For many years he was director of the Ecumenical Center for Human Rights based in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, and a leader of the National Congress of Democratic Movements, a moderate socialist political party also known as KONAKOM.
[4] He received a PhD in Romance languages and culture from Princeton University in 1977 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Antilia retrouvee: La poésie noire antillaise a travers l'oeuvre de Claude McKay, Luis Pales Matos, Aimé Césaire.
He settled in Santo Domingo, the capital city of the Dominican Republic, where he began ministering to other Haitian exiles.
Later that year,[6] Duvalier's Tonton Macoutes militia kidnapped Bajeux's mother, his two sisters, and two of his brothers from their home in the middle of the night.
[9] Following his time in Santo Domingo, Bajeux traveled to Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, where he spent one year editing a collection of documents about the history of Latin America.
[4] During his years in San Juan he taught literature and religion at the university and gained prominence writing about Haiti.
The World Council of Churches helped him found the Ecumenical Center for Human Rights in Santo Domingo in 1979.
[11] He recounted to The New Yorker that he had to reclaim his family's house from Macoutes who said Duvalier's lieutenant Madame Max Adolphe had given it to them.
[15] He organized demonstrations against military rule by Henri Namphy[19] and against the return to Haiti of Williams Régala and Roger Lafontant, former interior ministers under Duvalier.
At first Bajeux remained in Haiti, continuing his human rights advocacy[11] and publishing the first bilingual (French and Creole) edition of his country's Constitution.
[1] He blamed the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haïti (FRAPH), a death squad backed by the army that targeted Aristide supporters.
[10] However, he later turned against Aristide, as did his other Holy Ghost/Spiritan fathers joining an opposition movement calling for him to leave the country during his second term as president.
In 1981, while in exile in San Juan, he criticized President Ronald Reagan's order that the U.S. Coast Guard repel ships suspected of carrying illegal immigrants from Haiti.