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Mr Habre’s trial is seen as a test case for justice in Africa
A verdict is due to in the landmark war crimes trial of Chad’s ex-leader Hissene Habre in Senegal.
It is the first such case in the world, with the courts of one country prosecuting the former ruler of another for alleged human rights abuses.
The prosecutor at the African Union-backed court in Dakar has requested a life sentence for Habre.
The ex-president is accused of ordering the killing of 40,000 people during his rule in the 1980s, charges he denies.
His critics dubbed him “Africa’s Pinochet” because of the notorious atrocities allegedly committed during his eight-year rule from 1982 to 1990.
Habre was arrested in Senegal, where he was exiled, in 2013.
Many of his alleged victims waged a campaign for him to face justice since his overthrow in 1990.
In 2005, a court in Belgium issued a warrant for his arrest, claiming universal jurisdiction but, after Senegal referred the issue to the African Union, the AU asked Senegal to try Mr Habre “on behalf of Africa”.
In 2013, a court in Chad sentenced him to death in absentia for crimes against humanity.
• Born in 1942 to ethnic Toubou herders in northern Chad
• Given scholarship to study political science in France
• First came to the world’s attention in 1974 when his rebels captured three European hostages to ransom for money and arms
• Seized power in 1982 allegedly with the help of the CIA ousted by current President Idriss Deby in 1990
• Accused of systematically persecuting groups he distrusted
• A former swimming pool was used as an underground prison where survivors say they were subjected to electric shocks, near-asphyxia and “supplice des baguettes”, when their heads were squeezed between sticks
Battle to bring Habre to court
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