Posted in: 05/12/2023 – 08:22
On Monday, 17 people were killed in an attack by gunmen on a village in southern Chad, near the border with the Central African Republic. Most of the inhabitants of this village belong to the Kaba ethnic group, which is concentrated especially in Chad and neighboring Central Africa, and the bulk of them are Christians and live from agriculture.
This was announced by the Prosecutor’s Office in Goreh District Chadian On Thursday, 17 people were killed in an attack launched by gunmen on Monday on a village in the south of the country, and he indicated that an investigation had been opened into the incidents.
Nirambai Ndobamian, the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Chad, in Goreh, south of N’Djamena, said in a statement that this “genocide” was committed at five o’clock (0400 GMT) Monday, when “unidentified gunmen” attacked the village of Doun in the eastern province of Logone, bordering the Central African Republic, about a distance 500 km south of the capital.
The prosecution stated that the attackers, armed with “firearms” and “white weapons,” came on “motorcycles and horses,” explaining that they “killed more than ten villagers, burned huts, seized bulls, and left a number of wounded on their way,” who were taken to Ghoriye Hospital.
-He added that 17 people were killed in this attack, including 11 “whose identities were officially identified” who were killed in the village of Dun and three others, three kilometers from the village, and three wounded – including an “infant” – died of their wounds. The same source said that other wounded were taken to medical centers.
-investigation
The Public Prosecution announced that it had opened an investigation into charges of murder, criminal assembly, arson and theft, and called witnesses to identify the perpetrators.
Most of the inhabitants of this village belong to the Kaba ethnic group, which is concentrated especially in Chad and neighboring Central Africa, and the bulk of them are Christians and live from agriculture.
In a statement, this group condemned the “cowardly, brutal and despicable acts” that were committed “in front of the eyes of the helpless and complicit administrative and military authorities” and called for the resignation of a number of local officials.
For its part, the Episcopal Conference in Chad confirmed on Monday that it was “shocked by the recurrence of conflicts between groups” in the south of the country.
Mostly fatal clashes between nomadic Muslim pastoralists on the one hand and sedentary indigenous farmers who are mostly Christians or pagans on the other are frequent in this sector as well as in the fertile regions on the borders of Chad, Cameroon and the Central African Republic.
France 24/AFP
