Chad: thousands left homeless by forced evictions
Human Rights Watch publicou onte unha nota de prensa sobre Chad, onde tiveron lugar o desaloxo forzado de miles de persoas e a demolición das súas casas durante o estado de emerxencia que seguiu ó fracasado golpe de Estado.
A nota de prensa leva por título “Chad: Thousands Left Homeless by Forced Evictions. Government Demolished Homes Without Compensation, Due Process”. Copio un extracto do seu contido:
Chadian authorities forcibly evicted several thousand residents from their homes in N’Djamena, the capital, during a 30-day period in February and March 2008, Human Rights Watch said today. The seizures came during a state of emergency declared by the government on February 15 following a failed coup attempt.
“People who lived in the capital for decades have been left homeless and destitute, with little legal recourse,” said Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “In many cases, the Chadian government failed to provide adequate notification, compensation and resettlement assistance to affected communities, as required by international law.”
According to documents from the office of the mayor of N’Djamena obtained by Human Rights Watch, municipal authorities destroyed 1,798 homes in 11 neighborhoods in the capital during the 30-day state of emergency that ended on March 15. Human Rights Watch saw hundreds of demolished structures in two neighborhoods in the capital that were not included in the official figures, making it likely that the total number of homes destroyed exceeds 2,000. Human Rights Watch estimates that more than 10,000 people have been left homeless by the mass evictions. Many of those Chadians who fled N’Djamena following the February coup attempt returned to find that their homes had been destroyed. [...]
