{"id":39805,"date":"2013-07-03T16:43:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T13:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=39805"},"modified":"2013-07-03T16:43:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T13:43:02","slug":"habre-trial-former-chadian-president-charged-in-senegal-with-war-crimes-africa-news-39805","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/habre-trial-former-chadian-president-charged-in-senegal-with-war-crimes-africa-news-39805\/","title":{"rendered":"Habre Trial: Former Chadian President charged in Senegal with war crimes \/ Africa News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mr.<\/a>A special court in Senegal has officially charged ex-Chad leader, Hissene Habre with war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture in the Senegalese capital Dakar.<\/h1>\n

The former Chadian president was first indicted in Senegal in 2000 but the country’s courts ruled at the time that he could not be tried there.<\/p>\n

Mr. Habre seized power in a bloody coup d\u2019\u00e9tat in 1982 and ruled the country until 1990 when he was ousted as the president of the country.<\/p>\n

He fled to Senegal after he was deposed off power after eight years in power in 1990 and decided to seek refuge in Senegal with his nuclear family.<\/p>\n

The 70 year old was arrested on Sunday in his residence in Dakar and put before trial on Tuesday. He denied killing and torturing tens of thousands of his opponents.<\/p>\n

The charges against him date from 1982 when he was president. His alleged victims filed complaints under Belgium’s universal jurisdiction law to have him tried in anywhere he was.<\/p>\n

He was then charged by Belgium with crimes against humanity and torture in 2005, but Senegal refused to extradite him on four occasions.<\/p>\n

But he was put under house arrest together with his wife in 2005 and being guarded by two security guards. Analysts say Mr. Habre and his wife lived a low profile life in Dakar.<\/p>\n

In 2008, a court in Chad sentenced Mr. Habre to death in absentia for planning to overthrow the government but the sentence was stopped following a plea from the United Nations.<\/p>\n

Senegalese officials and the African Union had for years failed to take a decision on Mr. Habre\u2019s fate despite pressure from human rights groups.<\/p>\n

But members of Parliaments in Senegal passed a law in December last year, allowing a special African Union tribunal to be created in the country to try the former leader.<\/p>\n

Since he has denied the charges, he has been put in custody pending investigation into the case but political analyst say the official investigation will take up to 15 months.<\/p>\n

Issaka Adams \/ NationalTurk Africa News<\/b><\/p>\n

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