Editing Jungle Commando (section)

== Involvement in Moengo ==
The Jungle Commando would soon begin primarily acting in and around the town of [[Moengo]]. On August 20, 1986, the bauxite processing plants responsible for most of the economic prosperity in the area would be shut down by the Suriname Aluminum Company due to the Jungle Commandos' increased presence in the area. The following day, on August 21, the Jungle Commandos attacked a nearby military platoon at Ajumara Kondre. These attacks led to the jungle commandos' possessing primary control over the [[Marowijne District|Marowijne]],  [[Lawa River (South America)|Lawa]], and [[Tapanahony River|Tapanahoni]] rivers. This control over the local waterways eventually resulted in many hijackings. The first of which took place that September when the jungle commando ceased control over an engined Cessna at [[Apetina]]. Nearing the end of November 1986, the Jungle Commando would be responsible for the destruction of two bridges on the east–west highway into Moengo, leading to their inevitable takeover of the area. Soon after, on December 1, the Surinamese government would issue a state of emergency for the area, and on the following day, the Jungle Commando would be driven out of Moengo. In late December, the Jungle Commando would kidnap the son of ''Granman'' [[Belfon Aboikoni]] to signal that they were still in the area and had only moved up river toward central Suriname. In January 1987, the Jungle Commando bombed multiple power lines, causing an aluminum refinery to shut down and a citywide blackout to occur in Paramaribo because of the [[Afobaka dam]] losing power. The next month, in February, the Moengo powerhouse would be destroyed, as well as a [[palm oil]] plantation in [[Patamacca]]. This caused the village of [[Pokigron]] to request military support to help ward off the Jungle Commandos as the area was now in economic disarray. In May 1987, the Jungle Commandos continued to attack Moengo and [[Albina, Suriname|Albina]] until military forces secured the area. Over the next two years, the military presence would dwindle again and the Jungle Commando would return to take over Moengo for a second time in October 1989, this time with the help of a splinter group headed by Kofi Ajomopong.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=US Department of State Self Study Guide for Suriname, September 2002|url=https://www.governmentattic.org/3docs/Suriname%20SSG.pdf|archive-url=}}</ref>