CASAMANCE: CONFUSION AROUND THE REMOVAL OF 12 CLEARANCE

Attika talking about South African military, the media elements of a South African company

A total confusion on the nationality of the 12 miners stopped by last Friday in the area of ​​Kaylou (Nyassia) by supposed to belong to the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) elements. Attika (the armed wing of the Casamance rebellion) claims in its German-based site arrest of 12 South African military, while in Senegal reports indicate the kidnapping of 12 elements (local agents trained place demining) a South African mining company.

Some Senegalese sites cite correspondents based in Ziguinchor different national editors, it is twelve miners, including three women, all elements of a South African company specializing in demining. The correspondent of the TFM (Senegalese private television) in the area, according to the website of Senegalese Pressafrik information, does not provide further details on the nationality of the abductees. It simply explains that this has happened since Friday in the area Kaylou, rural community Nyassia department Ziguinchor since the army is on the trail of the perpetrators of the kidnapping, the supposed elements belonging to the MFDC. Citing sources, the correspondent of the Tfm says abducted persons are brought to Kassalol, based warlord Caesar Atoute Badiate whose camp recently said that the miners have reached the red line and do not have the right to intervene on their base.By the site against the MFDC based in Germany we traveled, the local correspondent of the MFDC speaks of "twelve South African military soldiers, including three women, all intelligence specialists have been arrested since Friday, May 3, 2013, near Kaylou (Nyassia) in a controlled area Attika, the fighting forces of the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC). "According to information received at the local office of the Journal of the MFDC, the South African military armed, covered by the mining firm Mechem were on a reconnaissance mission to help the Senegalese army in its fight against Attika."After the Moroccan forces from 2006 to 2010, the South Africans are seen here as mercenaries and mining is used each time as a means of subterfuge" says Alphonse Toupane member of the MFDC.According to the newspaper the MFDC, sources point out that the South African military, including recommended by the National Mine Action Centre in Senegal (CNAMS) crossed minefields toward a cantonment of combatants. They had military action plans, recording devices and photography.Yet there are just two months, the MFDC has served on CNAMS, Geneva Call and APRAN: "The mine is within the framework of the peace negotiations. The red zone is reached and that beyond any security clearance will be guaranteed. "Attika increased to act according to the newspaper MFDC. Announcing that the political wing of the MFDC is back in contact with the bush to find a happy solution to this crisis.