In Djibouti, the FRUD-armé rebel movement offered the government a prisoner exchange for the six Djiboutian army soldiers captured in the deadly attack on Garabtissan in the north of the country in early October. A proposal that will remain unanswered by the government, dryly replies a source close to the latter, who refers the question to Ethiopian mediation.
Sitting in the shade of a tree or in a shelter of dry stones, the Djiboutian soldiers prisoners were filmed by those who hold them in the maquis. Facing the camera, in civilian clothes in these ” proof of life » uploaded by the FRUD-armed, they claim to be treated well. Their real fate, however, is unverifiable from independent sources.
On November 17, the rebel movement proposed to the Djiboutian government to exchange all six of them. for humanitarian reasons “. But this liberation is conditional on the liberation ” prior and unconditional ” of the ” people arrested ” after Garabtissan’s attackas well as other detainees described as “ political prisoners “.
” An unfortunate belly dance »
A proposal that remained unanswered. What the president of the Djiboutian opposition party refusing armed violence, the RADDE, denounced: on Sunday November 27, the latter, Abdourahman Mohamed Guelleh, known as “TX”, called on the FRUD-armé and the government to release their detainees respective.
But this demand, denounced the spokesman for the presidential majority, Houmed Daoud, is only ” an unfortunate belly dance in front of what he called ” criminal and terrorist acts of the FRUD-armé “. The government ” won’t negotiate anything “, he insisted. He clarified that Djibouti was only awaiting the results of “ approach “launched for the release of the soldiers prisoners” by the Ethiopian Federal Government “.