Ronnie Brunswijk
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Ronnie Brunswijk (Moengo Tapoe, 7 or 27 March 1962) is a Surinamese rebel leader, politician, business man, and convict. After having been the personal body guard of Desi Bouterse in the early 1980s, he turned against his former boss by forming the Jungle Commando which fought the Bouterse regime "on behalf of the Maroon population" in the Suriname Guerilla War. The Surinamese army was looking for Brunswijk when it committed the Moiwana massacre.[1] Brunswijk was convicted to six years imprisonment by a Dutch court in Haarlem, and has an international arrest warrant issued against him.[2]
Brunswijk has a private island in the Marowijne River.
