The Duvalliers and the Saint Jean Massacre

Land reform movement started up in the north that was opposed by one of the huge landowners in the region. The military government endorsed this guy's right to keep all his land and do with it as he saw fit. Meanwhile, old duvaller loyalists and senior leaders of the tonton macoots were still just hanging around and eyeing their own power. On september eleventh 19 88, aristide was set to give mass to a thousand parishioners in the poor porta prince neighborhood of saint jean,. A group of about a hundred old tenton macouts pushed their way in and opened re with machine guns. When the crowd broke up in panic, these guys