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Old wounds open in Chad as ex-dictator Habre goes on trial


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N'Djamena (AFP) - A quarter of a century after Chad's brutal dictator Hissene Habre was toppled, many in the central African state are grimly satisfied to see him finally being tried for crimes against humanity. "That cell was hell," said Abdourahmane Gueye, one of more than 4,000 victims who are party to the case against Habre, whose trial opens in Senegal's capital Dakar on Monday. Gueye, the only Senegalese person who has launched a case against Habre, was accused of being a spy in 1987 and locked up for seven months.

 

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