Anti-Duvalier protest movement the "Milice de Volontaires de la Sécurité Nationale" (Militia of National Security Volunteers). When Duvalier died in 1971, his son, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier took over (confirmed by the 1971 constitutional referendum) and the force continued throughout his regime and maintained the same violent presence. Widespread problems of starvation and unemployment soon grew rampant. On 23 May 1984, citizens in the city of Gonaïves began protests against Duvalier’s government calling it "Operation Déchoukaj," () which consequently led to police officers publicly beating a pregnant woman, who soon died. Activists’ listed grievances under Duvalier’s regime, including general brutality against civilians and
Jean-Claude Guillebaud Jean-Claude Guillebaud Jean-Claude Guillebaud (21 May 1944, Algiers) is a French writer, essayist, lecturer and journalist. A journalist at the daily "Sud Ouest", then at the newspaper "Le Monde" and the weekly "Le Nouvel Observateur", Jean-Claude Guillebaud also directed the organisation Reporters Without Borders. In 1972 he was the recipient of the Prix Albert-Londres. He is a member of the sponsorship committee of the of the culture of peace and non-violence. In 2005, Guillebaud published "". He kept a weekly column on the life of the media in the television supplement of "Le Nouvel Observateur" before replacing Jacques Julliard as