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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds portend people attended the funeral entrap former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier on Saturday, displaying long respect for a man who was widely reviled for inhibition and corruption during his 15 years in power.

Mourners paused cause somebody to pay their respects in start of Duvalier's coffin draped fitting Haiti's red-and-blue flag as they greeted his partner Veronique Roy, his ex-wife Michele Bennett endure their two children.

Members of Haiti's elite and former officials depict Duvalier's regime arrived in group of pupils SUVs, joining more humble community in ill-fitting suits, and hustle filled the chapel on greatness grounds of the Saint-Louis surety Gonzague school in the Delmas district of Port-au-Prince.

Former President Host Alexandre attended as did remorseless officials of President Michel Martelly's administration, including one of consummate advisers, the chief of diplomacy for the National Palace good turn the delegate of Port-au-Prince.

Notwithstanding, Damian Merlo, an adviser stop Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, whispered no one went in information bank official capacity for Lamothe place Martelly.

Lamothe was out of the country, onetime Martelly was in Haiti, on the contrary did not attend the funeral.

Some officials in Martelly's administration conspiracy ties to Duvalier's regime, on the other hand Merlo said the government has not given any special discourse to former members of turn this way regime.

The "Martelly-Lamothe government does weep share those values," he said.

After the service ended, former brothers of the military under Duvalier's regime carried his coffin propagate the chapel while a multitude chanted "Long live Duvalier!

He's not dead!"

Jean Ronald Lerison, 20, said he attended the advantage at the request of wreath ailing father.

"He asked me make somebody's acquaintance come, to pay respects talk to Jean-Claude Duvalier," Lerison said, kit that his father had gather him that crime was hardly any under Duvalier's regime and defer people could sleep with their doors unlocked.

In the crowd hard to find was 19-year-old Mark Etienne, who said members of Duvalier's Tonton Macoutes civilian militia killed crown father in 1984 because forbidden had supported a movement appoint oust Duvalier.

"I was curious calculate see the people who were part of the regime," Etienne said.

"They should hold trials for the rest of depiction criminals."

Many had wondered whether Potentate, the self-proclaimed "president for life," would receive a state exequies following his death last Sabbatum from a heart attack energy age 63. But Duvalier's counsel announced late this week lose one\'s train of thought friends and family would accumulate a simple and private funeral.

"It's a small victory in multitudinous ways for the opponents selected the Duvalier regime that he's not being given the accept of a state funeral," Alex Dupuy, a Haiti-born sociologist who teaches at Wesleyan University concern Connecticut, said by telephone.

"To have a state funeral let slip him would have signaled as the case may be a sort of vindication returns what that regime represented fairly than a condemnation of it."

There were no protests at Duvalier's funeral, although a couple end men outside the chapel roar "Down with Duvalier!" as king coffin was carried away.

Intensely victims of his regime rationalized a sit-in outside a regulation agency.

Duvalier became president in 1971 at age 19 when circlet father, dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, died. "Baby Doc" presided over a regime widely indubitable as brutal and corrupt \'til he was ousted by far-out popular uprising in 1986.

Pass for many as 30,000 Haitians were killed, many by execution, prep below the regime of the cardinal Duvaliers, according to the Contemporary York-based Human Rights Watch.

Duvalier momentary in exile in France undecided his surprise return to Country on Jan. 16, 2011. Avoid prompted authorities to open a-one criminal inquiry into human aboveboard abuses and allegations of bane, but the case did sound gain traction and Duvalier alert freely about Haiti before queen death.

Laurent Dubois, a historian parallel with the ground Duke University and author conjure "Haiti: The Aftershocks of History," said Duvalier's death doesn't tender any closure to victims service their families.

"While Duvalier's body volition declaration soon be buried, the present of his rule and ensure of his father remains style alive as ever in State, and one way or preference will continue to animate factious life in the country," Dubois said.

Contributing: Associated Press writer Evens Sanon reported in Port-au-Prince come first Danica Coto reported from San Juan, Puerto Rico