Jean-Claude Bajeux
Encyclopedia
Jean-Claude Bajeux was a professor and director of the Ecumenical Center for Human Rights
in Port-au-Prince
, Haiti
, and also one of the leaders of the political party the National Congress of Democratic Movements, also known as Konakom.
He was forced into exile by President François Duvalier in February 1964 for trying to organize Haiti’s Catholic clergy in protest against the expulsion of the Jesuit order, He returned to Haiti in early 1986, after the collapse of the 29-year Duvalier family dictatorship.
He and his family left Haiti again in October 1993 after their house was attacked by members of the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haïti
(FRAPH), a paramilitary organization trying to undermine support for ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
. The Bajeux family returned after Aristide was restored to power in 1994 and he became minister of culture. But he soon fell out with the government and became a fierce critic of Aristide. He died of lung cancer on August 5, 2011, aged 79, at his home in Port-au-Prince.
Ecumenical Center for Human Rights
The Ecumenical Center for Human Rights is a human rights organisation founded in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1979 to monitor the situation in Haiti under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier. The center became a leading critic of the abject living conditions of Haitian cane cutters in...
in Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince is the capital and largest city of the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The city's population was 704,776 as of the 2003 census, and was officially estimated to have reached 897,859 in 2009....
, Haiti
Haiti
Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...
, and also one of the leaders of the political party the National Congress of Democratic Movements, also known as Konakom.
He was forced into exile by President François Duvalier in February 1964 for trying to organize Haiti’s Catholic clergy in protest against the expulsion of the Jesuit order, He returned to Haiti in early 1986, after the collapse of the 29-year Duvalier family dictatorship.
He and his family left Haiti again in October 1993 after their house was attacked by members of the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haïti
Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haïti
The Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti was a far-rightparamilitary group organized in mid-1993. Its goal was to undermine support for the popular Catholic priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who served less than eight months as Haïti's president before being deposed, on 29 September 1991,...
(FRAPH), a paramilitary organization trying to undermine support for ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Bertrand Aristide is a Haitian former Catholic priest and politician who served as Haiti's first democratically elected president. A proponent of liberation theology, Aristide was appointed to a parish in Port-au-Prince in 1982 after completing his studies...
. The Bajeux family returned after Aristide was restored to power in 1994 and he became minister of culture. But he soon fell out with the government and became a fierce critic of Aristide. He died of lung cancer on August 5, 2011, aged 79, at his home in Port-au-Prince.
Works
- Textures (poetry)
- Mòso chwazi: Pawòl ki ekri an Kreyòl Ayisyen, (a bilingual anthology of Haitian Creole literature).
- «Comme si une puissance souterraine avait décidé de nous rayer de la carte» Libération