Christoph Sperfeldt

Fatime Sakine, de l’Association des victimes du régime de l’ancien dictateur tchadien Hissène Habré, lors d’une conférence de presse le 3 septembre 2015, quatre jours avant la reprise du procès de Habré devant les Chambres africaines extraordinaires (CAE) à Dakar. Seyllou/AFP

October 5, 2021

Hissène Habré est mort mais ses victimes n’ont toujours pas reçu la moindre indemnisation

Christoph Sperfeldt, The University of Melbourne

L’ex-dictateur tchadien Hissène Habré (au pouvoir de 1982 à 1990) avait été condamné à verser d’importants dédommagements à ses milliers de victimes. Sa mort risque de les priver de leur dû.

Relatives of the victims at Hissene Habre’s 2015 trial in Dakar, Senegal Cemil Oksuz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

September 28, 2021

Victims of Habré’s rule haven’t been paid a cent of the compensation due to them

Christoph Sperfeldt, The University of Melbourne

For Hissene Habre’s victims, the clock is ticking –many elderly ones have already died and will never see the compensation they were owed.

The tribunal in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh is looking at whether some actions of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime meet the United Nations definition of genocide. Wikimedia Commons

November 15, 2018

Cambodians await crucial tribunal finding into 1970s brutal Khmer Rouge regime

Rachel Hughes, The University of Melbourne; Christoph Sperfeldt, The University of Melbourne, and Maria Elander, La Trobe University

A potentially historic ruling on genocide by a tribunal in Cambodia on Friday could unsettle understandings of the past among Cambodians - and create a precedent in international law.

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