Revolutionary Army of the Liberation of North Niger

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The Revolutionary Army of the Liberation of North Niger ( French Armée Révolutionnaire de Liberation du Nord-Niger , short ARLNN ) was a paramilitary organization in Niger .

The ARLNN was one of the most important irredentist Tuareg organizations of the 1990s, responsible for attacks against state and private institutions. It was founded in June 1993 as a split from the Aïr and Azawad Liberation Front . Their leader was Attaher Abdoulmoumine . The ARLNN demanded extensive political, economic, social and cultural autonomy for the areas populated by Tuareg. It consisted of no more than a hundred permanent fighters. She shared her area of ​​operations with the Patriotic Front for the Liberation of the Sahara . From September 11, 1993, the ARLNN coordinated with other Tuareg paramilitaries in coordinating the armed resistance . In 1994 and 1995 a total of three splinter groups split off from the ARLNN. The organization was dissolved in April 1995 after the peace treaty with the Nigerien government.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 68 .
  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. ↑ a b Chékou Koré Lawel : Rébellion touareg au Niger: politique et approche juridique. (PDF) Thèse de doctorate. Université René Descartes - Paris V, 2012, pp. 44–45 , accessed on November 14, 2015 (French).