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Tonton Macoutes (tŏntŏn` mäk  t`) [Haitian Creole,=bogeymen], personal police force of dictator Francois Duvalier Duvalier, François (fräNswä` düvälyā`), 1907–71, dictator of Haiti (1957–71)...... Click the link for more information. (Papa Doc) of Haiti. Unpaid volunteers who were directly responsible only to Duvalier, they were given virtual license to torture, kill, and extort. They murdered hundreds of Duvalier's opponents, sometimes publicly hanging the corpses as warnings. After Papa Doc's death (1971), his son Jean-Claude Duvalier Duvalier, Jean-Claude (zhäN-klōd düvälyā`), 1951–, president of Haiti (1971–86). ..... Click the link for more information. (Baby Doc) changed their name to the National Security Volunteers, though they continued to terrorize the citizenry. After the overthrow of Baby Doc (1986), although officially disbanded, the group continued to spread terror. |
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Government goons known as Tonton Macoute snatched away citizens in the dead of night. ``Suge's men were the Tonton Macoutes of hip-hip,'' Ro said, referring to Papa Doc's much-feared gang, which terrorized Haiti for years. The Haitian army numbers only 7,000, but with its traditional paramilitary auxiliaries, the former Tonton Macoutes of the Duvalier era and the thugs in FRAPH, their forces may amount to at least 200,000. |
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