Political opposition and civil society are all unanimous: the presidential pardons granted to protesters et to the fighters of the Front pour l’alternance et la concorde (Fact) are ” a step in the right direction, but not enough to defuse the tensions weighing on the country “explains one of them.
They continue to demand from the transitional president a presidential pardon for the leaders of Fact, also sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia and who have been excluded from this measure.
But they also demand an independent and impartial international investigation to shed light on the bloody repression of black thursday » : « We judged the victims of the repression and not the executioners who shot them “, hammered the opponent Yaya Dillo, president of the socialist party without borders.
The parties also call for real negotiations between the power with those who are not part of the current transitional government, so that they can arrive at ” inclusive and peaceful elections ».
Attempt to relax in view of the next deadlines ?
For its part, the government believes that ” pardon, which is a discretionary act, belongs to the Head of State and is a sign that he wants to give additional chances for a definitive peace in Chad “Reacted government spokesman Aziz Mahamat Saleh.
He believes that dialogue was never broken by the government “, he assures, recalling that “ mediators and facilitators act in this direction for peace in Chad “. This in an allusion to the Catholic community of San’t Egidio, which has been trying for months to relaunch talks with the 18 politico-military movements that have not signed the Doha agreementwith Ndjamena’s consent, according to our sources.
Chadian political scientist Evariste Ngarlem Toldé places the decision of the transitional president in the current context: he believes that Mahamat Idriss Deby is trying to ease the situation, but it will not be easy given the upcoming deadlines.
The pardon was announced when “the constitutional referendum is planned by the end of the year”, a delicate timetable, estimates Chadian political scientist Evariste Ngarlem Toldé
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