Haiti to hold national funeral for 'Baby Doc' Duvalier

October 06, 2014 21:47

Haiti is to hold a national funeral for former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, the government said today, a decision that dismayed the victims of his regime.

"It should be a national funeral, because that's what the protocol requires, as he was a head of state," Lucien Jura, spokesman for President Michel Martelly, told AFP.

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