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Leslie Stone
Sygma
Sygma
01 January, 1991
A suspected Tonton Macoute is burnt to death on a funeral pyre of wood and rubber tires. The violence that had characterized Haiti reached a new peak in January 1991. A leader of former dictator Duvalier's secret police - the sinister Tonton Macoutes - tried to seize power, but this time the army sided with the democratic forces. A bloody backlash followed.