Is Hussein Habre guilty or not?

by | Nov 8, 2016 | Uncategorized |

 

   In the International Court of Justice, the judges and advocates were discussing the case of Hussein Habre, the former president of the republic of Chad, who ruled from 1982 until 1990. During his 8 years rule, he committed crimes against humanity, assaulted women, imprisoned citizens,etc.The citizens then overthrew him in 1990, Belgium decided to extradite him from Chad to Belgium on behalf of the Chadian citizens and Belgian citizens with Chadian origins;  Habre made a political asylum to Senegal and Senegal accepted it.

     During Belgium’s advocates’ opening speech, they stated that “Chad lived in chaos and in a place where they were afraid to give their opinion, there was gender based violence and sexual harassments; more than 3,000 people were victims of rape, violence, hunger, poverty and all kinds of torture, as stated in article 4 H and article 295 paragraph 1. And if these  things did not happen, Chad would have not been what it is now”.  Senegal replied  “you have no proof or evidence that Habre actually committed these crimes. These crimes were not illegal during his period of ruling, and they were outside Senegalese territories.”

    Senegal also said that this law was not illegal during Habre’s ruling period (ex: post  facto) so the former president should not be considered guilty. Moreover, the Belgian advocates replied that even though theses crimes were not illegal, Senegal itself ratified the convention against torture in 1984 and the country didn’t take this into consideration and that itself is illegal.

      As the advocates left, the judges talked about how the Senegalese advocates said in their opening speech that Hussein Habre is innocent and during their other speeches they contradicted themselves by stating that he is not fully innocent. They also talked about how the Senegalese advocates believe that Habre is innocent but they signed the convention against torture so they yet again contradicted themselves.

      In conclusion, the judges and advocates still have not decided whether or not Hussein Habre should be prosecuted or extradited. But this is only the first day and we’re all excited to hear the final verdict.

-Laila Shaban, Farah Ebeid and Laila Shokry

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