Sagt mal Ihr Mod's und Admin's, macht Ihr hier jetzt einen Wettbewerb: Wer findet die meisten Presseverlautbarungen zum gleichen Thema?
Ich finde die Hinweise zu Ereignissen ja generell wichtig! Wenn sich das aber plötzlich unkommentiert ständig wiederholt, dann gibt das für den Leser den Eindruck, als hätte die (ohnehin sehr kritische) Situation, mit den interessengelenkten Darstellungen der beteiligten Parteien, bereits den Bürgerkrieg zum Thema.
Besonders aus der Ferne, kann man, muß man (!) (Kenntnis des Landes vorausgesetzt) ein wenig zwischen den Zeilen lesen. Eine sehr gute Gelegenheit bietet dazu der von Ursula reingestellte Link!
IRIN hat geschrieben:
NIGER: ICRC sends teams after armed group attacks army base
NIAMEY, 25 June 2007 (IRIN) - Following an attack by Touareg rebels on an army base near Niger's northern city of Agadez on 22 June, the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) has sent two teams, one to provide emergency medical services to the wounded and the other to act as an intermediary.
The rebels claimed they killed 15 government soldiers, wounded 43 and took 72 others prisoner.
"We will not act as negotiators" said ICRC spokeswoman Anna Schaaf, responding to a question from IRIN on whether the delegation would try to help secure the release of the soldiers.
"The two sides have asked us to assist on the basis that we would remain strictly neutral," she said. "All we will do is 'transmit' [between the government and the rebels], whether that means transmit information or transmit people."
The rebel Nigerien Movement for Justice (MNJ) accuses the government of neglect and discrimination against the Touareg people. Agali Alambo, an MNJ leader, said the latest attack and a previous one on the airport in Agadez on 17 June were carried out in retaliation for the alleged killing of three elderly Touareg civilians by Nigerien soldiers.
Meanwhile the government continues to deny the existence of the rebels, calling the group armed bandits. Niger's Conseiller Superior de la Communication, an independent regulatory body for the media, summoned journalists to a meeting on Sunday to warn them against focusing on the attacks and thus encouraging further action by the MNJ.
The government and parliamentarians issued separate statements on the attacks, neither recognizing the movement as a rebellion. The government has not responded to IRIN's request for further information on whether it plans to acknowledge the group.
During an even bloodier Touareg rebellion in the 1990's, the Nigerien government also had a policy of denying the group's status as a rebel group. Baz Lecocq, an expert on Niger at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin Germany, told IRIN, "That continued up until to the point of negotiations. Even after negotiations the government mixed things up, acknowledging the legitimacy of the Touareg claims while calling their armed actions banditry."
At the time many among the rebels were calling for secession which, for the government, was unacceptable, Lecocq said. "The government was prepared to recognize the movement only once it reduced its demands to being treated more equitably within the state."
Peace agreements to end the conflict were signed in April 1995, supposedly ending the conflict.
The MNJ has not renewed demands for an independent state, according to information on its Web site, but rather the new attacks are a result of the government's failure to uphold the tenets of the 1995 agreement.
Lecocq said that the Nigerien government's strategy to call the new group bandits may be an automatic reaction. "They may simply be returning to their previous strategy because they can't think of anything better to do," he said.
For the ICRC, whether or not the government recognizes the rebels is immaterial. "Our mandate is strictly humanitarian," Schaaf said. Emergency relief groups in the area say they are monitoring events closely but have no plans yet to withdraw.
The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Those who walk alone are likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before.
...Le communique du gouvernement précise que les forces armées nigériennes, ont dans la poursuite engagée, saisi 140 mines anti- personnel et anti-char ainsi qu’une rampe de lancement de missiles...
babelfish plus ...die Mitteilung von der Regierung präzisiert, dass die nigrischen Streitkräfte in der engagierten Verfolgung haben erfaßt 140 Antipersonen- und Panzer-Minen sowie eine Rampe der Raketeneinführung...
Niger: Uran-Abbau schürt Konflikt in Nordwestafrika
Tuareg-Revolte droht zu eskalieren
(GfbV). Die Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (GfbV) hat am Mittwoch vor einer Ausweitung der Tuareg-Revolte in dem nordwestafrikanischen Staat Niger gewarnt. Zwölf Jahre nach der Beilegung der letzten Tuareg-Rebellion eskaliere die Gewalt im Norden des Niger erneut. mehr...
Grüsse
Alexander
The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Those who walk alone are likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before.
Niger Sending Troops Toward Rebel Area
1er juillet 2007
...Niger is deploying large numbers of troops, 4,000 one report says, in the north of the country after a spate of attacks by Tuareg rebels, military sources and residents said Saturday.
Residents in Agadez, in the north, said they had seen columns of trucks taking troops and equipment toward Mount Tamgak 250 miles north, the base of the rebels’ organization, the Tuareg Niger Movement for Justice...
babelfish plus: der Niger entsendet eine grosse Anzahl Truppen, 4.000 sagt ein Report, in den Norden des Landes, nach Angriffen durch Tuareg Rebellen , sagten militärische Quellen und Bewohner am Samstag. Bewohner in Agadez, im Norden, sagten, daß sie Kolonnen von LKWs gesehen hatten, die Truppen und Ausrüstung in Richtung Tamgak 250 Meilen Nord, die Basis der Organisation der Tuareg-Niger Bewegung für Gerechtigkeit fahren
AGADEZ, Niger (Thomson Financial) - A site in Aderbissanat belonging to SATOM, a roadbuilding subsidiary of Vinci, has been attacked by armed men, according to the radio station Sahara FM.
The radio reported that the unknown attackers stole two SATOM vehicles.
Aderbissanat lies in the southwest of the Agadez region of Niger, where military posts have regularly been targeted by the Tuareg rebel group MNJ (Mouvement des Nigeriens pour la Justice) since the beginning of the year.
NIAMEY, July 4 (Reuters) - Gunmen in northern Niger have attacked the living quarters of a French roadbuilding company, military officials said on Wednesday, the latest such raid in the mineral heartland on the edge of the Sahara desert.
Around 15 armed men attacked the SATOM-SOGEA compound on Tuesday. Two off-road vehicles were stolen but there were no reports of casualties.
The army officials, who asked not to be named, said the attackers were thought to be from the rebel Niger Movement for Justice (MNJ), which is fighting for greater autonomy for the economically marginalised desert region.
Après 3 attaques successives de rebello/bandits (aéroport d'agadez, base militaire de Tezirzet, base de la Satom à Aderbissinat), enlèvement d'un chinois dans la région d' In Gall (les chinois sont présents au niger dans la recherche pétrolière)
Damien (sein Schwager lebt in Agadez) aus Explo4x4
babelfish pur: Nach 3 aufeinanderfolgenden Angriffen von rebello/Banditen (Flughafen von agadez, Militärbasis von Tezirzet, Basis Satom für Aderbissinat) Beseitigung Chinesisch in der Region von In Gall (die Chinesen sind in Niger in der Ölforschung anwesend)
The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Those who walk alone are likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before.
Niger
Schmutziger Krieg um das Sahara-Uran
09.07.2007 - von Dominic Johnson
In den Wüsten Nigers rebellieren die Tuareg gegen den Ausverkauf von Uran an China. Die Regierung glaubt, dass die Exkolonialmacht Frankreich ihre Hände im Spiel hat ... mehr
China gibt seine Uran-Propektion im Niger auf. Alle Mitarbeiter der Gesellschaft China-U wurden bereits evakuiert, der vom MNJ entführte chinesische Mitarbeiter daraufhin freigelassen.
Gerhard Göttler
p.s.: In den gebabelten Übersetzungen erscheint das französische Wort justice oft als Justiz; fast immer steht es im Original-Text aber im zweiten Sinn, nämlich im Sinn von Gerechtigkeit.
...Three people were badly injured a few days ago when their truck drove over a landmine between Agadez and Iferouane (Anmerkung: bei Gougaram), gateway to the spectacular Air Massif mountains in the heart of rebel territory...
...Checkpoints stop civilians travelling outside the main northern town of Agadez after late afternoon and those who take the road by day do so at their own risk. Foreign journalists are banned from the region...
The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Those who walk alone are likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before.
