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Hissene Habre
(
Arabic
:
???? ????
?usa?n ?abr?
,
Chadian Arabic
:
pronounced
[hi?s?n ?habre]
;
French pronunciation:
[is?n ab?e]
; 13 August 1942 – 24 August 2021), also spelled
Hissen Habre
, was a
Chadian
politician who served as the
President of Chad
from 1982 until he was deposed in 1990.
France
and the
United States
gave them training, arms, and financing to rule Chad.
In May 2016, Habre was found guilty by an international court in
Senegal
of human-rights abuses, including rape, sexual slavery, and ordering the killing of 40,000 people, and sentenced to life in prison. He is the first former head of state to be convicted for human rights abuses in the court of another nation.
In 2020, during the
coronavirus pandemic
, he was released from prison so that he would not catch
COVID-19
. He went into house arrest for 60 days.
[1]
Habre died in
Dakar
,
Senegal
from
COVID-19
on 24 August 2021, one week after his 79th birthday.
[2]
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