Surinam government is locked in bitter dispute with two hinterland communities over their right to occupy their traditional lands and the state's anxiety to dish out concessions to foreign investors. In one case, the Nieuw Koffie Kamp village, sits smack in the middle of a mine that Golden Star Resources of Denver, Colorado, and Cambior Inc. of Quebec, Canada, plan to develop as soon as world market prices for gold improve. The trouble is that most of the nearly 4,000 villagers, who are from Surinam's Maroon minority, are unwilling to move yet again, after being uprooted from their ancestoral lands to make way for a hydro-electric dam in the 1960s.