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The term Jérémie Vespers refers to a massacre that took place in August, September and October 1964 in the
Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...
an town of
Jérémie Jérémie ( ht, Jeremi) is a commune and capital city of the Grand'Anse department in Haiti. It had a population of about 31,000 at the 2003 census. It is relatively isolated from the rest of the country. The Grande-Anse River flows near th ...
. It took place after a group of 13 young Haitians calling themselves "
Jeune Haiti Jeune Haiti ("Young Haiti") was a group of Haitian exiles active in New York during the 1960s. In 1964 they launched an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the regime of François Duvalier, also known as Papa Doc. 1964 overthrow attempt Thirteen y ...
" landed on August 6, 1964 at Petite-Rivière-de-Dame-Marie with the intention of overthrowing the regime of François 'Papa Doc' Duvalier. The victims were killed one by one by the Haitian Army, until the last two survivors, Louis Drouin and Marcel Numa, were captured alive, brought back to
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and shot in public against a cemetery wall on November 12, 1964.


Terminology

The massacre was called the "vespers" because many of the families killed by the regime are remembered as the families who took many aforementioned "vesper" picnic excursions.


Victims

Several of the group were from the town of Jérémie. During two months that the army and the resistance group fought in the hills, the regime ordered the arrest and murder of Jeune Haiti's family members. 27 people were murdered, ranging in age from 85-year-old Mrs Chenier Villedrouin to 2-year-old Régine Sansaricq. The murdered were: * Louis Drouin Sr., father of Louis Drouin Jr. * Louise Degraff, his wife * Guy Drouin, brother of Louis Drouin Jr. * Alice Drouin, sister of Louis Drouin Jr. * Gérard Guilbaud, Alice's husband * Mrs. Chenier Villedrouin (née Corinne Sansaricq) (85 years old), mother of Guy and Victor Villedrouin * Victor Villedrouin * Roseline Drouin, Guy Villedrouin's wife and sister of Louis Drouin Jr. * Fernande Villedrouin, sister of Guy and Victor * Guy Villedrouin, brother of Victor Villedrouin * Adeline Chassagne, Victor Villedrouin's wife, and the aunt of Canadian indie rock band
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* Lisa Villedrouin(18 years old), their daughter * Frantz Villedrouin (16 years old) their son * Pierre Sansaricq * Louise Laforest, Pierre's wife * Jean-Claude Sansaricq, their son * Graziela Sansaricq, Jean-Claude's wife * Lily Sansaricq, sister of Pierre Sansaricq * Fred Sansaricq, son of Pierre * Hubert Sansaricq, son of Pierre * Reynold Sansaricq, son of Pierre * Marie-Catherine Sansaricq (10 years old) daughter of Pierre * Edith Laforest, Louise Laforest's sister * Jean-Pierre Sansaricq (6 years old), son of Jean-Claude and Graziela * Stéphane Sansaricq (4 years old), son of Jean-Claude and Graziela * Régine Sansaricq (2 years old), daughter of Jean-Claude and Graziela * Pierre-Richard Sansaricq * Alphonze Bazile, son of Pierre and Vesta Bazile


See also

* List of massacres in Haiti *Bishop
Guy Sansaricq Guy A. Sansaricq (October 6, 1934 – August 21, 2021) was a Haitian-American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn in New York from 2006 to 2010. He headed the Office of the Pastoral Care of Mi ...
, the Catholic bishop whose cousins were among the victims and who opposed the Duvalier regime


References


External links


Fordi9.com - The 13 of "Jeune Haiti"
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