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Tonton Macoutes

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Tonton Macoutes (tŏntŏn` mäkt`) [Haitian Creole,=bogeymen], personal police force of dictator Francois Duvalier Duvalier, François , 1907–71, dictator of Haiti (1957–71). A physician, he became director-general of the national public health service in 1946 and subsequently served as minister of health and of labor.
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 (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 , 1951–, president of Haiti (1971–86). At age 19, he was proclaimed "president for life" upon the death of his father, Francois Duvalier.
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 (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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In "Children of the Sea," two separated lovers--a young girl escaping the violence of the Tonton Macoutes in Port-au-Prince and a rebel fleeing in a dilapidated boat--reveal the country's political turmoil.
In Haiti, conditioned by generations of repressive authority and the brutality of the Tonton Macoutes, ushers in country churches will sometimes rough up a congregant suspected of breaching order in the Communion line.
But after an attempted coup in mid-1958, he formed a militia known as the Tonton Macoutes.
 
 
 
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