The recently founded rebel group the Military Command Council for the Salvation of the Republic (CCMSR) has reported that they attacked Chadian troops along the Libyan border earlier this week, routing them and forcing them to withdraw.
The CCMSR seeks to overthrow the Deby government in Chad. The movement has a number of former Darfur rebels in its ranks, as well as allies of former President Habre. Habre is serving a life sentence in Senegal for crimes against humanity.
CCMSR says that the attack took place on Tuesday morning, and that the army forces fled in “total disarray, leaving behind sheep carcasses another heaps of food.” They did not offer any casualty figures.
Chadian military officials offered conflicting statements. The Security Minister denied that any rebel attack had taken place at all, while other military officials were quoted by Reuters as confirming fighting had taken place, without providing details.
from the files:
>The CIA had engineered the fall of the government of Chad in 1982, so that the United States would have a comfortably pro-US regime in place on Libya’s border to assist in the anti-Qaddafi effort.–Legacy of Ashes, Timothy Weiner
>The Military Command Council for the Salvation of the Republic (French acronym CCMSR) was formed in 2016 in southern Libya, it includes a number of rebels who previously fought with other groups. So it’s another legacy of the mistaken US attack on Libya, thanks to Obama and H. Clinton.