Victims of Habré’s rule haven’t been paid a cent of the compensation due to them
WHAT happens when survivors of atrocities are granted a large sum of reparations but the court which ordered the reparations has disappeared and the person responsible for paying the reparations has died? CHRISTOPH SPERFELDT, Honorary Fellow, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne This is the question victims of the regime of former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré are facing. Habré, who ruled Chad from 1982 to 1990, died in late August this year from COVID-19 complications while serving a life sentence in Senegal for war crimes and crimes against humanity. His prison sentence was delivered in 2016, by the Extraordinary…
