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General Mahamat Nouri (born 1947)〔G. Ngansop, ''Tchad, vingt d'ans de crise'', L'Harmattan, (1986), 186, ISBN 2-85802-687-4〕 is a Chadian insurgent leader who currently commands the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD). A Muslim from northern Chad, he began his career as a FROLINAT rebel, and when the group's Second Army split in 1976 he sided with his kinsman Hissène Habré. As Habré's associate he obtained in 1978 the first of the many ministerial positions in his career, becoming Interior Minister in a coalition government. When Habré reached the presidency in 1982, Nouri was by his side and played an important role in the regime. Following Habré's downfall in 1990, Nouri passed his allegiance to his successor, Idriss Déby, under whom he rose once again to great prominence, remaining in the cabinet without interruption from 1995 to 2004. After that he was sent as Chad's ambassador to Saudi Arabia: while in that country he broke with Déby in 2006, joining armed opposition against him. Nouri led the creation, from a plurality of armed movements, the most powerful of the Chadian rebel groups, the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD). He started a series of attacks against government positions in eastern Chad in autumn 2006, causing serious difficulties to Déby. After the ultimate failure of a series of talks held in Libya in 2007, Nouri coalesced with two other rebel groups and launched a direct attack on the Chadian capital in February 2008, but was repelled after days of heavy fighting. ==Nouri and Hissène Habré== An ethnic Daza of the Anakaza subclan like the former President Hissène Habré,〔("They Came Here to Kill Us": Militia Attacks and Ethnic Targeting of Civilians in Eastern Chad ), Human Rights Watch Reports, 19 (1), January 2007, p. 17.〕 Nouri was born in 1947 in Faya-Largeau in northern Chad. Nouri received a formal education and became a postal official.〔C. Boisbouvier, ("Le triumvirat de la rébellion" ), Jeuneafrique.com, 10-2-2008.〕 He successively entered in the ranks of the FROLINAT, the rebel movement that was waging a civil war against the central government. When the Second Army of the FROLINAT divided itself in 1977 among the supporters of Habré and those of Goukouni Oueddei, Nouri sided with Habré and was one of the very few men to be by Habré's side for all the length of the latter's political career.〔R. Buijtenhuijs, ''Le Frolinat et les guerres civiviles du Tchad (1977-1984)'', Karthala, (1987), 348, ISBN 2-86537-196-4〕 As number 2 of Habré's rebel Armed Forces of the North (FAN) with the rank of inspector-general, he was given the leadership of the FAN delegation that negotiated the Khartoum peace accord with the Chadian government in 1978.〔G. Ngansop, ''Tchad'', 185〕 During the coalition government created from this accord between President Félix Malloum and the former rebel leader Habré, now nominated Prime Minister, Nouri held the decisive post of Minister of the Interior, although he was well known for his low opinion of Southern Chadians.〔R. Buijtenhuijs, ''Le Frolinat'', 61〕〔J. Millard Burr & R. Collins, ''Darfur: The Long Road to Disaster'', Markus Wiener Publishers, (2006), 125, ISBN 978-1-55876-405-7〕 After the collapse of the coalition in February 1979, Nouri became Minister of Transport in the first Goukouni government that followed.〔G. Ngansop, ''Tchad'', 198〕〔"Internal security and Political Developments - Mediation by Neighbouring and Other Countries - Libyan Military Involvement - Formation of Transitional Government of National Unity, November 1979", Keesing's Record of World Events, Volume 26, February 1980, p. 30599.〕 When Habré rebelled against Goukouni in 1980, Nouri was once again by his side, and for this he was tried by a special criminal court and on June 13, 1981, sentenced together with Idriss Miskine to hard labour for life, while the leader of the FAN, Habré, was sentenced to death.〔"Military Developments - Resumption of FAN Activities - Clashes between Rival Government Forces - Egyptian Acknowledgment of Aiding FAN - Soviet and East German Denial of Involvement", Keesing's Record of World Events, Volume 27, October 1981, p. 31161.〕 This did not deter Nouri from returning to prominence when Habré conquered the capital N'Djamena in 1982: as Habré's right hand, Nouri became the new regime's number 2. In 1984 he was made Commissioner for External Affairs in the Executive Bureau of the country's only legal party, the National Union for Independence and Revolution (UNIR),〔 and was to eventually obtain the chairmanship of the party.〔 One of Habré's most seasoned and flexible commanders, he participated to the final phase of the Chadian-Libyan conflict as commander of the Chadian forces during the battle of Aouzou in August 1987. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mahamat Nouri」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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