Ahmed Hassan Musa was a Chad

Chad

Chad , officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west...

ian insurgent who participated to the first phase of the Chadian Civil War

Civil war in Chad (1965–1979)

The First Chadian Civil War started in 1965/66, with riots and insurgency against Chadian president François Tombalbaye's rule, known for its authoritarianism and distrust of democracy.-Precedents:...

. An islam

Islam

Islam . The most common are and .   : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...

ic fundamentalist close to the Muslim Brotherhood

Muslim Brotherhood

The Society of the Muslim Brothers is the world's oldest and one of the largest Islamist parties, and is the largest political opposition organization in many Arab states. It was founded in 1928 in Egypt by the Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna and by the late 1940s had an...

, he was head of the General Union of the Children of Chad (Union Générale des Fils du Tchad or UGFT), an islamic political party formed by Chadian exiles in Sudan. Because of the authoritarian and anti-Muslim policies of the President

Heads of state of Chad

-List of Heads of State of Chad:-Affiliations:-External links:**...

 François Tombalbaye, he lived in exile in Sudan

Sudan

Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...

 when the explosion of bloody riots in the Guéra

Guéra Prefecture

This article refers to one of the former prefectures of Chad. From 2002 the country was divided into 18 regions.Guéra was one of the 14 prefectures of Chad. Its capital was Mongo...

 Prefecture

Prefectures of Chad

Chad was divided into 14 prefectures from 1960, the year of independence, to 1999, when the country was divided in 28 departments:A further reorganisation in 2002 divided the country into the current 18 regions.NB : Alphabetic order...

 in 1965 opened him new chances. For this reason he formed in his country of exile on September 7, 1965 the Liberation Front of Chad

Liberation Front of Chad

The Liberation Front of Chad was an insurgent group active between 1965 and 1976 during the first phase of the Chadian Civil War....

, the first insurgent group formed against Tombalbaye. A small group, at the Congress of Nyala

Nyala, Sudan

Nyala is the capital of South Darfur state in the western part of the Sudan. Nyala is located at elevation 2,208 feet in the Darfur historical region.- History :...

 Musa and his FLT united itself in 1966 with the Chadian National Union

Chadian National Union

The Chadian National Union was a radical Muslim political party founded in 1958 in Chad by Issa Dana, Mahamut Outman and Abba Siddick. Created to lobby the NO-vote to the referendum on Chad's entry in the French Community, the party advocated drastic political reforms, to be achieved if necessary...

 (UNT) of Ibrahim Abatcha

Ibrahim Abatcha

Ibrahim Abatcha was a Muslim Chadian politician reputed of Marxist leanings and associations. His political activity started during the decolonization process of Chad from France, but after the country's independence he was forced to go in exile due to the increasing authoritarism of the country's...

 to form the powerful National Liberation Front of Chad

FROLINAT

-Origins:The organization was born as the result of a political union between the leftist Chadian National Union , led by Ibrahim Abatcha, and the General Union of the Children of Chad which was led by Ahmed Hassan Musa. Musa was close to the Muslim Brotherhood and was an Islamist...

 (FROLINAT). Musa early resumed his authonomy and with his the wing of the FLT operated on the Chad-Sudan border. When Tombalbaye fell in the 1975 coup

Chadian coup of 1975

The Chadian coup of 1975 was in considerable part generated by the growing distrust of the President of Chad, François Tombalbaye, for the army. This distrust came in part from the Chadian Armed Forces incapacity to deal with the rebellion that was inflaming the Muslim north from when the rebel...

, Musa readily came to terms with the new government. Four years later, in 1979, he was killed at Ati

Ati, Chad

Ati is a city in Chad, the capital of the region of Batha. It lies 278 miles by road east of the capital N'Djamena. The town is served by Ati Airport....

 by Hissène Habré

Hissène Habré

Hissène Habré , also spelled Hissen Habré, was the leader of Chad from 1982 until he was deposed in 1990.-Early life:...

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External links

• Histoire du Tchad (in French)