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National Liberation Front of Chad
جبهة التحرير الوطنية تشاد
Flag of the National Liberation Front of Chad[1]
Leaders
Ibrahim Abatcha † Abba Siddick Hissène Habré Goukouni Oueddei
Dates of operation
19 June 1966 – 14 January 1993
Headquarters
Tripoli
Active regions
Chad Libya
Ideology
Marxism (until 1968) Islamic socialism Socialism Direct democracy Nationalism Anti-Zionism[2]
Slogan
"Chad for the Chadians"[3]
Size
500–3,000
Allies
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya North Korea
Opponents
Chad
FROLINAT (French: Front de libération nationale du Tchad; English: National Liberation Front of Chad) was an insurgent rebel group active in Chad between 1966 and 1993.
^"Comunicados militares do Frolinat". Associação Tchiweka de Documentação (in Portuguese). 13 June 1973. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
^Collins, Robert O. Africa's Thirty Years War: Libya, Chad, and the Sudan, 1963–1993, p. 40.: Westview Press, 1999.
^Collins, Robert O. Africa's Thirty Years War: Libya, Chad, and the Sudan, 1963–1993, p. 40.: Westview Press, 1999.
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