Coordination of armed resistance

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The coordination of the armed resistance ( French : Coordination de la Résistance Armée , CRA for short ) was an association of paramilitary organizations in Niger .

The coordination of the armed resistance united several irredentist Tuareg organizations that carried out attacks on state and private institutions in the early 1990s. Its purpose was to coordinate the activities of the various groups. It was founded on September 11, 1993 under the leadership of Mano Dayak . Its vice chairman was Rhissa Ag Boula . The founding organizations were the Aïr and Azawad Liberation Front , the Patriotic Front for the Liberation of the Sahara , the Revolutionary Army for the Liberation of North Niger and the Témoust Liberation Front . These differed in terms of the origin of their members, which were based on the Tuareg clans , and in terms of their religious orientation and political goals, which provided for federal integration, autonomy or independence for the north of Niger .

As the successor to the coordination of the armed resistance, the organization of the armed resistance was created on March 28, 1995 under the direction of Rhissa Ag Boula . On April 15, 1995, it concluded a peace agreement with the Nigerien government in Ouagadougou . Mano Dayak tried to reorganize the remaining core of the coordination of the armed resistance, which only belonged to the Témoust Liberation Front, in July 1995. Four smaller Tuareg and Tubu organizations joined her. Dayak died in a plane crash in late 1995. The leadership took over Mohammed Akotey, who now also led the Témoust Liberation Front. From the beginning of 1996, the coordination of the armed resistance sought a rapprochement with the organization of the armed resistance. In March 1996, she recognized the Ouagadougou Peace Accords and ordered a ceasefire on her own. At the end of May 1996, she signed a working agreement with the Organization of the Armed Resistance, with the purpose of coordinating the demands made on the Nigerien government. Both alliances were dissolved after the additional treaties concluded in 1997 in Algiers with the Niger government.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 145 and 377 .
  2. ↑ Emmanuel Grégoire: Niger Touaregs. Le destin d'un mythe . 2nd Edition. Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0352-1 , pp. 59 .
  3. ^ 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 14, 2015 (French).
  4. ↑ Chékou Koré Lawel : Rébellion touareg au Niger: approche juridique et politique. (PDF) Thèse de doctorate. Université René Descartes - Paris V, 2012, pp. 23, 44–45 , accessed on November 14, 2015 (French).