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Published: 29 July 2021
Protesting against the "confiscation" of the military junta of power since the death of President Idris Debbie Itno last April, hundreds of Chadian demonstrated in the capital N'Djamena amid an intense security spread.
Civil society groups and the opposition party Transformers called on Suxie Masra to demonstrate against "the confiscation of power and demand a review of the current Charter and the organization of an inclusive and inclusive National Sovereign Conference."
Holding a banner that read "No to the monarchy," Nersys, 22, said that his purpose in demonstrating was "to demand the restoration of democracy and justice and to pledge real peace."
In the midst of a massive security deployment and with no skirmishes or clashes, the protest authorized by the Military Council ran three kilometres down a block in the heart of the capital.
During the demonstration, the flags of France, the former colonial force and accused of part of the opposition of supporting the military junta, were burned, especially since French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to N'Djamena and his meeting with the new authority, following his participation in the burial ceremony of the former president in a move that no Western president had taken.
Wakit Tama platform coordinator Max Lollingar said: "We will continue to demonstrate until civilian authority is established," considering that France must choose the Chadian people as its true interlocutor, not a small group of individuals, or it will become the eternal enemy of the Chadian people. "
It should be noted that a transitional military council of 15 generals headed by the late President, General Mohamed Idriss Deby, took office on 20 April, declaring the former president dead during a battle against the rebels after three decades in power.
The Council pledged to organize "free and democratic elections" at the end of a transitional period of 18 months, renewable once.