Thursday, 14 April 2011
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Haiti’s Rendezvous with History
Feature
Duration
: 9m 32s
(April 14, 2011) - Former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier returned to Haiti on January 16, 2011, after nearly 25 years in exile, and was charged with financial and human rights crimes. The investigation is now underway. This prosecution represents a landmark opportunity for the Haitian justice system to address some of the worst crimes in Haiti’s past.Duvalier’s rule, from 1971-1986, was marked by systematic human rights violations. Hundreds of political prisoners held in a network of prisons known as the “triangle of death” died from mistreatment or were victims of extrajudicial killings. Duvalier’s government repeatedly closed independent newspapers and radio stations. Journalists were beaten, in some cases tortured, jailed and forced to leave the country.
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