How does the analysis in this report contribute to the case against Hissène Habré?
This analysis draws heavily on official records of the DDS, which were recovered from the former DDS headquarters in 2001 by a team of investigators from Human Rights Watch. Our findings are based on thousands of administrative documents, created by the DDS to facilitate its prison operations. The documents also provided bureaucratic oversight of secret police operations by both the Director of the DDS and his immediate superior, President Hissène Habré. The HRDAG analysis complements both earlier qualitative findings by historians and area experts, as well as victim and survivor testimony collected by a number of local and international human rights groups. HRDAG’s quantitative analysis and graphical visualizations provide valuable insight into the human rights violations conducted by the DDS and the administrative practices by the DDS and Habré which led to these outcomes. This analysis provides an opportunity to place individual victim, survivor and eyewitness testimonies collected
