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Former Chadian President Hissene Habre KIlled By COVID-19

Former Chadian president Hissene Habre is dead.

Glamtush reports that former Chadian president, Hissene Habre, who was serving a life term in Senegal for war crimes and crimes against humanity, has died, the Senegalese justice ministry said.

He was 79.

“Habre is in his Lord’s hands,” Senegal’s Justice Minister Malick Sall said on the TFM television channel, announcing Habre’s death on Tuesday, August 24.

Habre succumbed to COVID-19 on Tuesday in Dakar’s main hospital, Chad’s consulate told the AFP news agency. He fell ill in jail about a week ago and was taken to a clinic in the capital before being moved to the Hospital Principal, where he died.

Habre seized power in Chad in 1982, fleeing to Senegal in 1990 after he was overthrown.

The former leader was jailed in Senegal’s capital Dakar in 2016 after an African Union-backed trial over abuses committed during years of iron-fisted rule in Chad.

About 40,000 people are estimated to have been killed under Habre’s leadership.

However, Habre’s supporters continued to lobby for his freedom while he was in prison in Dakar.

The ex-dictator was released on a two-month furlough last year, designed to protect him from the coronavirus.

Reed Brody, a lawyer who represented Habre’s victims, said in a statement on Tuesday, August 24, that there had been calls for the former leader to be vaccinated against the virus.

He added that Habre will “go down in history as one of the world’s most pitiless dictators, a man who slaughtered his own people to seize and maintain power.”

Angela Davies

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