Attaher Abdoulmoumine

Attaher Abdoulmoumine (* 1964 ; also Attaher Abdelmoumine ) is a Nigerien paramilitary leader and politician .

Life

Attaher Abdoulmoumine belongs to a high class of society in the Tuareg Confederation of Ullemmeden Kel Dinnik. His father Mohamed Abdoulmoumine was the head of a Tuareg group. He attended elementary and secondary schools in Abalak , Agadez and Tahoua , but then interrupted his school career to join the Islamic Legion of Muammar al-Gaddafi in Libya . There he received military training from 1981 to 1984. He then fought for the Islamic Legion in Mali , Burkina Faso and Nigeria . Abdoulmoumine was involved in the attack on the sub-prefecture of Tchintabaraden , Niger, in May 1990, in which 31 people were killed. In the course of subsequent events, which included an army counter-offensive, his father was killed. Attaher Abdoulmoumine was arrested but released after three months.

He settled in the capital Niamey . There he became chairman of a committee that successfully campaigned for 44 Tuareg arrested in the north of Tahoua department to be released as a result of the attack on Tchintabarades. Abdoulmoumine became involved in other civil society institutions and was finally appointed head of the Takeita administrative post in November 1991 . For fear of being arrested again by the army, he fled shortly afterwards to the north of the country, where he joined the liberation front of the Aïr and Azawad under the leadership of Rhissa Ag Boula . The paramilitary, irredentist Tuareg organization tried to force Niger to rebuild the state by means of raids, murders and kidnappings . Abdoulmoumine fell out with Mano Dayak , one of his comrades-in-arms, whom he denied legitimation to represent the liberation front vis-à-vis the government. At the end of June 1993 he split off with his own organization, the Revolutionary Army of the Liberation of North Niger . On April 15, 1995, the government and the paramilitaries in Ouagadougou signed a peace agreement that also included a general amnesty for the former fighters.

Abdoulmoumine became vice-president of the committee responsible for implementing the peace agreement. After the new head of state Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara came to power , he was appointed State Secretary for Interior in the interim government on February 1, 1996 . He held this post until June 13, 1997. He stood in the parliamentary elections on November 23, 1996 as an independent candidate in the constituency of Abalak and was elected as a member of the National Assembly. In the same year he became the second vice-president of the National Assembly. Abdoulmoumine's political career ended with the fall of the government on April 9, 1999, in which Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara was killed. He then withdrew into private life.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chékou Koré Lawel : Rébellion touareg au Niger: approche juridique et politique. (PDF) Thèse de doctorate. Université René Descartes - Paris V, 2012, p. 109 , accessed on November 9, 2015 (French). 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Chékou Koré Lawel: Rébellion touareg au Niger: approche juridique et politique. (PDF) Thèse de doctorate. Université René Descartes - Paris V, 2012, pp. 44–45 , accessed on November 9, 2015 (French). 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 25-26 .
4. ^ Boukary Adji: Dans les méandres d'une transition politique . Karthala, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-86537-857-8 , pp. 157 .
5. ↑ Emmanuel Grégoire: Niger Touaregs. Le destin d'un mythe . 2nd Edition. Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0352-1 , pp. 51-52 .
6. ^ Accord établissant une paix définitive entre le Gouvernement de la République du Niger et l'Organisation de la Résistance Armée (ORA). (PDF) Fait à Ouagadougou, le 15 avril 1995. Accessed November 9, 2015 (French). 
7. ^ Gouvernement du President Ibrahim Maïnassara Barré. Présidence de la République du Niger, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved November 9, 2015 (French).