Chad’s ex-ruler sentenced to life in prison – IOTW Report

Chad’s ex-ruler sentenced to life in prison

Survivors gave gruesome details of torture by Habre’s secret police. Victims suffered electric shocks, near-asphyxia, cigarette burns and gas squirted into their eyes. Some had their heads placed between sticks joined by rope, which was then twisted.

DAKAR, Senegal, May 30 (UPI) — Chad’s former leader, who was accused of being responsible for the deaths of 40,000 people during his rule from 1982 to 1990, was sentenced Monday to life in prison.

Hissene Habre had fled to Senegal after being toppled in a coup in 1990 in the central African nation.

“Hissene Habre, this court finds you guilty of crimes against humanity, rape, forced slavery, and kidnapping,” as well as war crimes, said Gberdao Gustave Kam, Burkinabe president of the Extraordinary African Chamber court in Senegal. “The court condemns you to life in prison.”  more

 

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