Chad: Wakit Tama calls for demonstrations despite the demands of the transitional authorities
Mobutu Avenue, in the center of Ndjamena.
May 2021. © David Baché
Text by: David Baché
6 mins
Citizen coordination Wakit Tama calls for marches across the country this Saturday, May 8, to protest against the transitional authorities established after the death of Idriss Déby, almost three weeks ago.
The Transitional Military Council, headed by General Mahamat Idriss Déby, son of the former president, and the government he appointed by decree.
The government explained on Friday that demonstrations were allowed under certain conditions, conditions
de facto
making
any demonstration on Saturday illegal.
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From our special correspondent in Ndjamena
David Baché
with the technical means of
Julien Boileau
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Peaceful demonstrations are allowed
.
The Chadian Ministry of Public Security is making an unprecedented gesture of openness, but with certain requirements.
The organizers must announce the route, supervise the demonstrators… and submit their request for authorization five days in advance.
To show the government's goodwill, we will not oppose the march.
The government has only one concern: to appease the political, social climate.
I can assure you firmly and definitively that the march will take place.
It will be framed.
But we say it clearly: the manifestation must not overflow.
If the march overflows, the recalcitrant will have the police before them ...
Government spokesman Abderaman Koulamallah confirms that the march will be exceptionally allowed, but he warns against overflowing
Florence Morice
Conditions which make it illegal, in the eyes of the transitional authorities, the march organized today by Wakit Tama.
Citizen coordination, however, maintains its call: Wakit Tama denounces an illegal decision taken by illegal authorities, the legitimacy of which it challenges.
Just as she disputes the support they are given by many countries, starting with France.
The march is maintained.
It is a right already for as citizens who do not recognize the Transitional Military Council which is set up, and as cytoens who also denounce the support of France ...
Alain Kemba Didah heads the citizen movement Le Temps, he is one of the coordinators of Wakit Tama
David Baché
The organizers therefore call on the Chadians to demonstrate in numbers and peacefully.
They also ask them not to bring any object likely to infringe public order.
But by their mere presence, the marchers will not meet the demands of the transitional government.
Will the instructions given to the police intervene, at all costs, to put an end to this march?
Or to play appeasement, to give pledges to the international community which had unanimously condemned the violence of April 27?
This previous march had killed 15 people according to civil society, 6 according to the authorities, and more than 700 arrests.
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