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CHAD: Arrests Follow Alleged Plot

CHAD: Arrests Follow Alleged Plot The opposition claims a witch hunt after deaths at an army barracks. President Idriss Deby Itno on May 8th denied he was waging a “witch hunt” against the opposition, after a string of arrests in connection with a foiled coup plot. At least three people were killed, and several others arrested in what government described as a foiled coup attempt by “a small group of ill‐intentioned individuals.” Security services had for months been monitoring “a group of individuals who were preparing a plot against the state's institutions” and swooped on one of their meetings in the capital on May 1st, Foreign Minister Moussa Faki said. Some of them “responded by firing on the security forces. One officer was shot dead and in response two members of the group were gunned down. The others were arrested,” Faki said. A police source told AFP earlier that “several” people had been killed and around 15 others wounded in a shootout between security forces and the alleged conspirators on the outskirts of N'Djamena. Speaking before the Foreign ministry update, some police sources spoke of six deaths, while others claimed eight were killed in the incident, “three of whom were security forces”. Chad's http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Wiley
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© John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2013
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10.1111/j.1467-825X.2013.05115.x
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The opposition claims a witch hunt after deaths at an army barracks. President Idriss Deby Itno on May 8th denied he was waging a “witch hunt” against the opposition, after a string of arrests in connection with a foiled coup plot. At least three people were killed, and several others arrested in what government described as a foiled coup attempt by “a small group of ill‐intentioned individuals.” Security services had for months been monitoring “a group of individuals who were preparing a plot against the state's institutions” and swooped on one of their meetings in the capital on May 1st, Foreign Minister Moussa Faki said. Some of them “responded by firing on the security forces. One officer was shot dead and in response two members of the group were gunned down. The others were arrested,” Faki said. A police source told AFP earlier that “several” people had been killed and around 15 others wounded in a shootout between security forces and the alleged conspirators on the outskirts of N'Djamena. Speaking before the Foreign ministry update, some police sources spoke of six deaths, while others claimed eight were killed in the incident, “three of whom were security forces”. Chad's

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Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series – Wiley

Published: Jun 1, 2013

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