- Timane Erdimi
Timane Erdimi is the leader of the
Chad ian rebel group Rally of Democratic Forces ("Rassemblement des Forces pour le Changement", RFC) which had 800 soldiers in early 2008. [ [http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/MUMA-7C62ML?OpenDocument Sudan issue brief no. 9: Echo effects - Chadian instability and the Darfur conflict] , "Small Arms Survey", 25 February 2008] He is a member of the ethnic groupZaghawa and nephew of the Chadian PresidentIdriss Déby .Seibert HB (November 2007) [http://web.mit.edu/ssp/Publications/working_papers/WP_07-1.pdf MIT Security Studies Program Working Paper] ]An international arrest warrant was issued by Chad for Erdimi in 2007. He was among 12 people sentenced to death "in absentia" by a Chadian court on
August 15 . Responding to this sentence, Erdimi said that he had been unaware of the trial and remarked that it was his opponents in the government who "should be put on trial". [ [http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/15/africa/chad.php "Chad sentences former president to death"] , Reuters ("International Herald Tribune"), August 15, 2008.]References
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