Patriotic Front for the Liberation of the Sahara

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The Patriotic Front for the Liberation of the Sahara ( French Front Patriotique de Liberation du Sahara , FPLS for short ), also Popular Front for the Liberation of the Sahara (French: Front Populaire de Liberation du Sahara ), was a paramilitary organization in Niger .

The FPLS was one of the most important irredentist Tuareg organizations of the 1990s, responsible for attacks against state and private institutions. It was founded in January 1994 under the leadership of Mohamed Anako as a split from the Aïr and Azawad Liberation Front . It consisted of about 200 fighters and shared its area of ​​operations in the Aïr with the Revolutionary Army of the Liberation of North Niger . Their goal was to detach the Sahara regions from the Nigerien state. The FPLS was comparatively moderate in its political demands. In her activities she showed a closeness to organized crime . The FPLS coordinated with other Tuareg paramilitaries in coordinating the armed resistance and in its successor organization, the armed resistance organization , which on April 15, 1995 concluded a peace agreement with the Niger government. In the fall of 1995, FPLS leader Mohamed Anako became vice-president of the Organization of the Armed Resistance. Dissatisfied with the implementation of the peace agreement, the FPLS left the organization of the armed resistance in autumn 1996. She resumed the fight, but returned to the negotiating table after two months of guerrilla activity. In 1997 it concluded an additional agreement with the Nigerien government in Algiers . In 1998 it was disarmed and dissolved.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Chékou Koré Lawel : Rébellion touareg au Niger: approche juridique et politique. (PDF) Thèse de doctorate. Université René Descartes - Paris V, 2012, pp. 47–48 , accessed on November 14, 2015 (French).
  2. ^ A b Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 145 and 239 .
  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).