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Ghadafi's four-year-long try
to conquer Chad crumbles
Stories tell of desolation across countryside
FAYA LARGEAU, Chad (AP)
— A wrecked loudspeaker van, a
larger-than-lifesize photo of Li
bya’s Moammar Ghadafi pasted
on one window, stands with all its
wheels removed in the yard of a
disused school building.
The scene seems to symbolize
Gadhafi’s four-year-long attempt
to impose a form of Libyan colo
nialism in neighboring Chad. His
efforts in Faya Largeau collapsed
in disgrace last month when
highly mobile Chad forces
handed the Libyan army its most
crushing defeat, chasing it from
most of the 500,000-square-mile
northern Chadian desert.
Faya Largeau, 600 miles north
east of the capital, N’Djamena, is
Chad’s largest oasis. The homes
of rich merchants and camel trad
ers are still visible in walled gar
dens, amid palm trees and ole
ander bushes. But most are in
ruins, looted of everything, even
window panes and light switches.
All but 3,000 of Faya Largeau’s
25,000 inhabitants fled from the
Libyan occupation. Two weeks
after the Libyan defeat, they be
gan trickling back in trucks carry
ing relief supplies. Women wept
when they saw their wrecked
homes.
Those who stayed behind tell
of a ruthless regime that tried to
Libyanize them against their will
with the help of local collabora
tors.
In the once-thriving market,
many stalls remain deserted.
Women squat on the ground sell
ing dates and vegetables. A hand
ful of fresh tomatoes costs three
Libyan dinars ($4).
In August 1986, all trade in
consumer goods stopped when
former rebel leader Goukouni
Oueddei defected from the Li
byan side. The Libyans had con
sidered Goukouni a trusted ally
and had left it to his guerrillas to
protect Libya’s supply routes
through the Tibesti mountains.
A month later, three leaders of
the Goukouni faction were ar
rested, driven out of town and
summarily executed, Doumi said.
The Libyans suspected them of
planning to join Goukouni, he
said.
“Fifteen minutes after the ar
rested men left town, we heard
three bursts of machine-gun fire,
and no one ever saw them again,”
Doumi recalled.
Doumi said that Adoum Aba-
kar, a pro-Libyan political leader,
suffered the same fate last Jan
uary and that barely two weeks
before their collapse, the Libyans
summarily executed Oumar
Moussa Bokori, chief of Goukou-
ni’s military police.
Habre’s local military com
mander, Gaille Emchi, said “the
only Chadians on the Libyan side
were there under duress, and vir
tually all of them have now rallied
to the government. I don’t know
about any being shot.”
Habre apparently has no wish
for those who once opposed him
to be martyrs. Furthermore, a mi
nority of Chadians led by Ach-
eikh Ibn Omar continues to fight
for Gadhafi’s colonized version of
Chad.
Emchi said Libyan troops in
Faya Largeau sneaked out with
out firing a shot the night of
March 27. “After we overran
their main base in Ouadi Doum,
100 miles to the east, they became
completely demoralized and fled
in panic,” he said.
Eleven Libyan tanks in brand-
new condition, Czechoslovak-
made T-55s, stand in line on the
edge of the oasis. Their Libyan
crews apparently jumped into
faster vehicles and fled.
Pope draws criticism in Argentic
for not denouncing government
ROME (AP) — Pope John Paul 11
denounced human rights abuses in
Chile, but he disappointed those
who hoped for the same in Argen
tina, where the church has been crit
icized for not condemning torture
and killing under past military rule.
During the two-week tour ending
Monday, the pope spoke firmly
against the conduct of Chile’s right-
wing government.
In neighboring Argentina, which
is adjusting to a 3-year-old democ
racy and struggling with economic
crisis, John Paul provoked criticism
for not saying more about the mili
tary juntas that governed for nearly
nine years and had a close
relationship with the Argentine
church.
“I believe there were serious defi
ciencies . . . because Pope John Paul
II did not make contact with the hu
man rights organizations,” said
Adolfo Perez Esquivel, an Argenti
nian who won the 1980 Nobel Peace
Prize.
He said local Roman Catholic
leaders “organized a beautiful tour
ist trip but not a pastoral visit.”
After arriving in Rome on Mon
day, the pontiff said of Argentina,
“You don’t see the tension that you
saw in Chile.”
Chilean church officials keep me
ticulous records of presumed kid
nappings, allegations of torture and
harassment of labor activists, priests.
nuns, lawyers, social workers and
others who have denounced the 13-
year-old military government of
President Augusto Pinochet.
The church in Argentina has the
reputation of doing little during the
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