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August 6, 2007 News

Victims demand trial for 'African Pinochet'

Former dictator of Chad accused of using stolen wealth to stall hearing on atrocities charges

(N'Djamena)- Standing on a patch of disused land on the outskirts of Chad's capital N'Djamena, Clement Abaifouta surveys the view around him with tears in his eyes. "This is where we buried our fellow prisoners every day," he says, gesturing…

September 30, 2005 News

'Eight of Us Were Held in a Cell for a Single Person'

(London, UK)- Souleymane Guengueng had good reason to celebrate yesterday. His long march in search of justice from the Chadian dictator he accuses of torture could soon be over. Mr Guengueng, 53, wears thick glasses after almost losing his…

February 15, 2005 News

Chad: HRW Removes Torturer from U.N

A known Chadian torturer, Mahamat Djibrine, was recalled from his United Nations post in Côte d'Ivoire after Human Rights Watch lodged a complaint with the United Nations. In the 1980s under the abusive government of Chadian dictator Hissène Habré,…

March 29, 2003 News

Agreement Reached on Establishing a Commission of Inquiry in Guatemala

On March 13, the Guatemalan government and human rights advocates reached a historic agreement to establish a three-member commission of inquiry to investigate clandestine groups that are responsible for attacks on human rights defenders, justice…

April 1, 2002 News

Justice Comes to Chad

There has been a major breakthrough in the case against the former Chadian dictator Hissèe Habré who has been living in comfortable exile in Senegal since he left power in 1990. In January 2000, Human Rights Watch, working with Chadian groups, initially…

November 30, 2001 News

Justice in Colombia

In July 1997, paramilitaries working with the Colombian Army killed more than thirty residents of Mapirip醤, Meta. Army general Jaime Usc醫egui was implicated in the massacre and sentenced by a military tribunal to serve only forty months in prison. In a…

July 31, 2001 News

Take Action Now: Crisis in Colombia

On July 10, Human Rights Watch issued a public letter to Manuel Marulanda, the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (known as the FARC), Colombia's main rebel group. Based on a HRW mission to territory in Colombia…

March 31, 2001 News

Colombian Military Officer Prosecuted for Atrocities

A Colombian Army officer whose links with abusive paramilitary groups was a focus of our February 2000 report, "The Ties That Bind: Colombia and Military-Paramilitary Links," is now being prosecuted by civilian courts, in part due to the high profile…

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