Dakar, (AFP/APP):Former Chadian president Hissene Habre was buried Thursday in Senegal’s capital Dakar, AFP journalists saw, where he had been serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity.
The former leader was jailed in Dakar in 2016 after an African Union-backed trial over abuses committed during years of iron-fisted rule in Chad.
On Tuesday, he succumbed aged 79 to Covid-19 in a private clinic in West African city.
About two hundred relatives, supporters and Senegalese dignitaries prayed before his body before an uncompleted Dakar mosque on Thursday as part of a simple ceremony.
There were no women present, according to tradition. Habre’s body, which was shrouded in cloth, was then buried at a nearby cemetery.
The ex-dictator’s son Hamid Hissene Habre described his father as “loving” and called his conviction an “injustice”.
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