General information

Call No.:

392-2-4:2/1

Part of series

HU OSA 392-2-4 Video Recordings of WITNESS: WITNESS Partners' Raw Footage: Rencontre Africaine pour La Défense des Droits de l'Homme

Located at

DVD-ROM #2 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 392-2-4_002

Original Title

[Conference de presse sur le cas Hussein Habre] [1/2]

Date of production

2000-04

Date

2000

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

French

Duration

44 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Raw material

Contents Summary

On February 3, 2000, a Senegalese court indicted exiled Chadian dictator Hiss'ne Habre on torure charges under the principle of universal jurisdiction. It was the first time an African had been charged with atrocities by another African country. The charges were based on the Senegalese statute against torture as well as the UN Convention against Torture. A report of the 1992 Truth Commission accused Habre's regime of 40,000 political murders and 200,000 cases of torture. Habre ruled Chad from 1982 to 1990, when he was deposed and fled to Senegal.

Context

Associated Names

WITNESS (Copyright holder)

RADDHO (Copyright holder)