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Relatively quiet and peaceful Suriname appeared on the international radar screen in the 1980s when it experienced a military coup, revolutionary experiments, including human rights violations, the difficult process of redemocratization, guerrilla warfare supported by outside forces, and economic implosion.
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© 2014 Rosemarijn Hoefte
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Hoefte, R. (2014). Economic Collapse, Social Dislocation, and the Military Regime. In: Suriname in the Long Twentieth Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137360137_7
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