1915-Jul.-27
1915-Jul.-27: President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam orders the execution of 167 political prisoners held in the Port-au-Prince gaol.
1915-Jul.-27: President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam orders the execution of 167 political prisoners held in the Port-au-Prince gaol. This act of state violence provoked a massive uprising that resulted in the president’s brutal death at the hands of an angry mob.
Source · p. 145
Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 145