Suriname: Amnesty law change may end current trial

Index Number: AMR 48/001/2012
Date Published: 2 April 2012
Categories: Suriname

The Surinamese Parliament will shortly vote on an amendment to the country’s 1992 amnesty law. If passed, it will halt a current trial into the killing of 15 people in December 1982, allegedly perpetrated by, amongst others, the current President Dési Bouterse.