Idriss_Déby
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An haifi idriss Déby a ranar 18 ga watan Yunin, shekara ta 1952, a ƙauyen Berdoba, kusan kilomita 190 daga Fada a arewacin Chadi. Mahaifinsa ya kasance makiyayi ne mara kyau, wanda ke cikin dangin Bidayat na garin Zaghawa. Bayan ya halarci Makarantar Alkur'ani a Tiné, Déby ya yi karatu a çcole Française da ke Fada da kuma makarantar Franco-Arab (Lycée Franco-Arabe) da ke Abéché. Ya kuma halarci Lycée Jacques Moudeina a Bongor kuma yanada digiri na farko a fannin kimiyya. Bayan ya gama makaranta, sai ya shiga makarantar Jami'ai a N'Djamena. Daga nan ne kuma aka tura shi Faransa don samun horo, inda ya koma Chadi a shekara ta 1976 tare da takardar shedar tukin jirgin sama ta kwararru. Ya kasance mai biyayya ga sojoji da Shugaba Félix Malloum har ma bayan da babbar hukumar Chadi ta ruguje a shekara ta 1979. Ya dawo daga Faransa a watan Fabrairun shekara ta 1979 kuma ya tarar da Chadi ta zama filin daga ga ƙungiyoyi masu ɗimbin makamai. Déby ya ɗaure arzikinsa ga na Hissène Habré, ɗayan manyan shugabannin yaƙi na Chadi. Shekara guda bayan Habré ya zama shugaban ƙasa a shekara ta 1982, Déby ya zama babban kwamandan askarawan soja. Ya bambanta kansa a cikin shekara ta 1984 ta hanyar lalata sojojin Libya a gabashin Chadi. A cikin shekara ta 1985, Habré ya aike shi zuwa Paris don bin kwas a atcole de Guerre; bayan dawowarsa a shekara ta 1986, ya zama babban mai ba shugaban kasa shawara kan harkokin soja. A cikin shekara ta 1987, ya tunkari sojojin Libya a filin, tare da taimakon Faransa a cikin abin da ake kira "Toyota War", yana bin dabarun da ke haifar da asara mai yawa ga sojojin abokan gaba. A lokacin yakin, ya kuma jagoranci wani samame a sansanin Maaten al-Sarra da ke Kufrah, a yankin Libya. Rikici ya ɓarke a ranar 1 ga Afrilu 1989 tsakanin Habré da Déby game da ƙaruwar ƙarfin Mai tsaron Shugaban ƙasa. A cewar Human Rights Watch, an sami Habré da alhakin "kashe-kashen siyasa da yawa, azabtarwa ta yau da kullun, da dubban kame-kame ba bisa ka'ida ba", da kuma tsabtace kabilanci lokacin da aka fahimci cewa shugabannin kungiyar na iya yin barazana ga mulkinsa, gami da yawancin kabilun Zaghawa na Déby da suka goyi bayan gwamnati. Da yawan rashin hankali, Habré ya zargi Déby, ministan cikin gida Mahamat Itno, kuma babban kwamandan sojojin Chadi Hassan Djamous da shirya juyin mulki. Déby ya fara tserewa zuwa Darfur, sannan zuwa Libya, inda Gaddafi ya tarbe shi a Tripoli. An kama Itno da Djamous an kashe su. Tunda duka mutanen uku sun kasance 'yan kabilar Zaghawa, Habré ya fara kamfen ɗin yaƙi da ƙungiyar wanda ya ga an kame ɗaruruwan, azabtarwa da kuma ɗaure su. Da yawa sun mutu a tsare ko an kashe su ta wani lokaci. A shekara ta 2016, wata kotun kasa da kasa da aka kirkiro ta musamman a Senegal ta samu Habré da aikata laifukan yaki. Déby ya baiwa Libyawa cikakken bayani game da ayyukan CIA a Chadi. Gaddafi ya ba Déby taimakon soja don karbe iko a Chadi domin musayar fursunonin yakin Libya. Déby ya tsere zuwa Sudan a shekara ta 1989 kuma ya kafa kungiyar 'yan tawaye ta Patriotic Salvation Movement,  wanda Libya da Sudan suka goyi bayansa,  wanda ya fara aiki da Habré, kuma a ranar 2 ga watan Disambar shekara ta 1990 sojojin Déby suka yi tattaki ba tare da hamayya ba zuwa N' Djaména a cikin juyin mulkin da ya yi nasara, ya kori Habré.