Duvalier employed an organization of ex-soldiers, criminals, and other loyalists to his regime called "Tontons Macoutes", Kreyòl for "Uncle Knapsack", a reference to the bogeyman of Haitian legend who would catch children and kidnap them in his knapsack.
Duvalier employed an organization of ex-soldiers, criminals, and other loyalists to his regime called "Tontons Macoutes". The term is Kreyòl for "Uncle Knapsack", a reference to the bogeyman of Haitian legend who would catch naughty children and kidnap them in his knapsack.