Jean-Claude \u201cBaby Doc\u201d Duvalier\u2019s surprise return to Haiti last Sunday has caused a stir in the country and the international community. Succeeding his father Fran\u00e7ois \u201cPapa Doc\u201d Duvalier, Jean-Claude Duvalier served as Haiti\u2019s dictator until he was driven away in a popular uprising 25 years ago.\u00a0 Since then Duvalier has remained in exile in France, and now his sudden reappearance in Haiti has left the world guessing.\u00a0 Is he back to recover looted money?\u00a0 To sway Haitian politics?\u00a0 And if so, in whose favor?\u00a0 Duvalier has revealed precious little about his rationale, but still insists, \u201cI came to help my country.\u201d<\/p>\n
Human rights groups are calling for Duvalier\u2019s immediate arrest, based on his regime\u2019s torture and execution of dissidents, and \u00a0his 25-year evasion of the Haitian justice system.<\/p>\n
Read more from The Washington Post<\/a>, and the following press release from The Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti. Jean-Claude \u201cBaby Doc\u201d Duvalier\u2019s surprise return to Haiti last Sunday has caused a stir in the country and the international community. Succeeding his father Fran\u00e7ois \u201cPapa Doc\u201d Duvalier, Jean-Claude Duvalier served as Haiti\u2019s dictator until he was driven away in a popular uprising 25 years ago.\u00a0 Since then Duvalier has remained in exile in France, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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