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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.
[3] [4] Haitian chief prosecutor Bedford Claude confirmed plans to question Moïse's top bodyguards; none of the president's security guards were killed or injured in the attack. [5] US authorities have since arrested eleven suspects alleged to have conspired in the assassination.
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 ...
Betrayed by Decius and killed as a result of the Battle of Verona. [53] [54] Philip II: Rome: Murdered by the Praetorian Guard. [53] [54] Volusianus: Co-Emperors of Rome: August 253: Terni: Assassinated by their own centurions, in favour of Aemilian. [55] Trebonianus Gallus: Aemilianus: Emperor of Rome: September 253: Spoleto: Assassinated by ...
The Duvalier dynasty (French: Dynastie des Duvalier, Haitian Creole: Dinasti Duvalier) was an autocratic hereditary dictatorship in Haiti that lasted almost 29 years, from 1957 until 1986, spanning the rule of the father-and-son duo Dr. François Duvalier (Papa Doc) and Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc). [2] [3] [4] [5]
The first independent Black republic has been punished for liberating itself, while the U.S. and other Western powers have propped up dictators in Haiti and economically exploited the people ...
Survivors have questioned why authorities did not do anything to stop the attack since the gang had warned in a video posted on social media that it planned to target Pont-Sondé. [2] United Nations Human Rights Office spokesman Thameen Al-Kheetan said his agency was horrified by the attack. [8] The European Union also condemned the attack. [11]
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 ...