Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier wants to donate money to Haiti

[Solly Mack]

El ex dictador Jean Claude Duvalier compromete 8 millones de dólares para ayudar a las víctimas del terremoto

If someone would like to translate. TIA.

[RoyGBiv]

1. First four paragraphs, via Google Translate ...

Former Haitian dictator Jean Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, now in exile in Paris, has pledged Saturday to ask the Swiss authorities to allow the foundation in memory of her late mother who contributes $ 8 million to the Red Cross to help earthquake victims in the Caribbean country.

Duvalier and requested "the immediate transfer of all assets of the foundation Simone Ovide Duvalier to the American Red Cross," said an email sent to U.S. newspaper 'The Daily Beast'.

"In these times of great national concern, I think of the wounded victims, particularly children and young people and their families and loved ones. To them I send a message of fraternity and solidarity in this test so cruel" said the dictator.

"I would like to express my sincere thanks and encouragement to the tremendous wave of solidarity that are demonstrating Haitians around the world, and in which the international community is fully integrated. This community has ensured my deepest gratitude," said ..

The rest is a bit of history on who he is and what he's accused of doing, plus a note that were he to return to Haiti, he would likely face trial.

[niyad]

2. and how much did he steal from the people of haiti?

[RoyGBiv]

12. All of it n/t

[Solly Mack]

3. Thank you

[malaise]

20. He wants to send some of the stolen loot to help Haiti

Fuck that fucking criminal.

[RoyGBiv]

22. They should send him a plane ticket ...

Tell him to deliver the check personally.

Then throw his ass in one of the shanty towns and let them deal with him.

[malaise]

23. Knowing him he'd find a way

to exploit the situation.

[REP]

4. Is "returning what I stole" the same as donating?

What a piece of shit he and his family are.

[Solly Mack]

5. I thought the same thing

[niyad]

6. great minds

[Zoeisright]

16. +1000

Exactly.

[RaleighNCDUer]

18. Wouldn't that make it 'borrowing'?

Regardless of his motives, the guilt he want to asuage or his wanting to go home, you don't get pissy when he offer to give 8 million bucks for relief. Maybe he's a religious man and hopes to get a few years off of purgatory for it - who cares. It will help. Good on him.

[Nikki Stone1]

7. FUCK HIM.

Just FUCK HIM.

[Solly Mack]

8. I agree wholeheartedly

[REP]

10. With something rusty and jagged

[old mark]

9. They should kill him and just take it back. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Well, well, well trying to get down and cozy

...

Something tells me they will take the money and give him a very special salute...

[Solly Mack]

13. Remember when he said he wanted to come back in 2004?

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. yeah he is one of my all favorite criminals

sadly he will just get ahem the discussion going as to why the country is a mess... and no, not the quake.

[peacetalksforall]

14. he wants to give 8 million in aid to victims of the earthquake

[muntrv]

17. Give back all the money you stole from Haiti, you vermin!

[Ghost Dog]

19. Which Red Cross? n/t

[Raster]

21. Little Lord Voodoo wants to donate $8 million. Just a small percentage of what he and his family

stole from the country.

[H2O Man]

24. It appears to be

about Baby Doc George W. Bush.

[Canuckistanian]

25. Why does he need his own "foundation" to give money?

If he really cared about the Haitian people, he should just give the money to the Red Cross or Medecins sans Fronteires.

This is grandstanding at best or outright fraud at worst.

[Junkdrawer]

26. Where are all the "If he only gets $1, it will be worth it" posters?

Or are there some criminals that are just too awful? :shrug: