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            No Formal State Funeral Planned for 'Baby Doc' in Haiti

   by VOA News

   Former Haitian self-proclaimed president-for-life Jean-Claude Duvalier,
   known as "Baby Doc," will receive no formal state funeral.

   Instead. the brutal and corrupt Caribbean dictator will be remembered
   during a private ceremony Saturday at the chapel of a Catholic school
   he once attended in Port-au-Prince.

   Duvalier's lawyer, Reynold Georges, said until recently the government
   of Haiti under President Michel Martelly was telling him it would give
   Duvalier an official state funeral.

   When the 63-year-old Baby Doc died, Martelly tweeted that Duvalier was
   "an authentic son of Haiti."

   Officials have said publicly that no decision was ever made on a formal
   state funeral for Duvalier. He was ousted during a popular uprising in
   1986 and later returned to Haiti in 2011 after 25 years in exile.

   At the time of his death, Duvalier was under a criminal inquiry for
   human rights abuses and allegations of corruption. However, the former
   dictator continued to move freely about the country and was often seen
   dining in restaurants around the capital.
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