LC control no. | n 85109733 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Habré, Hissein |
Variant(s) | Habré, Hissène Ḥabrī, Ḥusayn حبري, حسين |
Associated country | Chad |
Birth date | 1942-09-13 |
Death date | 2021-08-24 |
Place of birth | Faya (Chad) |
Place of death | Dakar (Senegal) |
Field of activity | Chad--Politics and government |
Affiliation | Front de libération nationale du Tchad |
Profession or occupation | Presidents Dictators |
Special note | Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
Found in | His Pensées et citations, c1984: t.p. (Hissein Habré) p. 13 (président de la République [Chad]; b. about 1942) Les moments difficiles, c1998: t.p. (Hissène Habré) p. 158 (b. around 1942) Wikipedia, Oct. 28, 2015 (Hissène Habré; Chadian Arabic: حسين حبري ; b. 13 Sep. 1942 in Faya-Largeau, northern Chad; completed university degree in political science in Paris, returned to Chad in 1971; later earned his doctorate from the Institute of Overseas Higher Studies, Paris; served briefly as a deputy prefect; after a visit to Tripoli, joined the National Liberation Front of Chad (FROLINAT); in 1976 he split off and founded Armed Forces of the North/Forces Armées du Nord (FAN); given post of prime minister, 1978-1979; deposed the elected president, Goukouni Oueddei, in a coup June 7, 1982; ruled as dictator until he was deposed in 1990 by Idriss Déby; fled to Senegal; under house arrest 2005-2013, when he was arrested; accused of war crimes and torture in the deaths of thousands; his trial began in 2015) Washington post WWW site, viewed August 27, 2021 (in obituary dated August 24, 2021: Hissène Habré, the former dictator of Chad whose reign of torture and political killings in the 1980s led to his conviction in 2016 on crimes against humanity, died Aug. 24 in Dakar, Senegal. He was 79. Mr. Habré was born in 1942 in Faya-Largeau, in the northern part of Chad) |
Associated language | fre |