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Prosper Avril
Matthieu Prosper Avril
(born December 12, 1937) is a
Haitian
political figure who was
President of Haiti
from 1988 to 1990. A trusted member of
François Duvalier
's Presidential Guard and adviser to
Jean-Claude Duvalier
, Lt. Gen. Avril led the
September 1988 Haitian coup d'état
against a transition military government installed after Jean-Claude Duvalier's 1986 overthrow. He was President until March 1990, in a period which according to
Amnesty International
was "marred by serious human rights violations". He was arrested in 2001, but released in March 2004 after the
2004 Haitian coup d'état
overthrew
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
.
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