Death rate in Habre jails higher than for Japanese POWs, trial told

[WorldNews]

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The death rate among dissidents in Chadian dictator Hissene Habre's jails dwarfed the proportion of Americans who didn't survive the Japanese prisoner of war camps, his trial in Senegal heard Friday. The 73-year-old, who fled to Dakar after being deposed in 1990, is being prosecuted in his adoptive country for war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture during eight years of repression. Patrick Ball of the California-based Human Rights Data Analysis Group said he had calculated the mortality rate of political prisoners from 1985 to 1988 using reports completed by Habre's feared secret police.

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