Guiana) between 1982 and 1988, a period when opposition leaders were murdered, natives were restrained, and human rights abuses regularly occurred. |
 | | In Suriname's eastern region in 1986, increased rebel resistance under Ronnie Brunswijk, a former bodyguard of Bouterse, resulted in a declared state of emergency in December, thus compelling Bouterse to hold general elections that brought a democratic civilian government to power in January 1988. |
 | | But Bouterse remained head of the army and, in 1989, refused to accept the conditions of a peace signed by Brusnwijk and Suriname's representative in Kourou in neighboring French Guiana. |
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