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A new study by the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) discloses documents prepared by Hissene Habré’s own Documentation and Security Directorate (DDS) to prove he was personally aware of the deaths of political opponents. Habré has been accused of killing and systematically torturing thousands of political opponents during his rule in Chad, from 1982 to 1990.
It has been 10 years since his indictment, yet despite strong evidence, he will not be tried until Senegal (which agreed to host the trial in 2006) receives €27.4 million from the international community to fund the trial.
The Documentation and Security Directorate (DDS) pursued opponents and operated notorious prisons during the Habré regime. The files were discovered by chance by Human Rights Watch in 2001 at the abandoned Security Directorate’s headquarters in N’Djamena, the Chadian capital.
FURTHER RESOURCES
Copies of the HRDAG report in English and French are available at: http://www.hrdag.org/about/chad.shtml
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