# Dechoukaj

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'''''Dechoukaj''''' is a [Haitian Creole](/source/Haitian_Creole) term that literally means "uprooting".  It is used primarily to refer to the political upheaval in [Haiti](/source/Haiti) following the exile of dictator [Jean-Claude Duvalier](/source/Jean-Claude_Duvalier) on February 7, 1986. During the ''dechoukaj'' many ordinary Haitian peasants and city dwellers exacted [revenge](/source/revenge) on their oppressors, including members of the ''[Tonton Macoute](/source/Tonton_Macoute)s''.<ref name=zephir52>Zephir (2004), p. 52.</ref>   The ''dechoukaj'' especially affected the institution of the Haitian [Vodou](/source/Haitian_Vodou) religion, whose principals and traditions had been strongly and directly tied to the dictators and used to exert control over the population.<ref>Taylor (2001), pp. 110, 122.</ref>

==See also==
*[History of Haiti](/source/History_of_Haiti)

==Notes==
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==References==
*{{citation|last=Taylor|first=Patrick|title=Nation Dance: Religion, Identity and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean|publisher=Bloomington Indiana University Press|date=2001|isbn=978-0-253-10858-6}}
*{{citation|last=Zephir|first=Flore |authorlink=Flore Zéphir |title=The Haitian Americans|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|date=2004|isbn=978-0-313-32296-9}}
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