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7. Tenacity, Perseverance, and Imagination in the ‘Private International Prosecution’ of Hissène Habré

Author

Reed Brody

Subjects
Aesthetics, Political science, Tenacity (mineralogy)
Abstract

This chapter focuses on Human Rights Watch’s strategy, challenges, the role played by civil society, and the strokes of fate that accompanied the twenty-year effort to convict Hissène Habré. The Habré trial was the fruit of what has been called ‘one of the world's most patient and tenacious campaigns for justice’. This campaign was waged over two decades by Habré's victims and their supporters, who improbably succeeded in creating the political conditions to bring a former African president to justice in Africa, with the support of the African Union. The victims' coalition ‘essentially served the case to the EAC on a silver platter’, determining the contours of the prosecution and dictating the nature of the trial itself, thereby contributing to its emancipatory impact. Ultimately, the Habré case shows how a ‘private international prosecution’ can allow victims to achieve criminal justice on their own terms.

Published
2020
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8. To Catch a Dictator : The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré

Author

Reed Brody and Reed Brody

Subjects
Human rights--Chad, Detention of persons--Chad, Trials (Crimes against humanity)--Senegal, Trials (Torture)--Senegal, Torture--Chad, Crimes against humanity--Chad
Abstract

What does it take to make a dictator answer for his crimes? Hissène Habré, the former despot of Chad, had terrorized, tortured, and killed on a horrific scale over eight bloody years in power—all while enjoying full American and Western support. After Habré's overthrow, his victims and their supporters were determined to see him held responsible for his atrocities. Their quest for justice would be long, tense, and unnerving, but they would not back down.To Catch a Dictator is a dramatic insider's account of the hunt for Habré and his momentous trial. The human rights lawyer Reed Brody recounts how he and an international team of investigators, legal experts, and victims worked across three continents to unearth evidence and witnesses, petition courts and skeptical governments, and rally public opinion. They faced many obstacles and constant threats. One of Brody's Chadian colleagues was gravely injured in a bomb attack, and another had to seek asylum in the United States. Habré fought back bitterly, drawing on secret bank accounts and extensive political connections to preserve his life of luxurious exile. Yet Brody and his allies ultimately triumphed: Habré became the first former head of state to be convicted of crimes against humanity in the courts of another country. This fast-paced, suspenseful book shows that there is nothing inevitable about the impunity that too often protects the powerful and that even the worst tyrants can be brought to justice.The book also features a foreword by Jacqueline Moudeïna, the lead lawyer for Hissène Habré's victims, who received the Right Livelihood Award (the “alternative Nobel Peace Prize”) in 2011.

Published
2022

11. Le procès de Hissène Habré : un tournant pour la justice internationale

Author

Reed Brody

Abstract

Cet article presente le jugement historique de l'ancien dictateur du Tchad, Hissene Habre, par les Chambres africaines extraordinaires au sein des tribunaux senegalais, et la longue campagne pour la justice qui l'a precede. L'article etablit que le role central des victimes a cree une dynamique politique irresistible qui a force la tenue du proces, permettant de mettre en lumiere la lutte des victimes et de rendre justice pour un large eventail de crimes.

Published
2020
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12. Bringing a Dictator to Justice.

Author

Brody, Reed

Subjects
*CRUELTY, *PRE-trial procedure, *NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations, *HUMAN rights, *UNIVERSAL jurisdiction, *ACTIONS & defenses (Law)
Abstract

In May 2015, the former Chadian dictator Hisse'ne Habre¤ is scheduled to face trial for brutality against his own people before a special chamber in the Senegalese courts established in 2013. Habre¤'s trial will mark the first time in history that the courts of one country try the former leader of another country for human rights crimes. The advent of the trial, 25 years after Habre¤'s fall, is entirely due to the perseverance of Habre¤'s victims and their non-governmental organization (NGO) allies. The launch of proceedings before the Extraordinary African Chambers has also spurred justice efforts back in Chad, where former agents of Habre¤'s political police now stand trial for torture and murder and the president has finally promised compensation to Habre¤'s victims. The Habre¤ case shows that it is possible for a victim/ NGO coalition, with tenacity and imagination, to create the political conditions for a successful universal jurisdiction prosecution, even against a former head of state. It also highlights many of the practical problems of litigating crimes far away from the territorial state without the complete cooperation of that state's government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2015
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13. XXI Century. Part I, The dawn

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Thecatsdream.com (Firm), production company., Bullfrog Films, distributor., Zamparini, Gabriele 1968- film director, film producer, screenwriter, director of photography., Meccoli, Lorenzo 1968- film producer, screenwriter, director of photography, editor of moving image work., Palast, Greg, on-screen participant., Goodman, Amy, 1957- on-screen participant., Schechter, Danny, on-screen participant., Coen, Rachel, on-screen participant., Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010, on-screen participant., Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012, on-screen participant., Brody, Reed, 1953- on-screen participant., and Mayer, Arno J., on-screen participant.

Published
2019

14. XXI Century. Part VII, Pax Americana

Author

Thecatsdream.com (Firm), production company., Bullfrog Films, distributor., Zamparini, Gabriele 1968- film director, film producer, screenwriter, director of photography., Meccoli, Lorenzo 1968- film producer, screenwriter, director of photography, editor of moving image work., De Grazia, Victoria, on-screen participant., Palast, Greg, on-screen participant., Normand, Roger, 1964- on-screen participant., Solomon, Norman, 1933- on-screen participant., Goering, Curt, on-screen participant., Chomsky, Noam, on-screen participant., Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012, on-screen participant., Brody, Reed, 1953- on-screen participant., Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010, on-screen participant., Mayer, Arno J., on-screen participant., Mitchell, Timothy, on-screen participant., Megally, Hanny, on-screen participant., and Aloni, Udi, on-screen participant.

Published
2019

15. XXI Century. Part VI, Blood and oil

Author

Thecatsdream.com (Firm), production company., Bullfrog Films, distributor., Zamparini, Gabriele 1968- film director, film producer, screenwriter, director of photography., Meccoli, Lorenzo 1968- film producer, screenwriter, director of photography, editor of moving image work., De Grazia, Victoria, on-screen participant., Palast, Greg, on-screen participant., Sidel, Victor W., on-screen participant., Normand, Roger, 1964- on-screen participant., Solomon, Norman, 1933- on-screen participant., Alvarez, Jose, on-screen participant., Goering, Curt, on-screen participant., Cline, David, on-screen participant., Tutu, Desmond, on-screen participant., Chomsky, Noam, on-screen participant., White, Edmund, 1940- on-screen participant., Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012, on-screen participant., Brody, Reed, 1953- on-screen participant., Ritter, Scott, on-screen participant., Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010, on-screen participant., and Mayer, Arno J., on-screen participant.

Published
2019

16. XXI Century. Part II, ... And the pursuit of happiness

Author

Thecatsdream.com (Firm), production company., Bullfrog Films, distributor., Zamparini, Gabriele 1968- film director, film producer, screenwriter, director of photography., Meccoli, Lorenzo 1968- film producer, screenwriter, director of photography, editor of moving image work., Chomsky, Noam, on-screen participant., Ratner, Michael, 1943-2016, on-screen participant., Tarazi, Monica, on-screen participant., Cagan, Lesie, on-screen participant., Goodman, Amy, 1957- on-screen participant., Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010, on-screen participant., Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012, on-screen participant., Brody, Reed, 1953- on-screen participant., Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014, on-screen participant., White, Edmund, 1940- on-screen participant., Pollitt, Katha, on-screen participant., Foley, Michael, 1948- on-screen participant., and Alvarez, Jose, on-screen participant.

Published
2019

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