Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09NDJAMENA224
2009-06-12 11:18:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Ndjamena
Cable title:
CHADIAN MILITARY RELEASES REBEL CHILD SOLDIERS TO
how-toVZCZCXRO7563 OO RUEHBC RUEHBZ RUEHDE RUEHDH RUEHDU RUEHGI RUEHJO RUEHKUK RUEHMA RUEHMR RUEHPA RUEHRN RUEHROV RUEHTRO DE RUEHNJ #0224 1631118 ZNR UUUUU ZZH O 121118Z JUN 09 FM AMEMBASSY NDJAMENA TO RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC IMMEDIATE RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 6990 INFO RUEHZO/AFRICAN UNION COLLECTIVE PRIORITY RUEHEE/ARAB LEAGUE COLLECTIVE PRIORITY RUCNFUR/DARFUR COLLECTIVE PRIORITY RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC PRIORITY RHMFISS/HQ USAFRICOM STUTTGART GE PRIORITY
UNCLAS NDJAMENA 000224
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR AF/C, S/USSES AND G/TIP
NSC FOR GAVIN
LONDON FOR POL -- LORD
PARIS FOR POL -- KANEDA
ADDIS ABABA ALSO FOR AU
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PHUM MOPS SU CD
SUBJECT: CHADIAN MILITARY RELEASES REBEL CHILD SOLDIERS TO
UNICEF
This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet
dissemination.
UNCLAS NDJAMENA 000224
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR AF/C, S/USSES AND G/TIP
NSC FOR GAVIN
LONDON FOR POL -- LORD
PARIS FOR POL -- KANEDA
ADDIS ABABA ALSO FOR AU
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PHUM MOPS SU CD
SUBJECT: CHADIAN MILITARY RELEASES REBEL CHILD SOLDIERS TO
UNICEF
This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet
dissemination.
1. (SBU) Defense Attache and local staff attended a June 12
ceremony during which the Chadian military (ANT) handed 84
underage combatants, captured from Chadian rebel units in the
course of early May ANT fighting with rebels in Eastern Chad,
to UNICEF. That organization will work in coordination with
Care International to return the children to their families
and ensure social reintegration. MFA Moussa Faki Mahamat and
MOD Kamougue Wadal Abdelkader co-presided over the ceremony,
which was also attended by Chad's Ministers of Justice and
Social Affairs, other members of the diplomatic corps, NGO
reps, and former AU President (and President of Mali) Alpha
Oumar Konare.
2. (SBU) Both Faki and Kamougue emphasized that the GoC was
committed to honoring its engagement to international
conventions related to underage combatants, and that Chad
would cooperate and assist NGOs and others from the
international community in this regard. Kamougue claimed
retroactive credit for the GoC's having released 42 child
soldiers from the Front Unite pour le Changement (FUC) taken
prisoner in 1996 to UNICEF in that year, bringing the total
number of underage combatants handed from the GOC to UNICEF
to 557. (This includes today's release of 84.)
3. (SBU) UNICEF representatives who accepted the custody of
the 84 children praised the GOC for its cooperation and made
clear that UNICEF and Care International would work to assist
with schooling and reestablishing links with family members.
Former AU President Konare urged all Chadian groups not to
allow children to engage in armed conflict.
BREMNER
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR AF/C, S/USSES AND G/TIP
NSC FOR GAVIN
LONDON FOR POL -- LORD
PARIS FOR POL -- KANEDA
ADDIS ABABA ALSO FOR AU
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PHUM MOPS SU CD
SUBJECT: CHADIAN MILITARY RELEASES REBEL CHILD SOLDIERS TO
UNICEF
This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet
dissemination.
1. (SBU) Defense Attache and local staff attended a June 12
ceremony during which the Chadian military (ANT) handed 84
underage combatants, captured from Chadian rebel units in the
course of early May ANT fighting with rebels in Eastern Chad,
to UNICEF. That organization will work in coordination with
Care International to return the children to their families
and ensure social reintegration. MFA Moussa Faki Mahamat and
MOD Kamougue Wadal Abdelkader co-presided over the ceremony,
which was also attended by Chad's Ministers of Justice and
Social Affairs, other members of the diplomatic corps, NGO
reps, and former AU President (and President of Mali) Alpha
Oumar Konare.
2. (SBU) Both Faki and Kamougue emphasized that the GoC was
committed to honoring its engagement to international
conventions related to underage combatants, and that Chad
would cooperate and assist NGOs and others from the
international community in this regard. Kamougue claimed
retroactive credit for the GoC's having released 42 child
soldiers from the Front Unite pour le Changement (FUC) taken
prisoner in 1996 to UNICEF in that year, bringing the total
number of underage combatants handed from the GOC to UNICEF
to 557. (This includes today's release of 84.)
3. (SBU) UNICEF representatives who accepted the custody of
the 84 children praised the GOC for its cooperation and made
clear that UNICEF and Care International would work to assist
with schooling and reestablishing links with family members.
Former AU President Konare urged all Chadian groups not to
allow children to engage in armed conflict.
BREMNER