— long term associates of the Duvalier dictatorship.
Meanwhile Haitians are extracting long awaited justice from the Tontons Macoutes Duvalier's personal militia, UNTOUCHI whose indiscriminate and vicious Dardany he and his father have clung to power SInCe 1957. Members of the Tontons Macoutes were reported to be fleeing and abandoning Baby Doc Duvalier By the time the news spread Friday unde Baby Doc' Duvalier had fled, he had already surfaced with 50 of his enthe Talloires al holiday resort on the boundaries of France and Switzerland. Throughout last week he had been discreetly seeking 'asylum' in at least 20 countries including Argentina, Greece, Paraguay, Nigeria. Hait: immediately went into a delirium of celebra"The whole nation LULL appeared erupt with reported journalist joy, Simon Hoggart. 'The peo ple poured through the streets, waving, chanting, singing, embracing one anowiel and waving branches of greenery had become the symbol of their hberation.' Violent retribution began rapidly against the Tontons. law unto THE DUVALIER family, for 30 years dictators of Haiti, has fled the country, driven out by its people. Power now lies uneasily in the hands of General Henri Namphy and a five-member military council the Tontons were the Duvalier family's terror machine.
Drivalc They alC closely tied in with local business interests wno use them as a cross between the mad personal goon squad. Attack Crowds rapidly attacked any Tontons in sight began looting sacking stores and supermarkets belonging to business people associated with them. The Tontons nave been retaliating, and the army has declared a curfew. But if the army defends them too vigorously such small popularity as it possesses will soon evaporate. The Unitea slates is pusning forward the army as the guarantors of the tion. Troops moved rapidprotect the Tontons, acts of violence by the army against the people increasing.
General Nampy has chosen ex-Tontons head as Interior Minister and rules out election for five years.
Poorest Haiti, with six million inhabitants. is said ca be the poorest country in the hemisphere.
Seventy-seven cent But it has a long tradition. In 1808 it threw off the Slave-owlillig colonial French yoke and established the modern world's first black republic. The long struggle for independence was organised L'Ouverture.
rall has been playground of the USA since the beginning of this century. Papa Doc took power with heir blessin nd when he died in 197 they sent a war ship, the Guadalcanal, to Port of Frince lust to make sure this guardian of western democracy could pass the succession safely on to his son 'Baby Doc.
Salted Since then US aid had risen to $54 million a year. The US government was fully aware that most of this was salted away foreign bank accounts and foreign property holdings by Duvalier. In a country wnere Illelacy Is around per cent, where and disease is rife, Duvalier spent $3 million on his wedding and his wife Michele chartered concorde lo EVLO for shopping expeditions for furs.
Unrest The United States only oppression of the Duvalier regime when widespread unrest against began to rise over the last few years. By the end of last year it had developed into rioting mass demonstrations Duvalier. The US then decided step 1n remove the dictator in an attempt to keep opposition within pro-capitalist channels, rather than risk the type of upheaval which took place in Nicaragua Grenada, or which is developing in the Philip pines. Stability in Central The Black Jacobins the first black republic in the world.
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