2023-05-18 11:25:20
At least 11 villagers were killed on Wednesday by cattle rustlers in southern Chad, the scene of frequent deadly raids and bloody conflicts between herders and farmers, the army said on Thursday, which claims to have killed seven assailants.
This new tragedy occurred the same day that N’Djamena announced that its army had carried out an unprecedented operation in the Central African Republic jointly with soldiers from this neighboring country to pursue, kill and capture Chadian cattle rustlers who massacred 17 villagers. ten days ago.
The attack took place in the extreme south of Chad, regarding sixty kilometers from the border with the Central African Republic.
On May 8, a similar raid in this province of Logone Oriental killed 17 people in a village and the army assured that the “bandits” were Chadians from the Central African Republic.
On Thursday, the general assured that the operation had ended the day before, with a toll of “dozens of thieves killed”, and that all the Chadian soldiers had returned to Chad, with 30 prisoners and 130 oxen stolen.
The reports delivered by the army of its operations are impossible to verify from an independent source in these regions.
It was a first between these two neighboring countries of Central Africa, usually cold, which regularly accuse each other of harboring and supporting movements of their respective rebellions on their borders.
The latter and his Chadian counterpart Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno “took this decision together to eradicate the bandits on each side of the border”, he added.
In addition to this bloody looting, very deadly inter-community clashes, opposing nomadic Muslim herders and mostly Christian or animist sedentary farmers, are very frequent in this fertile area on the borders of Chad, Cameroon and the Central African Republic.
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