Hissène Habré: The victims demand justice!

The victims of the Chad's exiled former dictator, Hissène Habré, have been seeking to bring him to justice for almost 20 years, but Senegal continues to drag its feet. Habré's one-party regime (1982-1990) was marked by widespread atrocities, including systematic torture and waves of ethnic killings. The files of Habré's political police, the Documentation and Security Directorate (DDS) reveal the names of 1,208 persons who were killed or died in detention and 12,321 victims of torture or arbitrary detention. This short video summarizes the case against Habré and the victims' long quest for justice. For more information, see http://www.hrw.org/en/habre-case.

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News & Politics

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• Habré
• Chad
• Reed Brody
• Jacqueline Moudeina
• Torture
• Justice
• Victims
• Senegal
• Crimes

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The complicity of the U.S. needs to be addressed here. It was the Reagan administration that, through covert paramilitary assisstance, helped to bring Habre to power. Additionally, the U.S. furnished Habre with lavish grants of military assisstance and provided training and monthly infusions of monetary aid to the DDS. The U.S. is also known to have funded a regional intelligence consortium known as "mosaic." Habre is known to have used "mosaic" to pursue his opponents internationally.