21/07/02 : L’AFP international se fait l’écho des véritables causes de la mort du Général Yacin Yabeh, à savoir le refus d’opérer une dialyse ..(Anglais)

Note
de l’ARDHD. Cette
dépêche
de l’AFP n’est ‘sortie’,
à notre connaissance,
qu’en langue anglaise
… Curieux ? Probablement
pas, parce que nous
savons que le représentant
djiboutien de l’AFP,
est simultanément
un fonctionnaire de
Guelleh. Donc pas
de risques pour que
des dépêches
fortement préjudiciables
à Guelleh soient
rédigées
à partir de
la délégation
AFP de Djibouti

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Dead Djibouti former
police chief not given
dialysis.

DJIBOUTI,
July 19 (AFP). Djibouti’s
former police chief,
who died in hospital
had not been treated
for kidney problems,
the attorney general
said Saturday, contradicting
an announcement by
his family saying
he was receiving dialysis.

Attorney
General Ali Mohamed
Abdou’s statement
contradicted General
Yacin Yabeh Galab’s
relatives, who earlier
saud he had been under
treatment because
of kidney problems
at Djibouti’s main
clinic, the Peltier
Hospital.

The
general, who was sentenced
last month to 15 years
in prison for rebellion,
died on Thursday.

Since
his sentencing on
June 17, he was under
house arrest and thus
unable to go abroad
for dialysis as he
had done several times
previously, his family
said.

Yacin
Yabeh was the principal
accused in a trial
of a dozen officers
implicated in a December
2000 mutiny.

The
attorney general said
his health had been
regularly monitored
by doctors at the
hospital, where a
bulletin on July 13
described the state
of his kidneys as
"stable".

The
death certificate
stated that he had
died of a heart stoppage
following lung and
renal complications.

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