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Ramsewak Shankar is a politician and was the president of Suriname from 1988-1990.
He was elected president by the National Assembly after parliamentary elections were held in November 1987 following the adoption of a new constitution by the ruling military regime. Ramsewak Shankar was a former agriculture minister and succeeded Ramdat Misier as the president of Surinam.
In 1989 he agreed on pardoning the maroons, or bush negroes and the possibility of their members keeping their arms when moving within the rain forest. Bouterse and the National Democratic Party opposed the agreement calling it a violation of the constitution and that this would lead to legalizing an independent military force.
In 1990 he was ousted in a bloodless military coup( known as the 'Telephone coup') led by Bouterse, and a military backed government was installed with Johnann Kraag as the new president.
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