Raoul Cédras [SEP] place of birth
Raoul Cédras
Joseph Raoul Cédras (born July 9, 1949) is a Haitian former military officer who was "de facto" ruler of Haiti from 1991 to 1994.
Background.
A mulatto, Cédras was educated in the United States and was a member of the US-trained "Leopard" Corps. He also trained with the Spanish military. Cédras was chosen by the US and France to be in charge of security for the Haitian general election, 1990–1991, and subsequently named Commander-in-Chief of
and when he returned to Haiti he was arrested on charges of human rights abuses including rape; however a judge ruled that the statute of limitations had expired on these crimes.
The Duvalier regimes would later become inspiration for dictator Raoul Cédras, who modeled the use of violence and torture in his regimes after that used by the Duvaliers, but used rape even more widely.
History Raoul Cédras (1991–1994).
In 1991 Haiti's democratically elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide was ousted in a military coup led by General Raoul Cédras