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1987-Nov.-29

1987-Nov.-29: Duvalierist thugs massacre voters in line at polling stations, forcing the cancellation of the election.

1987-Nov.-29: Duvalierist thugs massacre voters in line at polling stations, forcing the cancellation of the election. This brutal attack crushed the immediate hope for a peaceful democratic transition following the fall of Duvalier.

Source Trouillot, Trouillot Remixed, 412; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, xi