European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Horny Bruns walk Center Leader of rebels in Pond to the sur Nartie gov amment Pom it Aunofo ""to1 supporter. Atlantic Ocean Pmj Muribo App Tolo guerrilla War in Bush people Are the victims Suriname by Joseph a Treaster new York times for nearly a year Guefa War has isolated Little country on in Northeast coast of conflict a dipping its Economy threatening to society of Bush people and forcing Iris Pitary dictator to Speed up plans Lor elections. It has been a Ward Small Quick engagements Hal Haw attracted Little Attenson in the United states bul Nave cumulatively a bustled in devastating tosses transforming this once pros porous former Dulch Colony into a tormented land of violence and despair. Production in the nation s vital Bauxite Industry has plummeted and half the Normal Supply of electricity to Paramaribo the capital has been knocked out the Moat St Verity afflicted have been surname s 40.000 to 50,000 Busti people known As Bush negroes or maroons who anthropologists say comprise the largest and mo1 significant concentration of descendants of runaway slaves in the world. Several Hundred of these people whose forebears fled t7lh-Century colonial plantations after being brought from Africa Are believed to have been gunned Down by government troops trying to crush the guerrillas most of the rebels Are Itom this ethnic group. Nearly 20.000 of the Bush people who live in thatched huts and often Wear Loincloth have fled their Homes in fear of the Sodi Arm and become refugees in French Guiana and in and around the capital a chef Ermerl officials and Relief workers say. At least six and Poss Tofy More than a dozen villages have been burned Down. Much of the Jungle Interior where the Bush people live has been placed under an emergency decree giving the soldiers virtually in fruited authority. Food and other supplies Are being blocked from the Region to keep them out of the hands of the guerrillas and there have been reports of Bush people starving. Most schools and clinics have closed. La. Col. Dest Bouterse. A 41 year old former physical education Insl Roclor and track Star who seized Power seven years ago and promoted himself from sergeant major says the charges of Alfoni lies Are fies apr Oad by " terrorists who want to overthrow him As he is trying to move Suriname toward democracy. There have been several Allemis to topple him he Page 18 the stars and stripes said in an interview adding that not Long ago people he identified As his opponents offered him millions of dollars and political Asylum to leave Suriname. Bouterse pronounced Bough Ter Seh asserted that fewer than 10 civilians had been kilted since the fighting started last july he said six or seven villages had been destroyed because error Isle were there and the whole place had to be cleaned the Bush people had become refugees to said because they do nol understand what s going they see ugh military coming so they just tee he said in dutch through an interpreter. We have no intention of killing Bouterse a
