After years of suffering under the rule of first Papa Doc and then his son President-for-Life Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier, Haitians had much to celebrate when it was all over. The celebrations began early on the morning of February 7, 1986 when word of Duvalier's leaving in exile to France on an American plane, began to spread. Not everyone shared the joy, as an estimated 15,000 members of the Tontons Macoutes, Duvalier's secret police, were left behind to face the wrath of the suppressed. Many fled into the countryside. Many others stayed in their neighborhoods where, if they were lucky, they were disarmed by the army and taken into custody. If they were unlucky, they were stoned to death by mobs of people who had had enough at the hands of the Tontons Macoute. In Gonaives on February 11, thousands of people celebrated their new found liberty in an outdoor mass and a parade including a mock funeral for the departed Baby Doc.