Chadian justice has delivered its verdict. On Wednesday, September 9, at the end of eleven days of hearings, the Criminal Chamber of the N’Djamena Court of Appeal handed down its ruling in the case involving former Central African rebel leader Abdoulaye Miskine. He received a sentence of fifteen years in prison, along with the payment of thirty million CFA francs to each of the victims’ families.
Three other defendants, tried alongside the main accused, were sentenced to ten years of imprisonment. The magistrates recognized mitigating circumstances in their favor.
Prosecuted for assassination, torture, sequestration, kidnapping, and rape, General Koumtamadji Martin, better known by the name Abdoulaye Miskine, formerly led the Central African presidential guard. He has been incarcerated since 2019 at the Klessoum remand prison.
The acts with which he is charged are said to have been committed between 2002 and 2003, in the border areas separating Chad from the Central African Republic, particularly around Tissi, Batangafo, and Kabo.
During the hearing of September 4, the public prosecutor’s office had sought a sentence of thirty years in prison for Abdoulaye Miskine, and ten years for his three co-defendants.
The latter were charged with creating or participating in an insurrectionary movement, as well as alleged acts of assassination, torture, sequestration, and rape, of which members of Chadian communities were said to have been victims.
For its part, the defense had contested the jurisdiction of the Chadian courts to hear this case. It had also invoked the statute of limitations on the acts prosecuted, arguing in favor of a simple acquittal of the accused.
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