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There seems to be no let-up in the general outcry over the inter-community violence in Mandakao canton in the western Logone region. While the authorities continue to defend the theory of premeditated killings instigated by Succès Masra, the report of the fact-finding mission of the Collectif des Associations des Droits de l'Homme (ADH) presents a different version of events. According to the report, "testimonies gathered from local residents, administrative officials and relatives of the victims seem to favor a classic farmer-herder conflict, which degenerated, as often happens in Chad", reports RFI. Shortly after the publication of this investigation, the public prosecutor at the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Ndjamena, Oumar M. Kedelaye, issued a ban on journalists and members of civil society travelling to Mandakao to investigate the case on June 14. The prosecutor justified his decision "in view of the sensitivity" of the case, insisting that "any other parallel approach" to the official investigation could be liable to prosecution. 

Meanwhile, new massacres occurred between Tuesday June 10 and Thursday June 13 in a village in the canton of Molou, in the Ouaddaï province, in the east of the country. More than twenty people were killed in inter-community violence. According to local sources, the local authorities initially tried to hush up the affair by paying a diya (Islamic financial compensation) to the victim's family. It also took the combined pressure of the media, civil society and several Ouaddaï MPs for a mission comprising four ministers, including those of Public Security, Justice and the government spokesman, to visit the scene on Monday June 17. These two tragic events, during which the Chadian government has, according to some sections of public opinion, been evasive, raise questions about Ndjamena's ability to ensure the safety of the country's interior populations.

Success Masra still in prison

After being remanded in custody at the end of May, opposition politician and former Prime Minister Succès Masra was heard - on June 3 - for the first time since his arrest. Charged with "inciting hatred and revolt" and "forming and aiding and abetting an organized gang", he is accused of inciting the massacre of 42 herders by farmers on May 14 in his native Western Logone region. On June 24, Succès Masra announced that he had gone on hunger strike. In a letter entitled "Lettre d'une prison du Tchad" ("Letter from a Chadian prison"), the opponent denounced the "unjust and illegal" arrest, and justified his decision by his desire to "liberate the energies of a people trapped in inequality". His legal team continues to denounce the many irregularities in the judicial process. Meanwhile, after more than eight months in detention, Robert Gam, Secretary General of the Parti Socialiste Sans Frontières (PSF) - of the late opponent Yaya Dillo - has been released.