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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.
Jean Baptiste was assassinated on the way to his home in the Laboule 12 area on 28 October 2022, when his car was shot up. [10] [11] The Ti Makak and Toto gangs had been fighting for control of the area at the time of his death. [8] His bodyguard was also killed in the attack. Jean Baptiste had survived a shooting in 2018, suffering a bullet ...
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.
Tensions have been rising between the Haitian population and native Springfield residents since 2023, after 11-year-old Aiden Clark was killed when a 36-year-old Haitian driving without a US ...
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.
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 after being ambushed Friday night in the ...
This is a list of heads of state and government who died in office. In general, hereditary office holders (kings, queens, emperors, emirs, and the like) and holders of offices where the normal term limit is life (popes, presidents for life, etc.) are excluded because, until recently, their death in office was the norm.
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 ...