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/ 16 July 2006

Suriname apologises for 1986 massacre

At a ceremony in a soccer stadium, Suriname’s president on Saturday apologised for an army massacre of at least 39 unarmed civilians carried out by the military regime in 1986. Last year the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, linked to the Organisation of American States, ordered Suriname to make the apology and pay nearly -million in compensation to 130 survivors of the attack,