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Viewing cable 07NDJAMENA324, CODEL McGovern Visits IDPs Fleeing Attacks

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07NDJAMENA324 2007-04-12 15:02 2011-08-24 16:30 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Ndjamena
VZCZCXRO2891
RR RUEHGI RUEHMA RUEHROV
DE RUEHNJ #0324 1021502
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 121502Z APR 07
FM AMEMBASSY NDJAMENA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 5145
RUEHRN/USMISSION UN ROME 0023
INFO RUCNFUR/DARFUR COLLECTIVE
UNCLAS NDJAMENA 000324 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS,SENSITIVE 
 
KHARTOUM FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY 
STATE FOR AF/C MASHRAF, PRM/AF MLANG, AND S/CRS FOR 
PNELSON-DOUVELIS/JVANCE/JBEIK 
 
E.O. 12958:  N/A 
TAGS: PREF PGOV PHUM KCRS CD SU OTRA OVIP
SUBJECT:  CODEL McGovern Visits IDPs Fleeing Attacks 
 
1.  (U) SUMMARY.  Rep. James McGovern and staffers, along with the 
Ambassador and Emboffs, witnessed the grave humanitarian crisis 
unfolding near Koukou Angarana in eastern Chad on 7 April.  An 
estimated 9,000 people have fled west towards the area after attacks 
on the villages of Tiero and Marena starting over the weekend of 
March 31-April 1.  Humanitarian workers were on the scene providing 
the first emergency response.  Chadian Internally Displaced Persons 
(IDPs) recounted similar stories of attacks by janjaweed militias, 
villages burned, and family members killed.  END SUMMARY. 
 
2.   (U) CODEL McGovern, along with the Ambassador and Emboffs, 
visited Koukou Angarana in eastern Chad on 7 April, after visiting 
Abeche and the Gaga refugee camp the previous day (septel).  The 
CODEL was accompanied by UNHCR Abeche Office Director Catherine 
Huck, who remained behind to work on the IDP emergency after the 
CODEL's departure.  The delegation also visited the Goz Amer refugee 
camp, several IDP sites, and a village burned in December by 
janjaweed militias. 
 
3.  (U)  An estimated 9,000 IDP's had poured in during the previous 
few days.  Trucks were still pulling in during the visit filled with 
refugees found hiding out in the countryside.  Hundreds were 
receiving vaccinations, foodstuffs, and non-food items (NFIs) by 
UNHCR and NGOs.  Others were seated on mats or milling about looking 
for empty spots to set up shelters for their families. 
 
3.  (U) The stories told by the IDPs, as well as by humanitarian 
workers assisting them, were consistent.  Over the weekend of March 
31-April 1, the villages of Tiero and Mareno were attacked in three 
waves.  The first came from militias riding in on horses and camels 
and using small arms.  The villagers fired back in self-defense, but 
were overwhelmed by subsequent waves of attackers carrying heavy 
weapons.  Most IDPs blamed janjaweed militias for launching the 
first attack and Chadian Arabs for joining in subsequent ones.  The 
goal of the attackers, they claimed, was to drive them off their 
land.  Some IDPs said they recognized the attackers as their Chadian 
neighbors. 
 
4.  (U) The death toll appeared to be significantly greater than the 
65 deaths mentioned in initial estimates.  An ICRC official said 
that, based on his visit to the villages to evacuate wounded, he 
estimated the death toll would be 200-400 people.  Another NGO 
interlocutor estimated it would be four times the official count 
(i.e., about 260).  Bodies were still being found in the bush.  Due 
to the heat and rapid decomposition, many had been hastily buried. 
An ICRC official described Tiero as virtually completely destroyed, 
and Marena as about 20 percent destroyed. 
 
5.  (U) The UN and NGO workers thought that the attacks had 
generated about 9,000 IDPs.  However, there was disagreement over 
how many were new IDPs and how many were secondary IDPs (i.e., 
people who were already IDPs, but felt that they had to flee again 
to a safer location).  This influx of IDPs is in addition to the 
20,000 already in the nearby settlement of Habile and the 19,000 
refugees in the Goz Amer camp on the other side of Koukou Angarana. 
WFP representatives claimed they had sufficient stocks to feed all 
the IDPs in the area (a change from what they reported last month, 
before this new flux of IDPs). 
 
6.  (SBU) UN and NGO officials complained that they could not assist 
the victims as quickly as they wanted because of the slow response 
by the Chadian National Army (ANT).  The ANT allegedly did not go to 
the towns for an entire day after the attacks because they did not 
have sufficient gasoline to drive there.  Some believed the IDPs 
should remain in the Koukou Angarana area, not move further west to 
Goz Beida, where there is less water and arable land. 
 
Comment 
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7.  (SBU) This is a dire humanitarian emergency that requires a 
massive and rapid response.  Unless steps are taken to protect 
civilian populations in the area, if not by the Chadian army, then 
by a UN border force, the violence against them that caused it could 
happen again. 
 
8.  (U) Tripoli minimize considered.  WALL