According to a provisional assessment, around fifty people were killed during the rallies that took place, Thursday, October 20, in several cities in the country at the call of the opposition.
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The floods that affected the most populous provinces in Chad and threatened to engulf a little more certain areas of N’Djamena, will have no effect to drown the anger movement.
Thursday, October 20, despite the prohibition to demonstrate decreed the day before by the government, the districts reputed to be slingers of the capital – Walia, Chagoua, Abena, Moursal – responded to the call for mobilization launched by Wakit Tama – a coalition of civil society organizations – and by certain political parties.
Several provincial cities such as Moundou, Abéché, Bongor or Koumra have also joined protest. From the morning, steps started, barricades made of branches, concrete pieces and fiery tires were erected to denounce the maintenance as president of Mahamat Déby for an additional twenty-four months, formalized on October 10. The day of the mobilization was symbolic: October 20 corresponded to the date on which the son and successor of Idriss Déby, killed in combat in April 2021, should have returned the power if he had held his initial commitment of a transition of eighteen months.
As you should expect, police and army repressed with tear gas but also with real bullets. More than usual. If no final and independent account of the number of victims was available Thursday, Saleh Kebzabo, the opponent who became eight days earlier Prime Minister of a “government of national unity”, said at a press conference organized At the end of the afternoon, a record of a “fifty dead” and “more than 300 injured” throughout the territory. 2> a journalist succumbs to his injuries
Among the dead would be “between ten and fifteen elements of the police”, according to Aziz Mahamat Saleh, the Minister of Communication. How were they killed? “Three were by demonstrators with handguns and white weapons while they were in faction before the governorate. Police were also directly attacked in police stations. It was not a demonstration but An insurrection to take power, “he said, joined by the world. Twenty-four hours earlier, as if to prepare the spirits for this assessment and these accusations, Aziz Mahamat Saleh said by press release that “more than 1,500 young people were trained and trained in order to make targeted breakdowns against certain public buildings and personalities from the Republic “.
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