I know the Haitian people because I am the Haitian people.
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Showing all text quotesBirth: | 14th April, 1907 |
Death: | 21st April, 1971 |
Nationality: | Haitian |
Profession: | President |
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François Duvalier, also known as ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier, was the President of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971. He opposed a military coup d'état in 1950, and was elected president in 1957 on a populist and black nationalist platform. His rule, based on a purged military, a rural militia known as the Tonton Macoute and the use of a personality cult and voodoo, resulted in the murder of an estimated 30,000 Haitians and the exile of many more
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