> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:22:03 -0600
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> Subject: [G_L] Fwd: Senegal army to pursue rebels into Gambia
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> Senegal army to pursue rebels into Gambia
>
> An infuriated Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has ordered the
> country’s armed forces to pursue the fleeing Casamance separatist
> rebels “everywhere even inside Gambia”.
>
> The order comes in the aftermath of a deadly attack on Tuesday by
> separatist rebels that killed about ten soldiers in the troubled
> southern Casamance region.
>
> “They could be hiding in the forests and across the border to the
> Gambia, but pursue them wherever they may be found and let them face
> the law”, President Wade told the army leadership in Dakar.
>
> If only temporarily, the incident shifted public attention away from
> months of political polarisation as the president gears to contest for
> a controversial third mandate which the opposition are insisting is
> unconstitutional.
>
> President Wade’s order is certain to heighten the already tense
> relations with neighbouring Gambia, which the Senegalese government
> suspects of aiding the Casamance separatists.
>
> Last year, Senegal broke diplomatic relations with Iran over an arms
> shipment Dakar claimed was intended for the rebels. The shipment was
> confiscated in Nigeria.
>
> Military wing
>
> Like many other Senegalese, President Wade is of the firm conviction
> that the rebel Movement des Forces Democratique de Casamance (or Mfdc)
> which is fighting for the region’s independence is backed by Gambia
> and Guinea Bissau.
>
> But since the assassination of the pro-Mfdc Gen Ansoumana Mané of
> Guinea Bissau in the late Nineties, Senegal’s suspicion has
> increasingly been fixated on the Gambia.
>
> --
> -Laye
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