Word: chadian
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...highly touted months in office owed most of their glow to his deft performance on the world stage - a shine that dimmed during the following three months spent largely at home. But by flying to Africa to personally bring home seven Europeans involved in the child kidnapping case that Chadian authorities have lodged against French charity group Zoe's Ark, Sarkozy may be on the receiving end of tough questions being asked at home about his real motivations...
...Sarkozy flew down to the Chadian capital of N'Djamena on Sunday to finalize the release and return of three French journalists and four Spanish crew members of a jet Zoe's Ark had chartered to airlift 103 children it claimed were orphans from Darfur. Chadian police in the eastern city of Abéché moved in to stop the plane from departing on Oct. 25, amid charges the group was planning to sell the children to adopting parents in France. Since then, police and U.N. agency investigations have discovered most if not all the 103 children...
...also pointed to a report in Friday's Le Parisien paper, citing a copy of the mission statement Zoe's Ark provided to Chadian authorities, which clearly limited its action to providing aid to refugees in local camps. "It says nothing about repatriation of children, which is what Children's Rescue stated as its goal from the outset...
...Rescue officials in France have acknowledged the Oct. 25 operation to remove the children from Chad lacked required authorization, but say the urgency of getting the children care made rule-breaking expediency necessary. Zoe's Ark's French lawyer, meanwhile, has suggested there is a political motive driving Chadian leaders who initially denounced the NGO as a "pedophile" group using humanitarian cover for "child trafficking." Chad, the lawyer notes, has objected to a French-led deployment of European Union peacekeeping forces in eastern Chad to protect Darfur refugees, and could be exploiting the Zoe's Ark case to whip...
...that alarming areas in Children's Rescue literature on its intentions led France's Foreign Affairs Ministry to issue numerous warnings about unethical activity. "The initial description of the operation spoke of the 'adoption' of not 103, but 10,000 Darfur orphans - adoption that's not only illegal under Chadian law, but would also be in violation of French law regulating adoption," the diplomat said...