HISC70H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tonton Macoute, Haitian Diaspora, Cuban Revolution
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1974, 1980, 1993-1995: group initiation of discussion. Refugee a person who is forced to flee from persecution and who is located outside of their home country. Convention refugee a person who meets the refugee definition in the 1951 geneva. This definition is used in canadian law and is widely accepted internationally. To meet the definition, a person must be outside their country of origin and have a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion. Refugee claimant or asylum seeker a person who has fled their country and is asking for protection in another country. Refugees as defined by the canadian council for refugees (http://ccrweb. ca/) Fra(cid:374)(cid:272)ois du(cid:448)alier (cid:894)(cid:862)papa do(cid:272)(cid:863)(cid:895) (cid:272)o(cid:373)es to po(cid:449)er i(cid:374) epte(cid:373)(cid:271)er 19(cid:1009)(cid:1011) (in a rigid election) He organizes a paramilitary group known as the tonton macoute following a failed attempt to overthrow his government in 1958.
