New Film Documents Political Victims' Pursuit of Trial for Chad's Ex-Dictator
                   
voanews.com: A group of local women visit the field where the dead were buried by other prisoners. voanews.com
voanews.com     01-Jul-2008          

Dictator Hunter report / Broadband - Download (WM) Dictator Hunter report / Broadband - Watch (WM) This year's Human Rights Watch International Film Festival includes a documentary focusing on the group's lead attorney and a former political prisoner from Chad. They worked together, and without government support, to bring Chad's former dictator to trial. It's a suspenseful tale spanning several years and three continents. Carolyn Weaver reports. The Dictator Hunter, by Dutch filmmaker Klaartje Quirijns, begins with Human Rights Watch lawyer Reed Brody on a trip to Chad. That's the Central African nation where Hissene Habre took power in 1982 with U.S. backing. Habre founded a secret police force and began imprisoning and murdering thousands according to human rights organizations and the U.S. State Department. "If you kill... [read full story]                    


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