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Floral Tribute at Kodjo, Mentor and Presentplein: 'without History, You're a Tree without Roots'

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Text and image Edwien Bodjie PARAMARIBO — "We don't see them as arsonists, but as resistance heroes. That's why we commemorate them every year," said Iwan Wijngaarde, chairman of the Federasi Fu Afrikan Srananman (Federation of the African Surinamese People), on Monday at the monument to Kodjo, Mentor, and Present on Heiligenweg. The annual floral tribute took place there in memory of the three freedom fighters who were brutally executed 193 yea…
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Text and image Edwien Bodjie PARAMARIBO — "We don't see them as arsonists, but as resistance heroes. That's why we commemorate them every year," said Iwan Wijngaarde, chairman of the Federasi Fu Afrikan Srananman (Federation of the African Surinamese People), on Monday at the monument to Kodjo, Mentor, and Present on Heiligenweg. The annual floral tribute took place there in memory of the three freedom fighters who were brutally executed 193 yea…

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