![]() ![]() ![]() However, for wider African justice, the EAC’s status as an ad hoc hybrid court established inside the existing Senegalese justice system is significant. What matters most was the EAC’s success in reaching a guilty verdict on charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture on a remarkably tight timeframe and on a budget of just over 8 million euros. ![]() The legal vagaries and judicial details of the Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC), which sentenced Hissène Habré to life imprisonment in 2015, was not at the top of the list of concerns of many of the former Chadian president’s victims. Celeste Hicks is the author of ‘The Trial of Hissene Habre – How the people of Chad Brought a Tyrant to Justice’, (forthcoming, Zed Books 2018) ![]()
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