Suriname’s ex-president fled murder conviction. His victims’ families want him found

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Suriname’s ex-president fled murder conviction. His victims’ families want him found

By Ank Kuipers PARAMARIBO (Reuters) – The families of Surinamese activists slain for their opposition to the government in the 1980s say decades of suffering and sluggish legal proceedings have been prolonged by the apparent inability of authorities to locate the man at the center of it all: former President Desi Bouterse. Bouterse, 78, dominated politics in the tiny South American country for decades, leading a coup in 1980 and finally leav…