Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, the former dictator of Haiti, reported passed away

Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, the former dictator of Haiti, reported passed away on October 4^th 2014. Duvalier died at the age of 63 years due to a heart attack. Duvalier's death, announced by health minister Guillaume Duperval Florence.

Baby Doc, Duvalier, in power in the poor Caribbean country since 1971 until his ouster in 1986. Duvalier into exile, and returned in 2011 to Haiti, after a quarter century in exile. Duvalier returned to Haiti by surprise in 2011 with the condition that looks a bit weak. There is not much people support him. Then, the Haiti's former dictator spent his final years in obscurity Haitian capital.

Duvalier is known as the president who proclaimed himself as president for his rest-life. Duvalier was the son of Francois Duvalier, who named "Papa Doc". Papa Doc was a doctor who later turned into a dictator. Papa Doc promote the idea of ​​"Noirism," a movement that seeks to highlight the African roots of Haiti over the Europeans. Her idea was to unite black majority by the elite mulatto in the country divided by class and color.

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In 1971, Francois Duvalier suddenly died of disease and appointed his son to replace him. Young Duvalier succeeded his father, Francois Duvalier at the age of 19 years, and became the youngest president in the world. He followed his father's way of ruling, which stifled all dissent, applying its own laws and pocketing government revenue to finance his own whole life.

During power, Duvalier was depending on Tonton Macoutes very much. Tonton Macoutes was secret police that operating in every aspects of community life. Tonton Macoutes allegedly tortured and killed more than 30 thousand political opponents Duvalier between 1960 and 1970. A few years after the self-proclaimed President for Life, Baby Doc expelled from the country due to massive demonstrations. While, Tonton Macoute could no longer protect him.

In 1990, former political prisoner of Duvalier, filed a lawsuit to court and accuse Baby Doc for commit crimes against humanity. In 2007, Baby Doc returned to Haiti, and sentenced on charges of corruption, theft, and misuse of the state budget. He spent his life in a villa on the outskirts of the city, on top of a hill in Port au Prince, until the Haiti Health Minister Florence Guillaume Duperval officially announced his death.