Plans to Reinstate Our Baby Continue Apace

Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier will face trial for corruption but not for human rights abuses, the judge handling the case said on Monday.

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Victims of Duvalier's armed forces and the notorious National Security Volunteer Militia, better known as the Tonton Macoutes, sought to have their claims included in the official case against Duvalier, but the government prosecutor's office did not include them in its recommendations to the judge as the alleged abuses fell outside the statute of limitations stipulated in Haiti's constitution, according to a senior judicial official.

The government prosecutor also recommended dropping the corruption charges, the official said, but the judge decided to let them stand.

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A 20-page ruling on the charges was delivered to the government prosecutor's office on Monday, Carves Jean, the judge responsible for investigating the case, told Reuters.

It does not include charges for the murders, disappearances, torture and other rights abuses allegedly committed during Duvalier's 15-year rule.

"I did not find enough legal grounds to keep human rights charges and crimes against humanity against him," he said. "Now my job is over. The case is no longer in my hands."

  UK Guardian

He said as he hurried out to deposit his new American dollars into his Swiss bank account.

The Swiss government has sought to confiscate assets valued at 5.8m Swiss francs (£4m). It wants to return the funds to Haiti, which is the poorest country in the Americas and is struggling to recover from an earthquake in 2010 that killed more than 200,000 people.

Whoa! Strike that…deposit them in his US bank account.

Last week, President Michel Martelly was quoted as favouring a pardon for Duvalier but he later retracted his remarks.

After Bill Clinton went back home.

Since then, Duvalier dines frequently in some of the city's finest restaurants, accompanied by former members of his regime. He has also made unauthorised visits outside the capital.

[He] even managed a handshake with an unsuspecting former US president Bill Clinton at an event outside the capital to mark the second anniversary of the 2010 earthquake.

Unsuspecting? I think not.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.