The World - News from Feb. 23, 1986

The government of Chad reported that it captured about 1,000 prisoners in last week’s fighting with Libyan-backed rebels. Ten prisoners shown to reporters in N’Djamena, the capital, said they were Chadians who had been forced to fight on the rebel side. One said, “Those who refused to fight were shot by the Libyans.” The government described last week’s flare-up in the civil war, fought sporadically for 20 years, as a Libyan attack, but prisoners said Chadians were doing most of the actual fighting.