'Baby Doc’ Duvalier pledges £5m aid to Haiti

[CatWoman]

fitting, since he stole it from the country in the first place....

Haiti’s reclusive former dictator has pledged £5m aid to his former subjects and expressed “complete solidarity” with their suffering since the earthquake.



Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as “Baby Doc”, who lives in exile in Paris, emailed a reporter to say he wanted to donate money.

He said that he would officially ask the Foundation set up in the name of his late mother, Simone Ovide Duvalier, to transfer the $8 million (£5 million) to the American Red Cross for relief work.

Mr duvalier, whose regime was a byword for brutality and corruption, said: “It is with great horror and a profound emotion, but also with a very great concern, that I have monitored the murderous and devastating consequences of the terrible earthquake that has so piteously struck our country.

“In these hours of great national distress, my thoughts go out to the wounded, the victims, particularly the children and the youth, and their families and loved ones.”

In the email, published in the online newspaper The Daily Beast, the 59-year-old called for the “entire nation” to “mobilise to overcome these woes”.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7004813/Haiti-earthquake-Baby-Doc-Duvalier-pledges-5m-aid.html

[SteppingRazor]

1. Gee, how nice of him to give them a tiny sliver of the money he stole from them.

:eyes:

[no_hypocrisy]

2. More like he's returning 5 million pounds/$8 million to Haiti.

[Captain Hilts]

3. Don't accept it. nt

[Warpy]

8. Are you NUTS?

They need every dime they can get and if they can squeeze something that family stole back out of them, it's all good.

[laylah]

13. + a gazillion nt

[CatWoman]

14. and add to that

IT'S THEIR MONEY!!!!!!

[Captain Hilts]

18. He should be arrested and it should be seized. nt

[joeybee12]

4. Yeah, maybe if he gave back ALL the money he stole...

it would help...and maybe if he had done right thing for the people there, like decent housing, roads, hospitals, the devastation wouldn't be so bad.

[Lucy Goosey]

5. I love that he emailed a reporter first.

Dude, you should have done it anonymously.

[harun]

16. That is about as crass as it get's.

[derby378]

6. This is a tough one

Should the Haitian government refuse the donation and tell Baby Doc to go to Hell? Yipes.

[Hardrada]

7. Take it as a down payment.

[Spazito]

9. No, it was the Haitians money to begin with...

I say take it while making sure everyone know what despicable, evil piece of scum he is and always will be.

[virgogal]

10. Chutzpah to the max.

[YOY]

11. That took balls.

And apparently someone is trying to clear his family's 'good name'...good luck with that slimeball.

[CatWoman]

12. Interesting articles I just finished reading

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/bribe/2009/05/haiti-the-long-road-to-recovery.html

and

http://tinyurl.com/yd8req5

[harun]

15. Jeez, how much money did this guy steal from them to still have 8 million

available to donate?

[Robb]

17. £250m at least. nt

[Gold Metal Flake]

19. So much Hatian money is in France.