Forces Armées Populaires
The Forces Armées Populaires (English: People's Armed Forces, short: FAP ) was a Chadian rebel group that was formed in 1976 and was active until the late 1980s. The leader of the group was Goukouni Oueddei .
history
The FAP was created through the split of the pro-Libyan group FROLINAT into an anti-Libyan minority under Hissene Habre , the FAN , and a pro-Libyan majority, the FAP, under Oueddei. The FAP fought alongside Gaddafi against the Chadian troops in the Libyan-Chadian border war and was able to bring large parts of northern Chad under its control through offensives in 1977 and 1978. Through the Kano Agreement, signed on March 16, 1979, the FAP leader Oueddei became President of Chad as chairman of a government of national unity (GUNT) , in which anti-Libyan forces around Oueddei's adversary Habre were also represented. Oueddei's pro-Libyan policies quickly broke the government and led to bloody fighting between FAN and FAP in the Chadian capital of N'djamena . In the ensuing nationwide conflict, the alliance between the FAP and Libya broke up, so that the FAP lost its political importance and many supporters switched to the Chadian armed forces. Oueddei was captured by Libyan forces in March 1986 .