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Annex II: Glossary of Acronyms

ATPDH: Association Tchadienne pour la Promotion et la Défense des Droits de l’Homme (Chadian Association for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights)

AVCRP: Association Tchadienne des Victimes de Crimes et Répression Politiques (Chadian Association of Victims of Political Repression and Crimes)

AVRE: Association pour les Victimes de la Répression en Exil (Association for the Victims of Repression in Exile)

BSIR: Brigade Spéciale d’Intervention Rapide (Special Rapid Action Brigade); the armed division of the DDS

CODOS: short for “commandos”; armed, anti-Habré opposition groups that fought in southern Chad.

DDS: Direction de la Documentation et de la Sécurité (Documentation and Security Directorate)

FAN: Habré’s Armed Forces of the North; eventually became the regular army, FANT

FANT: National Armed Forces of Chad [see “FAN” above]

FIDH: Fédération Internationale des Ligues de Droits de l’Homme (International Federation of Human Rights Leagues)

GUNT: Gouvernment d’Union Nationale de Transition (Transitional Government of National Unity