Former President of Chad Hissène Habré to be buried in Senegal
Former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré, escorted by soldiers after being heard by a judge, July 2, 2013 in Dakar.
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Two days after his death from Covid-19 at the age of 79, former Chadian President Hissène Habré will be buried this Thursday August 26 in Senegal.
A long-awaited decision when the question of the repatriation of his body to Chad arose.
The former head of state had lived in Senegal for 31 years, after being overthrown by Idriss Déby.
It was here that he was sentenced to life in 2016 for crimes against humanity during his reign from 1982 to 1990.
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With our correspondent in Dakar,
Théa Ollivier
The lifting of the body of Hissène Habré is scheduled for early afternoon Thursday, August 26 at the Omar mosque in Dakar.
Then the burial will take place in the Muslim cemetery of Yoff in the Senegalese capital.
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A decision that had remained in abeyance until yesterday at the very end of the day, when the Senegalese media evoked a disagreement between the two wives of Hissène Habré.
Because on the evening of her death, Fatimé Raymonne Habré, one of his wives, had announced that she wanted her husband to rest "
in Senegalese lands
" as long as he was not rehabilitated in Chad.
It also indicated that it was not asking the Chadian government anything, which had announced a little earlier that it would not oppose the repatriation of the body of the deceased but that no official homage would be paid to him "
because of his convictions. and out of respect for its victims
”.
Namely, it is also in this cemetery of Yoff that the former Cameroonian president Ahmadou Ahidjo was buried in 1989. He had gone into exile in Senegal after being sentenced to death in absentia in his country.
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