Abstract
On May 30th 2016, former Chadian President Hissein Habré was sentenced to life by an Extraordinary African Chamber established by an agreement between Senegal and the African Union. The judgment, confirmed in appeal in Dakar on April 27th 2017, was accompanied by reparations to the benefit of the regime’s victims. The judges of the African Chambers decided precisely upon a state policy expressing a ‘ joint criminal enterprise’ of terror against opponents of the regime, described as a crime against humanity. The former Chadian dictator, however, responded alone to these acts since his associates were not brought before the judges. His outside support, particularly French, was only mentioned to qualify certain aspects of the Chadian and international conflicts, to punish crimes committed against prisoners of war protected by the IIIrd Geneva Convention of 1949.
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