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Ebadi, Tutu demand trial of mass murdering dictator |
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Posted 7/21/2010 at 4:19 PM by Bradlee A in Laureates News
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 A drawing of Hissene Habre, the former dictator of Chad who has been exiled in Senegal for 10 years.
Shirin Ebadi and Archbishop Desmond Tutu led hundreds of NGOs in demanding that mass murderer and torturer Hissene Habre, the exiled former dictator of Chad, be brought to trail.
In a signed appeal to the government of Senegal and the African Union, released by Human Rights Watch, prominent activists called for Mr. Habre to be brought to trial after 10 years in exile in Dakar.
"We, the undersigned [nongovernmental organizations] and individuals urge Senegal rapidly to begin legal proceedings against the exiled former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre, who is accused of thousands of political killings and systematic torture from 1982 to 1990," said the petition, released ahead of an African Union summit next week in Kampala, Uganda.
Mr. Habre was first indicted in Senegal in 2000 and would be the first dictator to be tried on African soil.
According to Human Rights Watch, Mr. Habre's "one-party regime was marked by widespread atrocities, including waves of ethnic campaigns." |
To read the full article at the Washington Times, click here.
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