DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal on Monday brushed aside a United Nations rights body's call for it to try or extradite former Chad President Hissene Habre and said the African Union should deal with the murder and torture charges against him. Habre ruled Chad from 1982 to 1990, when he was deposed, and is living in exile in Senegal. A Chadian official inquiry accused his government of 40,000 political killings and 200,000 cases of torture. He has denied all knowledge of abuse. The U.N. Committee Against Torture, whose verdicts have moral authority but no legal power, said on Friday Senegal was breaking international human rights law by not taking action against Habre. In a blunt response, Senegal's Justice Ministry said the country's appeals courts had already ruled that Senegalese justice was neither competent to try Habre nor to decide on a request last year by Belgium for his extradition.
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