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Sarodj Bertin
Haitian lawyer and dembow singer (born 1986)
Sarodj Bertin Durocher (born April 4, 1986) is a Haitian lawyer and beauty pageant titleholder.[1]
Early life and education
Bertin was born in Haiti, and is the daughter of Mireille Durocher and Jean Bertin.
Bertin's mother, who was a lawyer and an outspoken critic of then president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was murdered on March 28, 1995, in Port-au-Prince.[1] She was shot in broad daylight while being driven by a client, Eugene "Junior" Baillergeau, away from the U.S.
military's Camp Democracy headquarters. Baillergeau, who was killed along with Durocher Bertin, was in litigation with the U.S. military over damages a U.S. helicopter had allegedly done to his private plane.
After her mother's murder, she was sent to the Dominican Republic where she grew up in exile.[2]
In the Dominican Republic, she learned Spanish and English, in addition to her native French and Haitian Creole.