French Hypocrites Open Fire On Civilians

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Unbelievable. I wonder if this will share the front page of French newspapers alongside all the stories bashing Bush and the Iraqi "occupation".

America’s Second Front – In Africa

Nov. 11 - France has attacked the Ivory Coast once more and, again, is seeking UN blessing for its aggression and barbarism. Under the rubric of ‘peacekeeping’ the French have been supporting the rebels, known as the “New Forces”. These rebels take defensive positions which abut French peacekeeper’s lines and fire over their heads at the FANCI (Ivory Coast Army) soldiers. The French continue to protect these rebels, arm them, feed them, transport them and offer them tactical communication facilities. The notion of ‘peacekeeping’ is a total farce and a travesty.

The French are determined to oust the democratically-elected President of the Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo. After years of struggle against a country ruled by ‘Black Frenchmen’ with a French advisor in every civil service post, the FPI (Gbagbo’s party) managed a democratic victory at the polls. Since then, the French have been trying to oust Gbagbo and put in another Black Frenchmen whom they shelter in Paris awaiting the great day.

The current debacle has its roots in the post-election period in September 2002, when Gbagbo was on a state visit to Rome. The military dictator Guei was recently defeated in the ballot box and the new Ivoirien government was busy untying the stranglehold of French corporations over the nation’s economy. The team of the President and his two Ministers represented a powerful force for change in the Ivory Coast and had substantial support from the Ivory Coast population. Change and reform in the Ivory Coast meant a struggle to relax the control by the French over banking, insurance, transport, cocoa trading and energy policies. The Gbagbo government had demonstrated, during its short term in power, a spirit of nationalism which had mobilised the population. It was also threatening the French hold over the Ivory Coast economy by inviting in companies from other countries to tender for Government projects.

On the Wednesday, in September 2002, when the rebellion began, there were about 650 rebels holed up in Bouake. These were Guei appointees who had been purged from the Army. They had little equipment and ammunition, as they had expected a conflict of no more than five days. President Gbagbo was in Rome, meeting the Pope and the rebels felt sure that the coup could take place quickly with the President out of the country.

As the coup began in the second largest town, Bouake, the loyalist troops (FANCI) under Lida Kouassi responded. They were able to surround the rebels, trapping them in the city, and killing about 320 of them. They were positioned for a final onslaught on the remaining 300 rebels but were suddenly stopped by the French commander of the body of French troops stationed in the Ivory Coast. He demanded a delay of 48 hours to evacuate the French nationals and some US personnel in the town. The FANCI demanded to be allowed to attack Bouake to put down the rebels but the French insisted on the delay. As soon as there was a delay, the French dropped parachutists into Bouake who took up positions alongside the rebels. This made it impossible for the FANCI to attack without killing a lot of Frenchmen at the same time. U.S. Special Forces from Ghana went in and out in twelve hours rescuing some American students trapped there.

During those 48 hours the French military command chartered three Antonov-12 aircraft which were picked up in Franceville in Gabon. These Ukrainian-registered aircraft were filled with military supplies stocked by the French in Central Africa. Two of the planes started their journey in Durban where Ukrainian equipment and military personnel were loaded on board. The chartered planes flew to Nimba County, Liberia (on the Ivory Coast border) and then on to the rebel areas in Ivory Coast (Bouake and Korhogo) where they were handed to the rebels. Bus loads of troops were transported from Burkina Faso to Korhogo dressed in civilian clothes where they were equipped with the military supplies brought in by the French from Central Africa and the Ukraine.

All of a sudden there were 2,500 fully armed soldiers on the rebel side as mercenaries from Liberia and Sierra Leone were also brought in by the same planes as well. They were equipped with Kalashnikovs and other bloc equipment which was never part of the Ivory Coast arsenal. France supplied sophisticated communications equipment as well. Once the rebels were rearmed and equipped, the French gradually withdrew, leaving operational control to the Eastern European mercenaries who directed the rebels in co-ordination with the French headquarters at Yamoussoukro. The French continued to subvert the loyalist army at every turn and attempted to purge the army of its key officers.

One of the reasons for the French unhappiness with Gbagbo was that he refused to carry on with the traditional French corruption of the Ivory Coast. At the time of the coup, the country was virtually out of fuel. The director of the S.I.R (Société Ivoirienne de Raffinage) had emptied the reserves of the country’s energy coffers. He fled to France with the money where he was offered sanctuary and immunity for his theft from the French. There was no fuel and no money to buy fuel. The representative of Total-Elf visited Gbagbo's office with the French ambassador and said that they had two ships standing by off the Ivory Coast ports which they could offer to Gbagbo. All they wanted in return was the country’s only oil refinery which they would purchase for one symbolic franc. The French would operate the refinery as it wished, using the high-priced oil Total would supply. They brought a bag full of money for Gbagbo. He ordered them out of his office and told them not to forget the bag of money they had left. A similar exchange took place with the cocoa entrepreneurs.

The same was true for the Companie Eléctricité Ivoirienne , the national power company. The contract with the CIE was due for renewal in early 2004 and the French (SAUR) demanded the right to continue to operate the national electricity grid in the way in which they had been operating previously. The Ivory Coast government consumed about 170 billion CFA francs (about 260 ⚬ million) a year. The French would supply overpriced gas to the to the ABB Azito gas power plant as their rent on the power station and grid but would charge everyone else fees for power. These fees were not to be taxed as revenue to the operators but remitted directly to them. There was no value added to the national economy, no amortisation of the debt incurred in building the stations and the grid and with no control over the prices. Gbagbo and his ministers said that this was unreasonable and promised that when the current contract ran out it would be open for international tender. The French were fuming.

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[gmc]

Unbelievable. I wonder if this will share the front page of French newspapers alongside all the stories bashing Bush and the Iraqi "occupation".


strange question, why wouldn't they? Have a look for yourself, afraid my french is non existent

http://www.ttc.org/

http://www.world-newspapers.com/world-news.html

http://www.lemonde.fr/

http://www.world-newspapers.com/france.html

http://www.parismatch.com/

[illuminati]

gmc wrote: strange question, why wouldn't they? Have a look for yourself, afraid my french is non existent

http://www.ttc.org/

http://www.world-newspapers.com/world-news.html

http://www.lemonde.fr/

http://www.world-newspapers.com/france.html

http://www.parismatch.com/


Shame on my cynicism! I stand corrected.