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...Starting in 1965 and later with the support of the French Foreign Legion, Tombalbaye fought a guerrilla war against the Moslem rebels from his country's northern and eastern desert regions. The Moslems, who constitute 52% of the population, resented the political dominance that Tombalbaye gave to the Bantu tribesmen of Chad's tropical south...
Mock Burial. More recently, Tom-balbaye's opposition has come from fellow Bantu military officers and members of his own party as well. In 1973 General Felix Malloum, then commander in chief of the army, was arrested for allegedly conspiring to overthrow Tombalbaye. Early this year Mrs. Kaltouma Guembang, former head of the Progressive Party's women's wing, was tried for attempting to kill the President by witchcraft. She allegedly hired wizards to pierce the eyes of a black sheep-symbolizing Tombalbaye-and bury it alive. The movement to oust Tombalbaye gained momentum last summer when...
Inmates, through their duly constituted and prison-authority-recognized reform organizations, NPRA and BANTU, have been petitioning for the improvement of the visitation transportation situation as well as many other conditions since September 1972 when the two organizations were chartered...
...Black American Nation Towards Unity (BANTU), whose function was briefly discussed by Arnold Coles, a former inmate, has been unable to persuade the prison administration to adopt certain proposals it has offered for the improvement of prison conditions...
...example, one of the goals of BANTU is the provision for transportation of relatives of inmates on visitation days who, because of financial inability, would otherwise be unable to visit those inmates close to them. This proposal has not been implemented at Walpole Prison, according to Dorothy Dennis, a member of the Committee...