Haiti - Culture : "Jean-Claude Duvalier, l'Héritier"
This Saturday, April 2 from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm, the FOKAL organizes a conference debate on the release of the book "Jean-Claude Duvalier, l'Héritier" of Bernard Diederich, in the presence of the author. This new book, second volume of the book "Le Prix du Sang", begins with the death of dictator François Duvalier in 1971 and ends with the flight of the Duvalier family, February 7, 1986.
It focuses on the little known story of Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier in the vision of a dynastic continuity, father-son who, until now threatens the future of the country. "The story of the longest period and the second of the Duvalier dictatorship, 1971-1986, allowed to discover the lines of the possible bursting volcanic period, that would explode after the collapse of such a dictatorship" wrote Bernard Diederich in "l'Héritier".
The conference will be held with the collaboration of Jean-Claude Bajeux, director of the Ecumenical Centre for Human Rights, which has translated the two books. Michèle Pierre-Louis, President of the FOKAL, will moderate the exchange between the speakers and the audience. A sale-sign of the two volumes of "Prix du sang" will be held at the end of the conference debate.
"The legacy of tyranny is a poison that everyone breathes in its euphoria or despair, the crowd becomes able to accommodate any prophet, any fraud." L'Héritier, 2010.
