[haguruka.com] TR: {UAH} Allan/Pojim/WBK: Chad ex-dictator found guilty, sentence to life for abuses - The Washington Post
Dear netters,
Anyone would like this Habre's judgment, not because it is based on a fair or political trial, but because at least who mistreated people is finally mistreated as well.
Sir Habre, like other likes, was a president and of course abused mercilessly Chadians as other bad rulers especially African ones do. The great chance was through Sir Deby who performed a coup that put Sir Habre out of power.
One would be amazed by asking if African Union (AU) should allow and support coups that help liberate people from killer dictators.
Judges have little role and salvation influence as they only intervene after dictators are pushed away. So their work is like that of vultures clearing a Buffalo or other big animal, but only when dead or killed, not before. And in fact sir Habre is now nothing else, but a simple refugee like poor Marechal Mobutu was just before dying in Marocco.
All other things we see are a battle between those who benefited with and those who were threatened by Sir Habre when in Office.
In reality, a simple retaliation law or an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth sir/madam.
Envoyé : lundi 30 mai 2016 14:10
À : Ugandans At Heart
Objet : {UAH} Allan/Pojim/WBK: Chad ex-dictator found guilty, sentence to life for abuses - The Washington Post
Chad ex-dictator found guilty, sentence to life for abuses
DAKAR, Senegal — Chad's former dictator Hissene Habre was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment for abuses during his time in power, Judge Gberdao Gustave Kam said Monday at the end of the trial that began in July 2015.
Cheers and fists pumping the air greeted the judge's ruling from scores of Habre's former prisoners and their supporters.
Habre's trial by the Extraordinary African Chambers in the Senegalese courts began in July last year. It is the first trial in which the courts of one country are prosecuting the former ruler of another for alleged human rights crimes. More than 90 witnesses testified.
Habre was convicted of being responsible for thousands of deaths and tortures in prisons during his rule from 1982 to 1990. A 1992 Chadian Truth Commission accused Habre's government of systematic torture, saying that 40,000 people died during his rule. It placed particular blame on his political police force.
The ex-dictator, who has lived in Senegal's capital, Dakar, since fleeing Chad in 1990, has denounced his trial as being politically motivated. He and his supporters have disrupted proceedings several times with shouting and singing. He refused legal representation but the court appointed him Senegalese lawyers.
Chad's government, led by President Idriss Deby, who served as Habre's military adviser before pushing him from power, supported the trial.
The trial of Habre was forged by many of those who had been jailed by Habre's government and who have campaigned for his prosecution for more than 15 years.
"This case was not started by a prosecutor in the Hague, or by the Security Council. The architects, the visionaries of this case, are the Chadian victims themselves and their supporters," said Reed Brody, counsel for Human Rights Watch who has been working on the case since 2000. The work by the survivors to bring Habre to justice influenced all aspects of the trial including the way the charges were framed, he said.
Habre was first indicted by a Senegalese judge in 2000, but legal twists and turns over a decade saw the case go to Belgium and then finally back to Senegal after unwavering pursuit by the survivors.
In 2001, the police force's archives were discovered on the floor of its headquarters in Chad, records which went back to Habre's rule and mention more than 12,000 victims of Chad's detention network.
The extraordinary court was formed by Senegal and the African Union to try Habre for the crimes that took place during his rule.
A second set of hearings on damages for the more than 4,000 registered civil parties will take place in the coming days. The defense has about 15 days to appeal. If they do, an appeals court must be set up.
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-Ce dont jai le plus peur, cest des gens qui croient que, du jour au lendemain, on peut prendre une société, lui tordre le cou et en faire une autre.
- The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
- I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
- The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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