Koro Toro

Koro Toro is a settlement in the southern Borkou Region of Chad. It hosts the Koro Toro Airport and a "notorious" ^[1] maximum security desert prison ^[2] used by the Chadian government to detain captured fighters of Boko Haram ^[3] and Chadian rebel groups. ^[1] According to the Chadian opposition, Koro Toro is factually a penal colony. ^[2]

It is also known as anthropological and archaeological site, as the fossil hominin Australopithecus bahrelghazali was discovered at Koro Toro in January 1995. ^[4]

See also

• Yaho (archeological site)

References

1. Andrew McGregor (12 November 2018). "War in the Tibesti Mountains – Libyan-Based Rebels Return to Chad". Aberfoyle International Security. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
2. Debos 2016, p. 110.
3. "CHAD 2017 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT" (PDF). United States Department of State. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 April 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
4. Gräslund, Bo (2005). "Traces of the early humans". Early Humans and Their World . Routledge. pp.  54. ISBN   0-415-35344-0.

Works cited

• Debos, Marielle (2016) [1st pub. 2013]. Living by the Gun in Chad. Combatants, Impunity and State Formation. Translated by Andrew Brown (Revised, Updated, and Translated ed.). London: Zed Books. ISBN   978-1-78360-532-3.

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