Word: tonton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kampala, the capital, much of the terror is committed by Big Daddy's personal goon squad, the 3,000-man Public Safety Unit. Like Haiti's feared Tonton Macoute, members of the squad are almost always dressed in sports shirts and wear dark glasses even at night. They are given to cruising Kampala streets in their Peugeots, stopping occasionally to pick up a suspect. The unlucky victim is pushed into the car, driven off and seldom seen again...
...TIME, Aug. 30). To meet the demand for hotel space, the government last month called in leaders of the local Italian and Lebanese communities and ordered them to foot the bill for two new hotels. The casinos too are once again raking in big money. More important, the dread Tonton Macoutes, or "bogeymen," who served as Papa Doc's private army of extortionists, are being relegated to the background. The warden of the notorious Fort Dimanche prison has been replaced, although an unknown number of political prisoners are still held there...
...Haitian bogeyman was called "Tonton Macoute" because he carried a large bag into which he popped naughty children and carried them away. He was represented in earlier and more authentic sculpture and pictures as a huge burly man with an oversized "macoute...
...army's general staff was furious. Out went the general staff, along with the Port-au-Prince police chief. In as chief of staff came Brigadier General Claude Raymond, 40, Papa Doc's tough godson, who previously commanded the presidential guard, the military academy and the deadly Tonton Macoutes, the secret police. If Jean-Claude is to make it to the top, he will probably have to stand on the willing Raymond's shoulders...