/ 30 January 2000

CASE AGAINST HABRE UNDERWAY

A SENEGALESE judge began hearing harrowing testimony of torture and killings against exiled former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre in a landmark human rights case in Africa. Lawyers said four Chadians who say they were tortured by Habre’s henchmen during his 1982-90 rule filed into the chambers of Judge Boucounca Diallo of the Regional Court in Dakar, where Habre has been exiled since his overthrow nine years ago.