Sugrim Oemrawsingh
| Sugrim Oemrawsingh | |
|---|---|
| Born | Harry Sugrim Oemrawsingh August 25, 1940 Nickerie, Suriname |
| 💀Died | December 8, 1982 (aged 42) Paramaribo, SurinameDecember 8, 1982 (aged 42) |
| 💼 Occupation | Mathematician, physicist, teacher |
Harry Sugrim Oemrawsingh (25 August 1940 – 8 December 1982) was a Surinamese scientist. He was one of the victims of the December murders.
Biography[edit]
Oemrawsingh was born in the Nickerie District, into an Indo-Surinamese family. After primary school, his parents sent him to Paramaribo to attend high school there. At the age of twenty, he obtained the diploma of the General Secondary School (AMS), after which he went to the Netherlands to study there. After eight years, he obtained his doctorate in mathematics and physics from the University of Amsterdam.
After his studies, Oemrawsingh worked as a scientific assistant at the data center of the Delft University of Technology. There, he also got the space and time to work on his dissertation. His specialization was computer science and he published several articles, including internationally in the International Journal of Computer Mathematics. In the 1970s, he returned to his home country, where he, as a university lecturer at the University of Suriname in Paramaribo, was involved in setting up a university computer center (URC), which was finally officially opened in 1980, and of which he was the first director. His promotion, prepared in Delft, took place in 1977 at this university. He was married and had a daughter and son.
Despite the seizure of power by Dési Bouterse in 1980, Oemrawsingh was able to continue working at the university for some time. In March 1982, however, his twin brother Baal Oemrawsingh, who was a professor of biochemistry at the University of Suriname, was murdered; possibly because of his involvement in the failed counter-coup by Surendre Rambocus and others. Oemrawsingh decided to continue working, and not to listen to warnings from friends about his own safety. He was arrested after the murder of his brother himself, but was released after questioning.
However, Bouterse felt threatened by the openly critical people at the university, and Oemrawsingh, along with his colleague Gerard Leckie, were regarded as dangerous troublemakers. On December 8, 1982, he was therefore arrested again, and with fourteen others he was murdered by the military rulers in Fort Zeelandia. Oemrawsingh was buried on December 13 at Sarwa Oedai cemetery. It was not until 30 November 2007, that the trial began against the suspects of this murder.
References[edit]
- Sugrim Oemrawsingh: 25 augustus 1940 — 8 december 1982 Universitair Docent (in Dutch)
- Sugrim Oemrawsingh was wiskundige, directeur van het Universitair Rekencentrum en universiteitsdocent (in Dutch)
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