Surinamese people are the inhabitants of Suriname or people of Surinamese descent. Suriname had formerly been a Dutch colony which was captured from the English in 1667. Following Suriname's independence in 1975, many Surinamers migrated to the Netherlands. A second wave of migrants relocated to the Netherlands during the 1980s while Suriname was under the military regime of Dési Bouterse.
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