THE LIBERTY N&DEG 10

Independent Newspaper of all Djiboutians of the opposition.

All information that the regime of M. GUELLEH looks for à to hide.

AHMED SALAH
Djiboutian runner of the marathon
jailed by the dictatorial regime for political reasons.
(CF THE LIBERTY N&DEG 9)

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The civilians are victims of the reprisals
of the army National Djiboutian (AND)
2 people have been killed November 28.
Him sagit of
Youssouf Hamid Ali,75 years, okal,
Abakari Hassan Abakari, 34 years.

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2 ÈME CONGERS OF THE UIDH OUAGADOUGOU À
Election of Me AREF à the Vice-presidency
Horn of Africa

Mr. AREF

The President of the UIDH

Has Jean Wolf Schaal, the 30/11/99,

" We have à the unaminité of the participants at a congress present Ouagadougous à, carried,
Aref Mohamed Aref à the vice presidency of the UIDH Charged of the zone
Horn of Africa.

Carry him the news.

With my encouragements

Halidou Ouédraogo "

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01/12 many messages of congratulations are received à the seat of our Association. They come from all over the world. We send them à
Me AREF.

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Note of the ARDHD:
Mr. Mohamed AREF is harassed permanently (harassment against him and against all personalities of the opposition) by dictatorship of Djibouti. After having jailed it à two resumptions for merely political reasons, M Guelleh, elected President thanks to an unprecedented electoral fraud, made it scratch the bar of Djibouti. makes it convene regularly by the State police.
He/it made him withdraw his/her/its passport also.


For this reason, Me Aref could not surrender à the 2nd Congrés of the UIDH OUagadougou à.
The action of Me AREF in favor of the man's Rightses is recognized internationallement.
The dictatorial regime of M Guelleh wants to punish " it " because of his/her/its holds of position in favor of the democracy and the justice, not only Djibouti à, but in all others countries.

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Five soldiers and 15 rebels killed à the northeast of Djibouti.
(AFP source: Minitel 01 36 29 36 29)

29/11
" Five Djiboutian governmental strength soldiers and a quizaine of maquisards of the wing radical of the Forehead for the Restoration of the unit and the Democracy (FRUD) have been killed in grapplings à the northeast of Djibouti, according to sources in agreement.
These grapplings took place this week in the district of Obock, around the massif of the Nabla, à about 300 km à the northeast of Djibouti.
A communiqué of the Defense ministry distributed Tuesday on radio - Djibouti makes state of five deaths and seven injureds among the governmental strengths and assure that " some important losses have been recorded of the side of the malefactors ". A fortnight of rebels would have been killed, according to a military source.
The army pushed of units of the police and the state police hired since two weeks an operation of combing in the northeast of Djibouti.....


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02/12: AMIR ADAWEH WOULD ALWAYS BE INCARCERATED IN ETHIOPIA.

Amir Adaweh is a journalizes Djiboutian that had been stopped in on demand Ethiopia of M. Guelleh, whereas he passed there of vacations. Of his/her/its news didn't have since more people.
Some knowledgeable sources spoke of an incarceration in the city of Harare in awful conditions, without no contact with the outside world.

Since rumors pretended that he/it had been freed and that he/it was assigned à residence. His/her/its mother went lately to the city of Harare. She/it could not meet it
and the authorities assured it that he/it was always incarcerated with interdiction to communicate...

We know that Reporters Without Borders follow with attention this journalist's situation.

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HOMAGE À THE VICTIMS OF THE MASSACRE OF ARRIBA
perpetuated December 18, 1991

A demonstration will be organized December 18, 1999 close to the embassy of Djibouti to return homage à the victims of the Massacre of Arriba.

Numerous Associations solicit your presence, to refuse dictatorship and to denounce all violences exercised by the regime of M. Guelleh in opposition to the civil and innocent populations.

We will communicate all details in our next number.

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MAIL OF THE READERS
We take anonymous way (to guarantee the security of the authors) the complete content of the letters that is addressed us. To avoid all polemic us chose not to answer à the critiques voluntarily.

I want to receive the subscription of your newspaper that I find strong
interesting. Without going in the game of the critiques, I think that your
initiative is just insofar as the Djiboutian citizens and the friends
of Djibouti have the right to receive a different analysis of the situation
of the one of the government.
Has this title I find your bulletin worthy to have his/her/its place in proceedings
of ideas.

Thank you beforehand.

SM

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I had the opportunity time and again to read a few messages that you
send on the site AGORA - DJIBOUTI and I would have liked to know if the
different obectifs, that you assigned yourselves (that is to say
sensibilisation,signature of petitions) have been reached?

As writing these phrases,je smells like somewhat " stupid " .En effect aprés
everything that the résultats,le imports all that is that people maximum is
aware and I think that since soon one year they must be he.
But that this is information, if it is not followed of effect?

Coming me mme of Djibouti, I could observe the inertia of the population
facing the different pbles and exactions to which we are quotiennement
confronted without no energetic reactions and collective surtt (!!!) of
does our part make themselves sentir.Alors,que must one to make?

I often thought that aprés tout,ce that happens to us us wants it some
part since we don't make anything so that it changes (one has that the
governments that one deserves) and another côté,on says itself than us
don't have the right not to make anything from the moment where one has
conscience of a pble. And it is what you make!

I am agreed always with the rule that said " that is not parce
that one is not able to anything faire,que one must also make " anything I would like well
to know a few more your association and if I can be you useful of
some manner that this soit,cela will be with pleasure.

HB

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Of new attacks against the ARDHD and the newspaper ' THE LIBERTE'

I have just discovered your site and me then to recognize the country of which I am native.
I would like well that you stop your disgusting analyses and infondeés on the present situation of the country. I believe that you are ill placed to advance some critiques incencées democratically on our valorous elected president while DINI AHMED put some bombs in the north of the country and that SALAH AHMED
quidnappait of the miners girls in the big bara and finally that FOAMED AHMED worked has bottom in his/her/its bussiness of manufacturer of breads.
You gentleman the French try to manage your problems of insane cow and foie gras. young Djiboutian student association excacerbés by your manipulations between the people Djiboutian.

By Souleiman SOUBANEH

Commentaries of the ARDHD
In accordance with our principles, we won't answer on the bottom à this reader. We note merely that the growing success of our newspaper disturbs the dictatorial power of M GUELLEH, and that it doesn't have a no means to reduce it à the silence. The attacks are thrown regularly, probably à his/her/its instigation or with his/her/its blessing, in all senses... à the contempt of all truth. After the injuries, the untruths, xenophobia, we have the right today à the gossips of caretaker stall...

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FOREHEAD FOR THE RESTORATION
OF
THE UNIT AND THE DEMOCRACY

Contact: 0032/476342583

Brussels, the 27 11 1999,

COMMUNICATE PRESS 27/11/99



Some violent fights opposed today the resistant of the FRUD à the troops governmental Kousras à in the Mabla (region of Tadjourah).
These confrontations balanced themselves by several deaths side soldiers, of which two field officers and eleven soldiers injureds have been admitted in the hospitals of the capital.

The regime of guelleh persists à in playing sound goes all military instead of privilègier a solution politicizes à it is in crisis Djiboutian and it is even if it proposes à the summit of the IGAD a plane semblance of peace for the countries of the region in war (Somalia, Sudan).

So much that the conditions minimal, previous à a pacific réglement of the conflict won't be united, the FRUD will see itself reinforcing in his/her/its struggle for the liberty of the Djiboutian people.

Finally, we throw a call à the international community so that she/it intervenes in favor of the population civil victim of the reprisals of the army who accuses it of sympathy for the FRUD.

MOHAMED A HOUMADO
Spokesman of the direction of the FRUD

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FOREHEAD FOR THE RESTORATION
OF
THE UNIT AND THE DEMOCRACY

Contact: 0032/476342583

Brussels, the 29 11 1999,

COMMUNICATE PRESS 29/11/99

 




À the sixth day of the fights, the confrontations continue between the fighters of the FRUD and the elements of the FAD (Djiboutians armed services), that came à of it fights it à the hand-to-hand fight in the sector of the Dadars mounts.
The military attacks thrown since November 24 Tewele à spread à more the south Galela à, Aïri and Kousra in the district of Tadjourah.

The reinforcements of the FAD rushed since Assa gaïla and Adaïlou have been intercepted in the sector of Aïlaadou. Of other elements of the FAD past more à the north toward Himmisso wrecked camps of the nomads in the sectors of Aïri and Galela where many civilians without weapons have been slaughtered.

The military authorities have forbid all circulation from the city of Tadjourah. What means a food blockade since all populations of the district of Tadjourah get a stock à this county seat.

On the other hand a delegation of officers of the state regimental adjutant of the FAD driven by the general Fathi surrendered today Addis-Abeba(Ethiopie à) to ask for help. If the authorities Ethiopian adheres à the Djiboutian wish, the risk of a regionalization of the conflict is à to fear with his/her/its consequences for the future of the country.

MOHAMED A HOUMADO
Spokesman of the direction of the FRUD

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RADIO FRANCE INTERNATIONALE,
RFI, NOVEMBER 24, 1999

INTERVIEW OF Me Georges Henri BEAUTHIER
of the Federation Internationale of the man's Rightses - FIDH

One knew the conditions of laborious detention in the jails of Djibouti. One ignored the size of the disaster however. The judicial system of the country is à the agony. Has the demand of the French government, four experts have just driven a mission. The results are oppressive. Corruption, absence of judges and lawyers, it is the universe of the non-droit explained à Christine Muratet, by one members of the delegation, Mr. Georges Henri Beauthier of the Federation Internationale of the man's Rightses.

The French lawyer Georges Henri Beauthier:
There are flagrant violations of the human rights, not solely in the jail but also in the whole system that brings of the people à the jail. (~comme said it the magistrate of the Supreme Court of Djibouti, " the judicial system is à the agony ", has us it says, " if it didn't die ".

What hit you especially during this mission?
The total absence of judges and I would say the big absence of the lawyers. One doesn't take care of these people who are in detention awaiting trial during, for some, seven years. I said seven years well. There is some that are condemned, they are condemned for political reasons. And when they are condemned for crimes of common right, there is not any possible reinsertion. Has the limit, it is them that one will free the firsts to empty the jails and to fill them of objectors when there is a demonstration.

There is a corruption, there are the judges who are not à obviously places them, there is a justice that himself slaked completely, one has a total arbitrariness, therefore it is the non-droit.

I believe that it is important to see that, next to the organisms as the international Federation of the human rights and the observatory of the jails, there are French official processes as the ministry of the justice by his/her/its penitentiary administration, that can, on the basis of a report, to make an assessment of their cooperation.

Is the French government going to continue à to give money, à to cooperate, so that the means ages gets settled a few more, so that the corruption continues fair à of the devastations, so that obviously the non-droit is the law?

The no one that was with us, that depended on the penitentiary administration, is clearly a former director of the Health Jail who was able to, with his/her/its appraisal, to say " this type of building cannot be conceived for a hot country, there is not a ventilation, one has 39-40 degrees à shades " it.

The absence of cares, the legal follow-up absence, the absence of judges of the application of the pains, made so that the report is limpid. The French government is going to give, I hope for it, quickly an answer to avoid that cooperation doesn't act as walk - foot
à this medieval regime.

END OF THE TRANSCRIPTION

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URGENT APPEAL

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

DJIBOUTI AREF MOHAMED AREF, AGED 46, LAWYER AND HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER


Amnesty International believes that to form prisoner of conscience Aref Mohamed Aref, has prominent in defender of human rights Djibouti Africa and, is at risk of being imminently arrested heart his peaceful criticisms of the government. Yew this happens hey is likely to face has lengthy period in detention awaiting trial however be sentenced to has long jail term.

This follows new moves by the authorities to silence opposition critics and comes after has television interview hey crams October in 1999 to has French journalist in which hey expressed his nonviolent views and criticized human rights violations in Djibouti - the journalist and cameraman were subsequently deported and their movie confiscated.

One 22 November 1999, during questioning by the civilizes (state police) ends the interview, hey was told that proceedings had been opened against him one the loads of defamation (slander). This means hey could be summoned again heart questioning at any time, possibly remanded in custody, and be unfairly tried under has defamation law inconsistent standard international with one freedom of opinion and expression.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Aref Mohamed Aref, has prisoner of conscience from 1991 to 1992, has been the leading (and virtually only) human rights lawyer in Djibouti heart some years. Hey has been year Amnesty International delegate at preliminary rallies one the establishment of year International Criminal Court and other missions and is has member of the African Human Rights Defenders network, established in Johannesburg in December 1998.

In February 1999 hey was jailed heart six months after year unfair trial heart alleged fraud (swindle) connected to has civilian slot in which hey had been involved in 1994 (Extra see 15/99, 8 February 1999 and follow ups). Amnesty International believes the charge, which hey denied, were politically motivated. Hey was released by the newly inaugurated presides Ismael Omar Guelleh in May under year amnesty.

In December 1998, security strengths prevented him boarding has plane to Paris where hey was due to waits has Human Rights Defenders Summit. His passport, confiscated at the time, has still not been returned to him and the proclamation imposed one him practising law is still in strength (see News Release: 24 June 1999, AFR 23/05/99).

In September 1999, Amnesty International issued year Urgent Action after has government crackdown one the last two remaining opposition newspapers in Djibouti, when three journalists from the papers were arrested. All cuts now been sentenced to jail terms and their newspapers banned because they published articles critical of the government (see UA 254/99, AFR 23/07/99, 28 September 1999 and updates).

RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send telegrams/faxes/express/airmail letters in French however your own language:
- expressing concern that human rights defender Aref Mohamed Aref is at risk of imminent arrest and imprisonment following recent questioning by civilizes after hey crams has television interview in which hey expressed nonviolent his expressed an opinion in and criticized human rights violations Djibouti;
- calling heart the withdrawal of judicial proceedings against him one the loads of defamation - has law which is not consist with international standard of freedom of expression;
- asking that his passport is returned to him and that hey is allowed to practice his profession ace has lawyer;
- appealing heart protection of the right to freedom of nonviolent opinion and expression.

APPEALS TO (please notes that in fax numbers Djibouti are sometimes difficult to obtain):

President
His/her/its Excellence Mr. Ismael Omar Guelleh
President of Republic
The Presidency
BP 6
Djibouti, Republic of Djibouti
Telegrams: President, Djibouti,
Fax: + 253 350174
Greeting: Mr. the President of Republic / Dear Président

Minister of Justice
Mr. Ibrahim Idriss Djibril
Attorney-general
Department of Justice
BP 12
Djibouti, Republic of Djibouti
Telegrams: Minister Justice, Djibouti,
Fax: + 253 353840 (via Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Greeting: Mr. the Minister / Dear Minister

TO COPIES:

Excel Minister
Mr. Barkat Gourad Hamadou
Prime Minister
BP 2086
Djibouti, Republic of Djibouti
Fax: + 253 351208

Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Ali Abdi Farah
Foreign minister
Foreign business Ministry
BP 1863
Djibouti, Republic of Djibouti
Fax: + 253 353840

and to diplomatic representative DJIBOUTI of accredited to your country.

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MURMURED AND RUMORS

01/12: One signals us that the army National Djiboutian (AND) would have undergone of very heavy losses in the districts of Obock and Tadjourah.

According to the same sources, many soldiers would have refused to go à fights it against the FRUD. Some would desert to rally the units of the FRUD.

The Government would have been forced to make call à of the SOMALI ethnic group reinforcements. À the total, he/it would have rushed more than 450 men and he/it asked of the help à for Ethiopia.

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Note of the ARDHD:

The AND threw a vast offensive in the North with important means and probably the logistical help of the French army. He/it is à to note that this offensive intervenes after the French subsidy obtaining and IMF. It confirms our fears. We had thrown of the calls à the IMF and à France to quit sibventionner the dictatorial regime while affirming that the subsidies would be used to take the War. It is now confirmed by the facts.
And these are the civil populations that are again the victims of this war: rapes, summary executions, depredations, destructions of villages and water point, etc...

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02/12: The losses of the army National Djiboutian (AND) in the North would be very superior à the official balances

The AND would have lost ten men à this day and more of hundred injureds have been posted.

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THE DJIBOUTIAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAGUE (LDDH)

President CHRISTMAS - ABDI Jean-Paul
Djibouti

 

COMMUNICATE OF PRESS N&DEG 11/LDDH/1999
of the 29/11/99

 

Again, blood sinks à the North. At the time of the futureses of combing enterprises by the governmental strengths, the civil populations are the first victims of this conflict who take place behind closed doors. After the massive and arbitrary arrests of the nomads of Andoli (District of Obock) à numbers it of 17 people, the LDDH collected information of executions against the civilians in the district of Tadjourah sector of Galela (à 30 km of the county seat). At present the death of two people is indisputable:

It is about of:

YOUSSOUF HAMID ALI, 75 years, OKAL,
AHAKARJ HASSAN ABAKARJ, 34 years,

They have been executed in their camps
by the elements of the governmental strengths
November 28 1999 à 16 hours.

 

Among the personalities stopped Andoli à, some are tortured seriously in the military garrison of Obock.

It is about of:

ALI IBRAHIM HOUMED,
MOHAMED AHMED MOUSSA
IBRAHIM ABDALLAH MOHAMED
MOHAMED ABDALLAH
OUSBO HOUMED HASSAN

We ignore that of which they are accused.

The LDDH follows the situation attentively and throw a call so that the civil population is saved in this conflict.


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02/12: ARDHD document

Aprés to have cashed the first subsidies of the IMF...
.... Mr. Isamël Omar Guelleh throws back the war!


The majority of the Associations concerned by the situation Djibouti à had alerted the IMF and his/her/its chief executive Mr. CAMDESSUS, to ask him to not to grant any new loans à the Djiboutian regime. Our calls were motivated by the fact that these subsidies had all odds to be diverted from their destination and to serve à to reactivate the war.

Our fears were founded, since since the first remittances, Mr. Guelleh hastened to throw back military further transactions of span in the Northeast. Besides the fighters of the two camps: the army National Djiboutian, the Police and the State police on one hand, the resistant of the FRUD of the other, these fights are devastating for the civil populations. One mentions many summary execution cases, of tortures, of rapes, of destructions of dwelling, livestocks and water point by the governmental strengths.

So the money of the IMF, instead of benefitting à the civil populations, is used to annihilate them.


I.O. GUELLEH: the research illusory of the absolute power!

Mr. Guelleh, elected President thanks to an unprecedented electoral fraud, look for à to institute an absolute power on Djibouti. He/it is probably the only one with his/her/its setting near à to be persuaded that he/it will arrive there. History showed that it was impossible to lock all indefinitely a people under a tread of lead in.

1 - he/it is not more possible to prevent than news of the outside arrive in a country: the progress achieved in term of transportation of the communication made fall the most insulated borders.

Mr. Guelleh made to stop and to jail all journalists of the opposition and to forbid their newspapers. A new newspaper has immediately been thrown on Internet...

Mr. Guelleh made forbid the access à this newspaper from Djibouti: the newspaper is distributed henceforth by subscription in them limp E-mail, etc.

2 - all personalities of the opposition are victims of a permanent harassment:

• numerous are those that are often jailed Gabode à without judgment and without even the beginning of a judicial instruction,
  
• numerous are those that are convened by the Police regularly or by the State police to be sensible in business gone up from all pieces,
  
• numerous are those that are seen themselves withdrawing their passport,
  all are placed on monitoring telephonic perm and the power has their subscriptions cut periodically (sometimes during 2 à 3 days.)
  
• numerous are the families who are victims of this harassment: school stock market refusals, confinement, convocation à civilizes it, etc.

3 - the bar of Djibouti doesn't count only one free and independent lawyer anymore. The lawyers don't assure the defense of the objectors anymore. The only even free lawyers were rayed of the bar by order of the power and the other have fear to lose their situation, very remunerative for some....

4 - the conditions of detention in the Jail of Gabode and in the one of Obock are awful: the convicts are heaped without hygiene and don't have access à the cares. Mohamed KADAMY, the only à have been hospitalized following an international campaign of protest, really was not tidy. It survives, menotté à his/her/its bed of hospital under housemaid keeps, but no medical analysis has been practiced to understand the reasons of his/her/its renal insufficiency. His/her/its wife struggles since France to try to make practice some analyses in a private laboratory, but à latest news, she always collided à an official refusal.

 

He/it is time to stop the massacres and the semblances.

All denounced above facts have been confirmed by reports emanating associations or incontestable personalities: Lawyers Without Border (ASF), Federation Internationale of the man's Rightses (FIDH), International Observatory of the Jails, Organization of the African unit (OAU), Union interafricaine of the man's Rightses (UIDH), World Organization against the Torture (OMCT), Union of the Lawyers Européens (UAE), international Committee of the Jurists (CIJ), Amnesty International, French-speaking Alliance etc.

We ask for à the French and European politicians of more to be content with condemning the Djiboutian regime, but to put in place of the economic sanctions and a stop of the subsidies in conformity with the terms of the convention of Lomé.

These subsidies are used exclusively to enslave a people and to enrich his/her/its leaders, who maintain themselves à the power by terror. Has Djibouti, as in a certain number of other states, it is unhappy to note that the international helps, agreed of good faith, produce the adverse effect of the one that is sought-after. They contribute in the facts à the impoverishment of the populations.

Republic of Djibouti, already discredited as regards to the democracy and the man's Rightses, is now discredited on the economic plan. What is he/it going to remain him, after a military country assaults in the North?


The regime is already forced after some days of fight à to ask for his/her/its neighbor's support: Ethiopia to get military reinforcements... but à what price, for Djibouti???

Jean - Wolf SCHAAL
ARDHD

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02/12: BURKINA FASO

URGENT ACTIONS HAVE ALL SECTIONS OF THE UIDH

November 26, 1999, the Collective of the democratic organizations of
mass and of political parties of Burkina, following the harassments,
police, arrests and acts of intimidation in opposition to the
popular demonstrations these last times, called, through one
declaration, the strengths of security and the national armed services of the
Burkina à " to guarantee the security " and " à to defend the people's liberty
à to demonstrate ".

This call thrown on the eve of the demonstrations projected by the
Collective on the occasion of the anniversary Ier of Norbert's murder
ZONGOS and his/her/its mates, has been addressed among others, à the Minister of the
Defense of Burkina and published by way of press.

Following this declaration, the power took the questioning and
the acts of intimidation. Thus, Wednesday December 1999 1st, the,
friend Halidou OUEDRAOGO, President of the Movement Burkinabè of the Rightses,
of the man and Peoples (MBDHP) and of the Collective, Mr. Tolé SAGNON,
Chief of Staff of the General Confederation of the Work of Burkina
(CGTB) and vice-president of the Collective, Mr. André TIBIRI Secrétaire,
General of the General union of the Students of Burkina (UGEB), Mr.
Bénéwendé SANKARAS preside the union of the Young Lawyers of Burkina
(UJAB) cosigners of the so-called declaration, Mr. Boureima SIGUE,
director of publication of the newspaper " The Country ", Mr. Paulin YAMEOGO,
director of publication of the weekly " San Fina " has - they make
the object of questioning à the Criminal Investigation Department of Ouagadougou. Them
will be relaxed à in the evening 18 hours.

The 02/12/1999, convened all over again, they have been auditioned and have been kept à
seen in the premiseses of the Safety.

This questioning follows the one intervened, the 27/11/1999, in
the night, of professor Kapet of BANA and Mr. Julien TOGBADJA,
respectively presidents of the leagues Cameroonian and Beninese of the
Rights of the man for support à a popular rally against the impunity
held Ouagadougou à the 27/11/1999.

These acts constitute bass tones reaches à the freedom of speech and
of demonstration and are likely to make obstacle à the requirement
popular of the pursuits and the necessary punishment in opposition to the
authors of the murder of journalist Norbert ZONGO and his/her/its
mates.




ASKED ACTIONS

To address without delay by fax, E-MAIL, telephone or by all other
means of the correspondences à the political authorities of Burkina for
:
*Protester against these acts in what they constitute some violations of
the Universal Declaration of the man's Rightses, of the Charter African,
of the Rightses of the man and Peoples, of the related to pact the Rightses
civil and political, of the convention against the torture, and of the
arrangement of the articles 3,7 and 8 of the constitution of Burkina.
*Exiger:

1°) The immediate liberation and without condition of Gentleman Halidou
OUEDRAOGO, Tolé SAGNON, André TIBIRI, Mr. SANKARA Bénbéwendé SANKARA,
Boureima SIGUE and Paulin YAMEOGO.
2°) The end of the harassments in opposition to the democratic and militant
of the human rights in the business Norbert ZONGO.

3°) The pursuit and the regular judgment by honest magistrates of the
authors of the murder of Norbert ZONGO and other.

To address à:

Mr. Blaise COMPAORE
President of Faso
Ouagadougou
Burkina
Fax: 00 (226) 31. 49. 26

Mr. the Minister of state, foreign minister,
Fax: 00 (226) 30.87.92
03 BPS 7038 OUAGADOUGOUS 03
Burkina

Mr. the Minister of the national defense
01 BPS 496 OUAGADOUGOUS 01
Burkina

Mr. the Minister of the justice
Ouagadougou Burkina
Fax: 31.71.37
01 BPS 526 OUAGADOUGOUS 01

We thank you for sending back à the secretariat of the UIDH the text of the
correspondence that you addressed à the authorities of Burkina.

Ouagadougou the 02 / 12/1999

TO WRITE -> ADDRESS E-MAIL: uidh@fasonet.bf

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03/12 BURKINA FASO
LATEST NEWS

HAS ALL SECTIONS OF THE UIDH

HAS ALL INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF DEFENSE OF THE MAN'S RIGHTSES

This day, December 1999 3, President Halidou Ouédraogo, Me Sankara, Gentleman Sagnon Tolé, André Tibiri, Paulin Yaméogo and other have been submitted à the Public prosecutor's office of the Courthouse of 1st Process of Ouagadougou. They are pursued for reach à the safety of the state.
After have been received by the District attorney of republic, they have been allowed à to regain their domicile around 13 hours (hour of Ouagadougou).
Has been asked them to present itself/themselves all over again à the public prosecutor's office Tuesday 7 décembre1999.

NB: Of the pressures (strikes, rallies, .etc) of the movements democratic à Burkina, and the protests coming from the outside are recorded.
We thank you for pursuing the actions asked following the call urgent of December 2, 1999.


Otherwise, in the perspective of a suit against the Halidou friend and his/her/its mates, he/it is asked à every section to proceed à a campaign of sensitization by the public opinion of his/her/its country, especially at the place of the lawyers so that they constitute themselves to defend these defenders of the human rights in struggle against the impunity.
You will try to keep contact with the secretariat of the UIDH to provide him all information in your possession.
Militant greetings.

Ouagadougou, December 3, 1999

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