Supporters want ex-dictator in next Haiti election

Supporters want ex-dictator in next Haiti election
The Associated Press
Saturday, May 22, 2010; 5:46 PM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A small group of red-and-black clad supporters carried pictures of ex-Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier on Saturday, calling for the ousted ruler to return and participate in post-quake presidential elections.

About 200 people wound through the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petionville, which along with other areas home to wealthy Haitians was a one-time center of the leader's support.

They also carried pictures of his bespectacled father, the late Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier. Their clothes were the colors of the dictatorial-era Haitian flag.

Saturday is the anniversary of the date in 1959 when the father founded his Tonton Macoute secret police. The force officially known as the Militia of National Security Volunteers killed, tortured and extorted from countless Haitians.

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