The secret police force created by Papa Doc Duvalier, the Tonton Macoute terrorized the citizens of what country?
Tonton Macoute for the national party. The lack of funds coming to the "Tonton Macoute" was result of being intercepted by the Duvalier dynasty who were sometimes taking nearly eighty percent of international aid to Haiti, then turning around to only pay forty-five percent of the debts the country owed. This continued until the "Tonton Macoute" were left on their own when Baby Doc fled the country with an estimated $900m. The "Tonton Macoutes" remained active even after the presidency of "Papa Doc" Duvalier's son "Baby Doc" ended with the Anti-Duvalier protest movement 1986. Massacres led by paramilitary groups spawned from the
Tonton Macoute disband in 1994. Tonton Macoute The Tonton Macoute () or simply the Macoute was a special operations unit within the Haitian paramilitary force created in 1959 by dictator François "Papa Doc" Duvalier. In 1970 the militia was renamed the ' (VSN"', Volunteers of the National Security). Haitians named this force after the Haitian mythological bogeyman, "Tonton Macoute" ("Uncle Gunnysack"), who kidnaps and punishes unruly children by snaring them in a gunny sack () and carrying them off to be consumed at breakfast. After the July 1958 Haitian coup d'état attempt against President François Duvalier, he purged the army and law