Getting your player ready...
DAKAR, Senegal — In a puzzling twist to a 20-year saga, Senegal’s government informed Chad’s government Friday that former dictator Hissene Habre will next week be extradited on a special flight to face trial in his home country, where victims dub him “The Butcher.”
Habre sought refuge in Senegal in 1990 after being toppled in a coup and has lived freely despite an indictment by a Senegalese judge on charges of crimes against humanity.
Abderaman Djasnabaille, the Chadian minister of human rights, said by telephone that he was “astonished” by the news. He said that Chad was informed by a letter sent by Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade.
