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Jean-Claude Duvalier (French: [ʒɑ̃klod dyvalje]; 3 July 1951 – 4 October 2014), nicknamed "Baby Doc" (French: Bébé Doc, Haitian Creole: Bebe Dòk), was a Haitian dictator who inherited the President of Haiti from 1971 until he was overthrown by a popular uprising in February 1986.
On 3 August, Haiti's government requested help from the United Nations to conduct an international investigation into the assassination. [116] Haitian officials investigating the cases meanwhile reported that they were receiving death threats and were forced to go into hiding, after the authorities ignored their requests for protection.
The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Haiti, following the end of the Haitian Revolution in Saint-Domingue which declared its independence from France on 1 January 1804 and became the world's first and oldest black-led republic in the Americas, the first Caribbean state and the first Latin American country as a whole in the Western Hemisphere after the United States ...
A year after Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated inside his bedroom on July 7, 2021, three people have been charged in the US, while the case lingers in Haiti.
Killed by a car bomb planted by unidentified militant Thomas Sankara: President of Burkina Faso: October 15, 1987: Ouagadougou Burkina Faso: Soldiers under the command of Gilbert Diendéré: René Moawad: President of Lebanon: November 22, 1989: Beirut Lebanon: Killed by a car bomb Ahmed Abdallah: President of the Comoros: November 26, 1989 ...
In July 1958, three exiled Haitian army officers and five American mercenaries landed in Haiti and tried to overthrow Duvalier; all were killed. [21] Although the army and its leaders had quashed the coup attempt, the incident deepened Duvalier's distrust of the army, an important Haitian institution over which he did not have firm control.
At least 71 people were killed, more than 400 houses were destroyed “and at least seven women were raped by armed gangs,” the U.N. sanctions notice said. It was Haiti’s worst massacre in a ...
A well-known political leader who headed one of Haiti’s center-left political parties after making a name for himself in the lottery business is dead ... was killed and his body burned in his car.