Welcome to Bring Hissene Habre to Justice.
This is a weblog dedicated to all those who fight to bring the ex-Chadian dictator to justice for all his crimes against the Chadian people during his reign from 1982 to 1990 when he was ousted by his formed commander in chief of the Army, General Idriss Deby. Prosecuting Hissene Habre is also synonym of prosecuting General Idriss Deby because of prominent role and implications in the genocides of the Sara (1984), the Hadjeray…
Justice and Truth always prevail against evil. The path maybe long and tortuous but sooner or later, we’ll bring those who committed evil against our people to justice. No one must get away with genocide and crimes against humanity. Under Hissene Habre, thousands of innocent lives were silenced. Thousands were arrested, tortured in the prisons of the notorious Directorate of Documentation and Security (DDS), and cold bloodily executed. Under Habre, any sign of opposition was a rebellion and was brutality stopped. Villages were looted and burned down, harvests destroyed to starved the populations, women were raped, children murdered. People were hunted down like gazelles and viciously assassinated. Thousands of Chadians were arrested and disappeared forever under the rule of Habre. We’ll never know where their bodies were dumped after they got murdered. We’ll never know. We’ll ever be a closure? Not for some of us until the monster is brought to justice.
Yes, under Hissene Habre, thousands were put on the routes of exile to save their lives. The extermination of the Sara and the other ethnic groups was a high priority in the Habre regime. Intellectual, Engineers, Students, Politicians, farmer…everybody was a target. Hissene Habre wiped out hundreds of Southern brains just because he saw them as threat to his regime. In 1984, operation ” Black September” was launched and the entire South was under siege. It’s been a very dark period of our history and we’ll never forget. It’s no different than what Hitler did to the Jews. It’s no different than what Pol Pot did to the Cambodians. It’s no different than what Milosevic perpetrated against the Bosnians, the Croats and the Kosovars. It is no different than what happened in Rwanda in 1994. It was clearly a well planned, well designed, well organized and well coordinated genocide against the civil populations of the South of Chad. It was the genocide the world didn’t care about or it was the genocide the world decided to not know about. Why? We were not that important. There were better priorities maybe. As in the Rwandan genocide, the world sat back, closed its eyes and let thousands of lives got silenced forever. I have lost so many people during Black September 1984. My younger brother, aged 9, was shot on September 17, 1984 in the farm of Deli, 30km from Moundou, in the South of Chad. I was 11 but I will NEVER forget what happened. It was the turning point of my life. That dark day has changed my life forever. My childhood got taken away from me that same day and I started behaving like a man from that day on. I have never been the same after Black September 1984. I saw so many love ones, friends, and strangers, killed. I saw my younger brother bleed and die of his wounds. I will never forget all the images. More than 20 years after, nothing has gone away. When I think of that period, it looks like it was tomorrow because the images are still vivid in my mind. I can remember the weather that very morning. I can remember the blue sky that turned red later. I can remember the smell, the sounds of AK 47 and heavy weapons, I can remember the screams of women, children. I can remember the agonizing wounded and their painful and heartbreaking cry for help. I can still remember the band of vultures flying above the farm after the massacre. And I can also remember the two men who got shot under my father’s bed. The impacts of the bullets were still visible in the house we were on the day of the massacre. And I can remember my younger brother, James, lying down, in an ocean of blood. He was dead.
