The measure concerns 296 convicted persons – held or not – and was one of the “conditions” posed by rebel groups to participate in the national dialogue.
Le Monde with AFP
The military junta in power in Chad has decreed, Monday, November 29, a “general amnesty” for the rebels and opponents condemned, in particular for “opinion offices”, “terrorism” or “violation of the integrity of the State “, according to a report of the Council of Ministers sent to the France-Presse Agency (AFP).
This measure concerns 296 convicted persons – held or not – and responds to one of the requirements of the main rebel groups to come to the table of negotiations at the invitation of the President, Mahamat Idriss Debly Itno, the young general who has took the lead of the Transitional Military Council, in the aftermath of the death of his father, Idriss Déby, the head of state killed in April 2021 in fights against rebels.
“It appeared essential to make the rack of the vestiges inherited from the dark periods of our country by granting a general amnesty to those who, for one reason or another, had chosen the way of exile and / or the violence to express their political differences “, proclaims the law adopted in the Council of Ministers.
Mahamat Idriss Debly Itno had multiplied the opening signs
This measure concerns “39 persons convicted of infringement of the integrity of the State and offenses of opinion” and “257 members” of the armed groups, detained and judged after an offensive of the Union Resistance forces in 2019, which aimed to overthrow President Déby.
Chad, headed with an iron hand for more than thirty years by Idriss Déby at the end of a coup, is frequently shaken by rebel offensives from Libya and the neighboring Sudan, of which Some have led them to the doors of the capital, N’Djamena.
The main Chadian rebel groups were at the beginning of November “willing” to participate in the national dialogue “under certain conditions”, including the general amnesty. Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno had multiplied the opening signs to armed groups to engage them in a national dialogue supposed to reconcile Chadians before “free and transparent” elections promised within a period of eighteen months renewable once, when he has Taken power.