“It’s the first time that the African Union has established a tribunal. “This is the first time, actually, anywhere in the world that the courts of one country, Senegal, are trying the former leader of another, Chad, for human rights abuses,” Reed said at the time. Human Rights Watch attorney Reed Brody, who represented some of Habré’s victims since 1999, underscored during an interview conducted just as the trial was set to begin in 2015 the history and gravity of finally being able to bring the former dictator to justice. Habré’s security forces in Chad, which was led by members of his Gorane ethnic group, ruled over the country’s villages, towns and cities with a “ruthless” style of enforcing laws that included violations such as “speaking ill of Habré, listening to ‘enemy’ radio stations or ‘performing magical rites to aid the enemy,'” the Associated Press reported. Ninety-three witnesses testified at Habré’s trial. In that time, he fled to West Africa in Senegal, where he was ultimately convicted by the Extraordinary African Chambers in the capital city of Dakar. Habré’s trial took decades to happen following his regime getting overthrown 25 years earlier. magazine in 1999, according to the New York Times. “He didn’t die, so I shot him in the head,” Alpo told F.E.D.S. magazine more than two decades ago that after one of his associates didn’t manage to kill Porter, he went ahead and handled the rest. One of Alpo’s murders was Porter, who was killed because Martinez thought he was being cheated out of money being made by the three of them. “Paid In Full” told a dramatized version of Alpo’s true-life story and drew attention to his one-time New York City cohorts of Rich Porter and Azie Faison, who were both notorious drug lords in Harlem, too.
However, after getting pinched in 1991, he reportedly turned state’s evidence, dropping dime on his own organization including Wayne ‘Silk’ Perry in exchange for a 35-year sentence after facing life in the bing.Īlpo admitted to committing 14 murders while turning state’s evidence against Perry. In the late 80’s and early 90’s, Martinez moved his enterprise to the Washington, DC area. While already a legend in the streets, Alpo was immortalized on the big screen when rapper Cam’ron portrayed him in the movie, “Paid In Full,” which was released nearly nine years ago to the date of his death. It was not immediately clear who shot him, but being labeled a “snitch” in the streets is tantamount to a death sentence. Alpo was reportedly driving a 2017 Dodge Ram when he was shot five times. HipHopWired reported that the man who was born Alberto Geddis Martinez was shot early Sunday morning and died from his injuries shortly after he was taken to nearby Harlem Hospital. Exonerated! Falsely Accused Black Folks Freed From Prisonįamous Anti-Vaxxers Who Have Died From COVID-19
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