Word: duvalierization
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To Haitians who endured the 28-year rule of the Duvalier dynasty, it was a vivid replay of an old nightmare. A sudden police fusillade two weeks ago outside Port-au-Prince's Fort Dimanche, once a prison and torture center of the feared Tonton Macoute, killed eight marchers protesting...
The council is also acting to bring several Duvalier henchmen to justice. They include Suspected Murderer Frank Roumain, a former mayor of Port-au- Prince, and Luc Desyr, who served as chief of the Duvaliers' secret police. Desyr is believed to have tortured a former leader of the Haitian legislature...
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime," wrote Honore de Balzac, and Swiss bankers seem to be concluding that the French novelist was right. Less than one month after freezing the bank accounts of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Switzerland last week took similar action against Haiti's deposed...
The Haitian government, which requested the action, charges that Duvalier, who fled to France last February in the face of a popular revolt, amassed between $200 million and $900 million during his nearly 15 years as President- for-Life. The Haitians, however, may have waited too long to act. Swiss...
Whatever the outcome, the Marcos legal miasma may become the lead case in an emerging area of jurisprudence that might be called deposed-dictator law. Many of the same problems arose in the effort by Iran to regain the wealth of the exiled Shah, but the hostage seizure abruptly ended...