[JoeProBono]

[Doogle]

..he ran out of money, heard there was a bundle being cut up amongst thieves, and only thought he was eligible....

[ScottinVA]

He’s probably the best hope that country has. The Haitians might hold off on prosecuting him.

[ScottinVA]

This thug reigned over Haiti for a brutal decade and a half, from 1971 to 1986

As opposed to the thug the U.S. supported -- that deranged, defrocked priest, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

[wideawake]

The history of Jean-Claude Duvalier is more complex than this article represents it and more complex than most FReepers seem to understand as they pile on Duvalier.

The fact is that his father was the tyrant and that he took over at the age of 19, but was really a puppet of his fathers' older and more experienced generals as well as of his well-connected wife and father-in-law.

It was his father-in-law who got rich selling the body parts and the drugs, for example.

It's rather ridiculous to believe that a teenager was running Haiti with an iron fist and ordering around a crew of hardened military advisors who had been running their own private army since before he was born.

What's particularly telling is that he has been living in a small apartment by himself since 1993, when his wife left him and took all the money that she and her family had looted from Haiti with her.

[bert]

I think he is terminally ill and returned home to die

He looks ill

[ScottinVA]

He lived in the splendor of a king, his lifestyle financed in part by the sale of drugs and, most horrifically, human body parts.

Almost sounds like we're talking about Hamid Karzai, here. BTW... the Chinese have an active human body parts trade happening as well.

[JerseyHighlander]

IMHO, he had already paid off the judiciary and political/ gangster power players to make sure he could buy an acquittal,

he is there to go through a mock trial and be found not guilty...