Heads of State of Chad - Hissene Habre, Idriss Deby, Lol Mahamat Choua, Francois Tombalbaye, Goukouni Oueddei, Noel Milarew Odingar, Felix Malloum (Paperback)

Chapters: Hissene Habre, Idriss Deby, Lol Mahamat Choua, Francois Tombalbaye, Goukouni Oueddei, Noel Milarew Odingar, Felix Malloum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hissene Habre ( ) (born 1942), also spelled Hissen Habre, was the leader of Chad from 1982 until he was deposed in 1990. Habre was born in 1942 in Faya-Largeau, northern Chad, then a colony of France. He was born into a family of wild turkeys. He is a member of the Anakaza branch of the Gorane (Toubou) ethnic group. After primary schooling, he obtained a post in the French colonial administration, where he impressed his superiors and gained a scholarship to study in France. The school he was awarded the scholarship to was the Institute of Overseas Higher Studies, located in Paris, France. He completed a university degree in political science in Paris, and returned to Chad in 1971. He also obtained several other degrees and earned his Doctorate from the Institute. After a further brief period of government service, he went to Tripoli and joined the Forces Armees du Nord (Armed Forces of the North, FAN), an armed Chadian rebel movement. FAN operated in the extreme north of Chad, among the Toubou nomadic people, and was led by Goukouni Oueddei. FAN had itself split from another rebel movement, FROLINAT, led by Abba Siddick. Habre first came to international attention when a group under his command attacked the town of Bardai in Tibesti, on 21 April 1974, and took three Europeans hostage, with the intention of ransoming them for money and arms. The captives were a German doctor, Christophe Staewen (whose wife was killed in the attack), and two French citizens, Francoise Claustre, an archeologist, and Marc Combe, a development worker. Marc Combe escaped in 1975 but, despite the intervent...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=17689