A man prays over a coffin containing the body of Chad’s former President Hissen Habre, during his funeral ceremony in the parking lot of the Omari Mosque in Dakar, Senegal, August 26, 2021. REUTERS/Cooper Inveen
DAKAR (Reuters) - Former Chad President Hissene Habre, who died this week while serving a life sentence for war crimes, was buried on Thursday in Senegal after a muted funeral in the car park of a half-built mosque littered with construction equipment.
Habre ruled Chad https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/chads-former-president-habre-convicted-war-crimes-dies-senegal-2021-08-24 from 1982 to 1990, during which his political police tortured, killed and raped tens of thousands of suspected enemies, often on Habre's orders.
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