The World - News from March 28, 1988

The government of Chad charged that 17 of its citizens living in Libya have been killed by government forces and that hundreds of others have been placed in prison camps, state-run radio reported. Oumar Brahim, a Chad citizen who recently returned to the capital of N’Djamena from Libya, was quoted as saying the persecution was apparently in retaliation for a series of military defeats that Libyan forces have suffered in northern Chad. Meanwhile, Chadian President Hissen Habre urged the Sudanese government to act against what he called the danger of a growing Libyan presence in the Sudan.