As conflict racks the nation and madden at a political scandal grows,Haitians are rallying to the country’s founding father more than 200 years after his assassinationOn the walls across Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, or a stencilled image can be found. Depicting a figure in a Napoleonic-era cocked hat and military frock coat,it first emerged amid the country’s long-running political and security crisis that began final year.
The man portrayed is Jean-Jacques Dessalines – Emperor Jacques I of Haiti – the rebel general who defeated French forces at the battle of Vertières to found the state of Haiti in 1804. And it is not only in graffiti that Dessalines’s two centuries-old legacy has been seen in the recent months of political turmoil that has gripped the country.
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Source: theguardian.com