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Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier was charged with corruption, theft and misappropriation of funds by a judge in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday. After a fifteen-year reign of terror followed by a 25-year exile in Europe, \u2018Baby Doc\u2019 Duvalier returned to his home country late Sunday night without explanation, telling the press that he simply wanted to \u2018help Haiti\u2019. Duvalier\u2019s true political ambitions are unknown. Human rights organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have encouraged Haitian leaders to charge Duvalier for the crimes against humanity committed during his administration. Like his father, Francois \u2018Papa Doc\u2019 Duvalier, Baby Doc used the Tonton Macoutes, a secret police force, to imprison, torture and kill thousands of Haitian citizens. According to a confidential diplomatic cable leaked by Wikileaks, Lisa Kubiske, the US charge d\u2019affairs in the neighboring Dominican Republic, warned Dominican foreign minister Carlos Morales Troncoso about Duvalier\u2019s possible return to Haiti in 2006. Kubiske was concerned that the return of either Duvalier or former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide would send the country into a tailspin during its highly volatile elections. Former president Aristide, Haiti\u2019s first democratically elected president, has also recently expressed a desire to return to Haiti to help rebuild the country. Aristide, who was ousted in 2004 and exiled to South Africa, still remains popular among Haitians. Aristide has repeatedly applied for a Haitian passport but still has not received a response from the Haitian government. <\/p>\n