Lawyer: Haiti won't hold 'Baby Doc' state funeral

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Lawyer: Haiti won't hold 'Baby Doc' state funeral
| October 9, 2014 | Updated: October 9, 2014 8:38pm

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier will not get a formal state funeral, his attorney said Thursday.

Duvalier, the self-designated "president-for-life" who died Saturday from an apparent heart attack, will have a "simple, private" funeral arranged by friends and family in Haiti, attorney Reynold Georges said in an interview.

"There will be people coming from all over the country," he said.

Georges told The Associated Press that he had been told in recent days that the government of President Michel Martelly had planned a state funeral though officials said publicly that no decision had been made.

The attorney said the government apparently changed course and decided against a public funeral for Duvalier, who presided over a regime widely acknowledged as brutal and corrupt until he was ousted by a popular uprising in 1986.


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[Judi Lynn]

1. Death of US-Backed Ex-Dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier Won't End Haitian Victims' Quest for Justice

Death of US-Backed Ex-Dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier Won't End Haitian Victims' Quest for Justice
Tuesday, 07 October 2014 11:14

The former U.S.-backed dictator of Haiti, Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as "Baby Doc," has died at 63. Duvalier ruled Haiti from 1971 to 1986, taking power after the death of his father who had ruled since 1957. Baby Doc’s death came just months after a Haitian court ruled that he could be charged with crimes against humanity under international law, and that he could also be held responsible for abuses by the army and paramilitary forces under his rule. Under his regime, hundreds of political prisoners held in a network of prisons died from their extraordinarily cruel treatment. Baby Doc’s government repeatedly closed independent newspapers and radio stations. Journalists were beaten, in some cases tortured, jailed and forced to leave the country. Despite his human rights record, Baby Doc was a close ally of the United States. After years of exile in France, he returned to Haiti in 2011 and became an ally of Haiti’s current president Michel Martelly.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26684-death-of-us-backed-ex-dictator-baby-doc-duvalier-won-t-end-haitian-victims-quest-for-justice

[rpannier]

2. People are coming from all over the country

I didn't know Haiti had so many Sociopath Clubs

Though, if it were me, I'd go just to see where they buried him so I could dig it up and dump the remains in the ocean

I wish voodoo was real and I could raise the dead. I'd raise him a thousand times, just to kill him again

[jmowreader]

5. They're coming to be sure he's dead

It seems that a couple years ago two Haitian National Police officers were driving in the vicinity of Port au Prince when they saw two men filling in a hole.

"What are you doing?"
'We're burying Baby Doc.'
"What the hell do you mean, you're burying Baby Doc?"
'Just what I said, Officer: Patrice and I found Baby Doc dead, so we're burying him.'
"Are you sure he's dead?"
'Absolutely. He said he wasn't, but you know how that bastard lies.'

[MADem]

3. That's appropriate, I think. nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. They're gonna have to bury him in secret so his grave isn't violated....

And let's not forget that Voodoo is popular there.

Fill his mouth with salt and sew the lips shut.