TV5 Monde feature on the film 'The Dictator Hunter"

TV5 Monde feature on the film "The Dictator Hunter," by Dutch director Klaartje Quirijns, which explores the efforts of Reed Brody of Human Rights Watch to bring former president Hissène Habré of Chad to trial for killing thousands of his own countrymen in the 1980s.




In "The Dictator Hunter," Quirijns follows Brody's quest, in concert with Souleymane Guengueng, a Chadian refugee now exiled in New York, to change the system in which dictators can literally get away with mass murder.




In 2006, the government of Senegal -- where Habré has lived in exile since being overthrown -- agreed to an African Union request to put Habré on trial.




The film, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film, was produced by Pieter van Huystee Film in the Netherlands.




"Wonderfully suspenseful... The camera loves Reed Brody, a frumpy, eloquent, razor-sharp American human rights lawyer"

- The Toronto Globe and Mail




"The movie places politics in the service of a unstoppably determined humanity."

- The Toronto Star

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« Brody se fait le porte-parole des victimes tchadiennes -- opposants torturés, veuves de militants assassinés. Son travail finit par payer : l'ancien dictateur, accusé de 40 000 assassinats, sera jugé au Sénégal. Ce résultat est d'autant pus symbolique que les poursuites émanent de victimes, et non d'un tribunal international, contrairement au cas du Darfour. » - le Monde




More information on "The Dictator Hunter" can be found at:

www.thedictatorhunter.com




For more information on the Hissène Habré case, please visit: http://www.hrw.org/french/themes/habre.htm (Français)

http://hrw.org/justice/habre/ (English)

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[moneyindabank]

Long live Hissène Habré.

[gwbushTheePoS]

clementabaifouta

Some people might think ''you'' have a bit of respect for Murderers when ''you'' call them Mr.

Hissène Habré is a PoS

g. w. bush is a PoS

Mr. Brody is someone to respect.

[clementabaifouta]

My name is Clément Abaifouta, Im the President of the Chadian Association of victims of Political Repression &Crimes. We, as victims, have suffered great loses under Mr.Habrés dictatorship. Weve been fighting for 19 years to bring him to justice with the help of Reed Brody and his team. They have allowed us to make our voice hear on the international scene & were now very close to the trial weve been waiting for so long. For that were deeply grateful to them.

[guyfromchad]

These people that you were seeing are fakes and were paid to cry and add a bit of drama in the case

[guyfromchad]

There is one more thing that makes his documentary very inappropriate. In the original documentary, there were old Chadian women Christians and Muslims gathering at the same place for the same victims and praying together for those who were supposedly killed. Not only in Chad but in many third world countries people of different believes don't pray together. Moreover, in Chad especially when we talk about the old generations, Christians and muslims don't sympathize each other.

[guyfromchad]

When you look closer to his published videos, there is something irrelative to the Chadian societies. In Chad, people don't celebrate for the memories of dead people after many years. It may sound weird but we just don't do it. If we do, we would have made a lot of demonstrations against the Libyan dictator Kadhafi who killed more than 100,000 chadians even if Rudy Brody doesn't want to hear about him.

[guyfromchad]

On the eyes of many, Rudy Brody is a dictator hunter. That's exactly what he wanted to hear and leave behind him as his legacy. He invested a lot of his money and time in some particular cases. The case of Hissein Habré, the ex president of Chad is the most compelling and lucrative for him. In the name of "victims" Mr. Brody started creating baseless cases and unreliable documentaries.