Chad Accuses European Union Troops of 'Aiding Rebels'

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Chad: EU force 'aiding rebels'

Rebels entered Ndjamena in February in an attempt to overthrow the
president

Chad's president has accused European troops deployed in his country of
co-operating with rebel forces who have captured towns in the east.

Idris Deby's accusation on Tuesday comes after a spokesman for the
opposition forces said the rebels had captured the town of Am Dam, about
600km east of Ndjamena, the capital.

"We took the town in the middle of the day ... The government troops did
not offer much resistance," Ali Gueddei, a rebel spokesman, said on
Sunday.

But Chad's information minister said the opposition fighters were
leaving the towns they had entered and were fleeing toward the Sudanese
border.

Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, and the UN Security Council, have
both condemned the attacks by the rebels.

The council warned on Monday that it would take measures against threats
to regional stability.

"The Security Council condemns in the strongest terms the attacks
conducted by Chadian armed groups since 11 June 2008," the council said.

'Westward push'

Am Dam is located 110km from Goz Beida to the northwest, which the
rebels briefly occupied on Saturday.

It lies much further from Chad's eastern border with Sudan, and closer
to the capital.

"Our objective is not to take towns but to clear obstacles on the road
to Ndjamena," Gueddei said.

He also said that their force was strong enough to take the capital.

A rebel alliance is said to be making its way towards Ndjamena to depose
Idriss Deby, the Chadian president.

They last attacked the capital in February and made an attempted coup in
2006.

EU troops attacked

European Union peacekeepers (Eufor) have said that they were attacked
near Goz Beida on Saturday, forcing them to return fire.

The troops are deployed to the area to protect refugees, civilians and
aid workers in eastern Chad.

There are around 500 Irish and 70 Dutch troops from the Eufor
contingent in the region, whose mission is to protect civilians and
refugees fleeing the violence in Darfur region of Sudan, just over the
border.

The European Union is deploying a total of 3,700 troops, including 2,200
French soldiers, to help protect Sudanese refugees and Chadians uprooted
by the conflict.

Eastern Chad is a temporary home to some 300,000 refugees who have fled
the Darfur conflict in Sudan.

The region also has camps for 187,000 Chadians displaced by fighting
both locally and in Darfur.

[Jalili]

They probably are aiding them in this Genocide.

Just the Europeans trying to set people against each other.

[Im The Truth]

Chad is yet another important resouce country in Africa, if I'm not mistaken Chevon is one of the oil companies that was recently upset that Chad wanted a bigger cut of the profit and dislikes Sudan's gov., which europe loves, it's easy to see how E.U. troops would attack Chad. I'm not a Chad gov. fan but I'm a E.U. hater.