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<p>Deby was a graduate of Moammar Gaddafi&#8217;s World Revolutionary Center, also dubbed as the &#8220;Havard of tyrants&#8221;, and was close to the late Libyan leader.</p><div class="pk87CSDL" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>In 1990 Deby was himself a rebel leader, formerly an army chief, who ousted the country&#8217;s longtime dictator Hissene Habre.</p>
<p>Habre&#8217;s allies, France and the US, quickly changed sides after having previously backed the ruthless dictator accused of killing thousands and engaging in systemic human rights abuses.</p>
<p>Deby entered Chad&#8217;s capital N&#8217;Djamena triumphantly, and Habre was exiled to Senegal, where he would later be found guilty of human right abuses.</p><div class="eEusVK1L" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>After a transitional period, in 1996, Deby led the country towards its first multi-party election and became the country&#8217;s first elected president. He also reached out to the opposition bringing them onboard.</p>
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<p>Deby&#8217;s reelection in 2001 faced opposition from some parties accusing the president of fraud. However, undeterred by opposition voices in 2005, he changed the constitution through a referendum removing term limits.</p>
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<p>Army desertions and one-man rule</p>
<p>When in 2005, rank and file soldiers deserted the army, the seeds of a long rebellion were laid that would last half a decade.</p>
<p>Former allies of Deby felt let down that the president changed the constitution, increasing his term limits and increasingly consolidating rule in the hands of one man.</p>
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<p>When in 2008 the rebels attacked N&#8217;Djamena, they reached the gates of the presidential palace before the country&#8217;s former colonial power, France, stepped in, helping Deby stay in power.</p>
<p>Derby, however, saw an opportunity to become useful when in 2013, he joined France in deploying troops to neighbouring Mali, then in the midst of a battle with jihadi forces.</p>
<p>More than 2,000 troops were deployed to fight alongside French troops, and in 2014, the French army established the regional headquarters.</p>
<p>During this period, Derby became a proactive force in regional politics, launching raids into neighbouring Nigeria against Boko Haram, sent troops to Mauritania and continued the country&#8217;s military involvement in Mali.</p>
<p>Deby was a man that knew how to stay in power in a region riven by foreign influence, regional tribal rivalries and low-level insurgencies.</p>
<p>In the end, he left behind a country as he took it over, one rife with internal conflict, beholden to regional and international interests.</p>
<p>The rebel group behind Deby&#8217;s killing, FACT, had a non-hostility agreement with another Gadaffi era holdover, the self-styled General Khalifa Haftar in Libya, a country itself in the middle of a tussle for power.</p>
<p>In Libya, France has been an ally of Haftar, even as he gave protection to a group inimical to its partner in Chad. Now, Deby&#8217;s son, a military officer, has been named interim president by the military. The country&#8217;s borders have been shut, Chad continues its 30-year transition.</p>
<p>Rest in peace to one of the heroes of Africa, Idriss Derby.</p>
<p>SOURCE: TRT WORLD.</p>
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