so how is it possible that jean-claude duvalier is back and free to walk the streets of haiti once againi asked duvalier to join me to talk about his future and haiti's. >> the lawyer for the former president jean-claude duvalier called us up and said there is a place where we might be able to meet up with the former president. we are heading there now to see if we can get an interview with him. >> ah, president. >> mr. president. yes. >> we met at the peak of a hilltop restaurant in haiti's capital. no body guards, no entour an, just his lawyer. >> most people accused of mass murder aren't able to walk away free, like big shots. >> this is a man accused of thousands of killings. of systematic torture. of being a brutal dictator. and he's just being treated with all the respect of a high dignitary. >> duvalier wouldn't answer most questions. but tells me haiti is worse today than when he ran the country. [ in french ] >> we were called the pearl of the antilles. there was security. people worked. you could walk around port o prince like anybody else. >> paramilitary thugs who are killing

duvall, a political prisoner was tortured and starved along with hundreds of jorge sans under jean claude duvalierown as baby doc. >> they put you in a cell with 220 people depending on how many people died that week. >> reporter: jimmy carter sent ambassador young to haiti with a list of people he wanted freed from prison. the duvalier regime ended when he fled to europe to escape the charges of his victims. how is it that he's tre free t k streets again. i asked to speak with him. he said haiti was worse today than when he ran the country. >> we were called the pearl of the antilles. you could walk around port-au-prince without being assaulted. >> that's a classic dictator line. of course, he had the military who really were killing people. >> reporter: gary pierre is the founder of the haitian times and professor at the graduate school of journalism. >> it is a perfect time to return in chaos. no one is worried about what did he because we have bigger things to deal with. that's why he came back when he did. >> reporter: bobby duvall did not believe it at first when rumors spread that duvalier