Saleh Younous
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Saleh Younous (January 1, 1949 in Faya-Largeau, French Chad), is a war criminal he was the first director of the Directorate of Documentation and Security (DDS), which served from April 1983 to May 30, 1987. Under the repressive regime of Hissène Habré, also sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes of against humanity and torture in Senegalese jurisdictions.
Furthermore, Younous was named by several victims as the material author of acts of torture.
In 1990, Habré was removed from power and exiled to Senegal. That same year, President Idriss Déby created a national commission of inquiry, the report of which was published in May 1992, after 17 months of work.
In 2000, the victims filed a complaint in the Chadian courts, among the defendants was Saleh Younous, Chad only tried him when things changed in 2014, due to a parallel procedure before the Extraordinary Chambers of Africa within Senegalese jurisdictions.
N'Djaména won a legal battle against the Extraordinary African Chambers.
Younous "claimed" that President Hissène Habré "never attended the interrogations", that some victims contradicted each other and never went to the DDS facilities. I never stopped or gave the order to kill. I have defended my country against the Libyan Invasion.
Along with six other security officers under the command of Hissène Habré, Saleh Younous was sentenced in 2015 to life imprisonment for torture and murder, Condemnation serving in djamena.