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17 Jul, 2015

Charged with war crimes

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Habre is charged with numerous war crimes that resulted in the deaths of 40,000 people. This is the first time he is before a court for crimes that span a period of twenty years. Victim:

I want to look him in the face and ask him why I was kept rotting in jail for three years, why my friends were tortured and killed.