Squatting in Suriname

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Suriname on the globe
Houses beside the river
Self-built housing at Antonio do Brinco

Squatting in Suriname is the occupation of unused land or derelict buildings without the permission of the owner.

Amerindians
have squatted buildings and illegal gold prospectors have occupied land.

History

Suriname became an independent republic in 1975, after previously being a Dutch colony.

Convention of London, Suriname became the only Dutch colony in the Guianas.[3]

In the 1990s, squatters occupied government-built housing at Koewarasan and called their occupation Sunny Point. The occupiers were mostly Maroons, who had been displaced by the Surinamese Interior War.[4] The village of Pokigron was destroyed in the conflict and people ended up squatting in a barracks near Paramaribo.[5]

The

bauxite mining project. The first two settlers moved into the unused buildings near the airstrip and a pilot chased them away. Asongo Alalaparu, the granman (paramount chief of the tribe), told them to return and build their houses next to the facilities which were already present.[7]

The presence of gold in the interior, has attracted garimpeiros (illegal gold prospectors) who come mainly from Brazil. They have founded Antonio do Brinco[8] and Villa Brazil among others.[9]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9782367813639
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  2. ISBN 9991410155
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  3. ^ "Berbice". British Empire. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  4. ISBN 978-90-5629-598-1
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  5. ^ Vries, H. de (2 January 1991). "De ondergang van een Surinaams bosnegerdorp". Digibron (in Dutch). Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  6. ^ Heemskerk, Marieke; Delvoye, Katia (2007). Trio Baseline Study: A sustainable livelihoods perspective on the Trio Indigenous Peoples of South Suriname (PDF). Paramaribo: Stichting Amazon Conservation Team-Suriname.
  7. ISBN 978-90-8890-098-3
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  8. ISBN 978-90-04-28011-3
    – via OAPEN Library.
  9. ^ "Boldewijn: 'Grensprobleem moet prioriteit gesprekken zijn'". Dagblad De West (in Dutch). Retrieved 18 March 2021.

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