Tontons macoutes

LC control no.	no2014127710
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Tontons macoutes *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Tonton-macoutes Tonton Macoute Milice de volontaires de la sécurité nationale MVSN
Beginning date	1959
Ending date	1986
Associated country	Haiti
Field of activity	National security
Found in	Duvalierist Government collection, 1958-1989: (Tontons macoutes) Gérard de Villiers. Requiem pour tontons macoutes, 2003 Force Armée d'Haïti documents, 1964-1987: (Tonton Macoute files) Papa Doc et les Tontons macoutes, la vérité sur Haïti, 1971 OCLC, Sept. 12, 2014 (hdg.: Tonton-macoutes) haitiancolors WWW site, Sept. 12, 2014 (The Duvaliers relied on a secret armed militia called Tonton macoutes (its official name was Volontaires de la Sécurité Nationale (National Security Volunteers), which imposed a rule of terror on the Haitian population) <http://www.haitiancolors.com/blog/list-of-murders-torture-and-other-crimes-by-duvalier> Wikipedia, Sept. 26, 2014 (A Tonton Macoute was a member of the Haitian paramilitary force created in 1959 by dictator François "Papa Doc" Duvalier; in 1970, the militia was officially renamed Milice de Volontaires de la Sécurité Nationale (Militia of National Security Volunteers or MVSN), perhaps named after the homonymous Italian Fascist paramilitary organization; Haitians named this force after the Haitian Creole mythological Tonton Macoute (Uncle Gunnysack) bogeyman, who kidnaps and punishes unruly children by snaring them in a gunnysack (macoute) and carrying them off to be consumed at breakfast; the group was formally disbanded in 1986, but its members continued to terrorize the populace) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonton_Macoute>
Associated language	fre