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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Chad arrests top war crimes suspect |
| 2013-05-16 |
[Al Ahram] Chad has locked awayMaw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! a former political police chief suspected of torture and hundreds of politically motivated killings in the 1980s, the public prosecutors office said Wednesday. Mahamat Djibrine was in charge of the DDS political police under then president Hissene Habre, who is accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes and torture during his eight years in power in Chad, where rights groups say some 40,000 people were killed under his rule. Habre fled to Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... after he was ousted by incumbent President Idriss Deby in 1990. "Mahamat Djbrine was arrested after DDS victims filed a lawsuit," general prosecutor Massingaral Kagah told AFP. "He is accused of torture, acts of barbarism and illegal detention." The date of his arrest was not immediately known. He could be extradited to Senegal, which was mandated by the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... to try Habre in July 2006 -- though the country stalled the process for years under former president Abdoulaye Wade. |
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