Chad: CMT asks organizers of demonstrations to "reframe their activists"
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Chadian police officers patrol Ndjamena during a demonstration on April 27, 2021. AFP - ISSOUF SANOGO
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The CMT spoke for the first time on the demonstrations against the establishment of a transitional military council headed by Mahamat Idriss Déby, one of the sons of the Chadian president killed at the front on April 19, which shook the capital and some provincial towns on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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With our correspondent in Ndjamena
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Madjiasra Nako
According to the spokesperson for the Transitional Military Council, General Azem Bermandoa, it was slippages attributable to the demonstrators that caused the overflows.
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Different civil society organizations, the democratic opposition defied the ban on the demonstration ordered by the Ministry of Public Security and Immigration. This so-called peaceful demonstration paradoxically resulted in the voluntary destruction of 15 national police vehicles as well as two stations belonging to the company Total. In addition, there are intentional assaults and injuries to law enforcement officers on a mission. A retired policewoman was pulled from a public transport vehicle to be lynched.
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General Azem Bermandoa calls on the organizers of demonstrations to discipline their militants and also deplores 6 deaths.
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The Transitional Military Council asks the strike leaders to reframe their sympathizers and activists so that the march takes place in a purely peaceful setting.
Subject to confirmation of the exact number of victims by the Ndjamena district prosecutor's office, the CMT deplores six victims and at the same time offers condolences to the grieving families.
A judicial investigation is underway so that the various responsibilities are criminally located.
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To read also: Demonstrations in Chad: return to a day of protest and repression
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