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| Baby Doc sez "Maybe this wasn't such a good idea" |
| 2011-01-20 |
| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier applied for a new passport Wednesday and intends to leave the country when he gets it, a spokesman said, insisting that the ex-strongman can neither be forced to leave his homeland nor compelled to stay and face a potential criminal trial. Duvalier had been scheduled to leave Thursday but can't because his passport has expired, said spokesman Yves Germain Joseph. Duvalier also has new legal problems: Michele Montas, a journalist and former UN spokeswoman and Haitian journalist, and several other people persecuted under the former's dictator's regime filed lawsuits against him Wednesday, claiming torture, arbitrary detention and civil rights violations. Montas told Haitian national television that Montas she hoped her suit would educate Haitians too young to know or remember the terror of the dictatorship. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #8 You could always try a Haitidome. Much more dangerous. |
| Posted by: Charles 2011-01-20 17:49 |
| #7 Damn. There's goes my Thunderdome solution with him and Aristide... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2011-01-20 10:31 |
| #6 heh - he didn't think this through much, did he? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-01-20 10:25 |
| #5 The Serpent and the Rainbow, part II, "The Return of Baby Doc". The original movie was quite good, with the final scene of him flying out of Haiti right as Baby Doc was overthrown. Then you could tell the moment when some studio suit walked on to the set and said, "Bo-ring! We need more special effects! And like flying voodoo thingys! And smoke and flame and explosions and stuff!" So the last five minutes utterly destroyed the movie. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-01-20 10:13 |
| #4 Hate to say it, but Duvalier ran the country much better than his successors. Just like Marcos in the Philippines. I guess you can't win 'em all. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-01-20 09:53 |
| #3 He ran out of rent money years ago in France and was living in a garage. Perhaps this was just France's way of getting rid of a low IQ dead beat. |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2011-01-20 08:24 |
| #2 Better start explaining the concept of a Mulligan to them. |
| Posted by: gorb 2011-01-20 02:21 |
| #1 Should have taken care of that at a consulate abroad instead of at the home office. |
| Posted by: gromky 2011-01-20 00:12 |