CHAD: The Habré Legacy

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Amnesty International hopes that The Habré Legacy, which highlights the extent of human rights violations committed under the Habré government (1982-1990), based on information published by Amnesty International at that time, will strengthen the campaign to end the impunity for the crimes committed in Chad. The document demonstrates the serious and widespread nature of violations
committed under Hissein Habré and stresses that violations have continued under his successor, President Idriss Déby. The Habré Legacy also highlights the complicity of foreign countries in the violations committed under the Habré government and the destructive consequences of the impunity which has
reigned for so long in Chad and which continues even today.

I INTRODUCTION

II SEEKING JUSTICE

i)The recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry on the crimes and abuses committed by
former president Habré and his partners or accomplices

ii) Amnesty International and Chad

III HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS COMMITTED UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF HISSEIN HABRÉ

i) The Direction de la Documentation et de la Sécurité (DDS)

ii) Extrajudicial executions by government forces

Armed opposition group combatants and prisoners of war who were captured and shot

Extrajudicial executions of actual or suspected opponents

Civilians killed in reprisals

Refugees killed outside the country or shot after having been repatriated, often forcibly

iii) Crimes committed during incommunicado detention

"Disappearances"

Torture

iv) Deaths in detention

v) Persecution of ethnic groups

IV HABRÉ'S IMPUNITY BECOMES DÉBY'S IMPUNITY

V THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

VI CONCLUSION

VII RECOMMENDATIONS

To the Senegalese authorities

To the Chadian authorities

To the international community

APPENDIX I

Forty years of unrest

The Hissein Habré years (1982-1990)

Chad under Idriss Déby

APPENDIX II
Amnesty International reports on Chad