Prologue -- Hissene Habre, an "African Pinochet" -- Souleymane Guengueng -- Hissene Habre -- The Pinochet Precedent -- A President Can Be Prosecuted -- Building the Case -- Politics Enters the Picture -- The Terror Files -- A Grenade Attack -- Justice Comes to Chad -- A Banana Republic? -- Reed Brody's Schedule -- Habre Is Indicted, Again -- The Caliph -- A Senegalese Merchant -- "Reed Bloody, a Hateful Jew" -- Habremania -- Habrecadabra -- The Trade Union of Heads of State -- "On Behalf of Africa" -- Building a Court -- Mr. X -- La France -- Panic in Chad -- An "Insider" Witness -- "Hope Is the Last Thing to Vanish" -- A Bizarre Decision -- Backlash -- "A Political and Legal Soap Opera" -- "Hurricane Mimi" -- "President Habre Has Been Kidnapped" -- A Trial in Chad -- The Trial of Hissene Habre -- Two Heart Attacks -- Round One to Habre -- "You Will Be Tried Whether You Like It or Not" -- "From the Victims I Ask for Forgiveness" -- Khadidja Tells Her Secret -- The Man Who Runs Faster Than Death -- Souleymane Testifies -- The Verdict Is Announced -- Epilogue.
Summary:
"When a Western-backed leader abuses their power and turns against their own people, bringing them to account for their crimes is an uphill battle. In this fastpaced expose, Reed Brody, a former investigator with Human Rights Watch, describes how he and his international team of investigators and torture survivors did just that. Brody tells how he and his team unearthed evidence and witnesses, petitioned courts and skeptical governments, and lobbied public opinion to bring Hissene Habre, the former dictator of Chad to justice. Habre, whose violent ascent to power was engineered by the U.S. government, had for eight years jailed, tortured and murdered tens of thousands of people in a desperately poor country he held captive to his cruel and uncompromising ambition. This story sounds the alarm about the tragic consequences of such a policy. Furthermore, the Habre case shows there is nothing inevitable about brutal tyrants going unpunished for their crimes, even when they have previously had powerful allies in the United States and Europe. With enough persistence, cunning, and imagination, survivors and their supporters can sometimes bring even the worst criminals to justice"-- Provided by publisher.
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