To Catch a Dictator : : The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré / / Reed Brody.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Brody, Reed,
• MitwirkendeR: Moudeïna, Jacqueline,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PROLOGUE -- PART I. HISSÈNE HABRÉ, AN “AFRICAN PINOCHET” -- 1 SOULEYMANE GUENGUENG -- 2 HISSÈNE HABRÉ -- 3 THE PINOCHET PRECEDENT -- 4 A PRESIDENT CAN BE PROSECUTED -- PART II. BUILDING THE CASE -- 5 POLITICS ENTERS THE PICTURE -- 6 THE TERROR FILES -- 7 A GRENADE ATTACK -- 8 JUSTICE COMES TO CHAD -- 9 A BANANA REPUBLIC? -- 10 REED BRODY’S SCHEDULE -- 11 HABRÉ IS INDICTED, AGAIN -- 12 THE CALIPH -- 13 A SENEGALESE MERCHANT -- 14 “REED BLOODY, A HATEFUL JEW” -- 15 HABRÉMANIA -- 16 HABRÉCADABRA -- 17 THE TRADE UNION OF HEADS OF STATE -- 18 “ON BEHALF OF AFRICA” -- PART III. BUILDING A COURT -- 19 MR. X -- 20 LA FRANCE -- 21 PANIC IN CHAD -- 22 AN “INSIDER” WITNESS -- 23 “HOPE IS THE LAST THING TO VANISH” -- 24 A BIZARRE DECISION -- 25 BACKLASH -- 26 “A POLITICAL AND LEGAL SOAP OPERA” -- 27 “HURRICANE MIMI” -- 28 “PRESIDENT HABRÉ HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED” -- 29 A TRIAL IN CHAD -- PART IV. THE TRIAL OF HISSÈNE HABRÉ -- 30 TWO HEART ATTACKS -- 31 ROUND ONE TO HABRÉ -- 32 “YOU WILL BE TRIED WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT” -- 33 “FROM THE VICTIMS I ASK FOR FORGIVENESS” -- 34 KHADIDJA TELLS HER SECRET -- 35 THE MAN WHO RUNS FASTER THAN DEATH -- 36 SOULEYMANE TESTIFIES -- 37 THE VERDICT IS ANNOUNCED -- EPILOGUE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX