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In 1986, when the then-dictator of Haiti, Jean-Claude Duvalier, finally fled,  I suggested that the international community needed to learn the important lesson that great violence may occur when a tyrant resists pressure to leave office. “What happens when a dictator finds it hard to leave,” I wrote, “because he…