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
Too bad he’s not… ‘a hanging Chad’
Oooh, I bet it isn’t a nice prison either.
So many good things out of Africa!
It should be the model of every country in the Western World!
izlamo delenda est …
And after he serves his life sentence they should hang him!
Is it just me, or does he look like the guy in our White House right now?
It would have been simpler and cheaper to sentence him to one day in prison and than see to it that it is also a life sentence. If you get my drift.
40,000? I could do that in a weekend.
Forced Slavery??
I thought only white folks did that?
If we had Colonialism this crap wouldn’t happen.
He would have been hanged long before he caused any real problems.