KADDAFI AND GBAGBO: A menacing couple of the west’s interests in Africa?

Le 03 août 2011 par IvoireBusiness - For the ordinary people, Presidents Kaddafi and Gbagbo are two of the worst African leaders of the twenty-

first century. The western media and the politicians have joined ranks to sublimate the killers and other criminals in Africa. In the ‘old-new world order’, being rebels has become the “celebrity-like” system the West and its rebel allies are using to destroy, once again, the advancement of Africa. Rebellions get what is necessary to overturn legally elected and long established governments across the African continent. Rebels are even given new name: ‘defenders of democracy’. To understand what is behind the unconditional support the West (England, France, the United States of America, their allies and their corporations) gives to the “uprising” in Africa, we invite you to read our text which is not yet, the tip of the iceberg that is justifying the killings in Africa. Are there any Human Rights for Africans? Or, do Human Rights change color from one race to another? Or, from one continent to another? Will Africa ever become independent?

“The world poorest continent”, “The continent of diseases and famine”, “The continent whose inhabitants are taking our jobs”, “Europe must close its frontiers”, “The outsiders are coming”, “It is our duty to step in and save the oppressed in Africa”, “Our way of being and living must prevail”, “You are either with us or against us” and “We must repatriate the illegal immigrants together in any planes going back to Africa”. These are some media and political discourse headlines that circulate in the West when the “matter” Africa is on the table. It is seldom to see or read anywhere in the West a newspaper praising an African leader or his policies for his own people. When, accidently, an African leader is positively mentioned by a medium in the West, one ought to look behind the headlines or the discourses that praised him.
We do acknowledge that a huge proportion of the African leaders are criminals in any sense of the word. They are not saints or innocent in the sufferings of millions of children, women and men across Africa. But, we must question the position of “the saviors “coming from the West. Colonel Kaddafi became the “Enfant Cheri” of the West after he decided to pay damages for the Lockerbie bombings. He was elevated at the rank of “a great world visionary” by the West, included the then British Premier Tony Blair who paid him a visit in his desert. British oil companies obtained the lion share in the deals Mr. Tony Blair negotiated for his people. And, at that time, curiously, no one in the West saw the “sufferings” of the “ordinary Libyans” whose situation became so inhuman since 2010 that only a military intervention that is costing millions of pounds to France, to the US and to Britain became “the only way out” to save the country and its people.
On the other hand, the arrival of Mr. Gbagbo at the top of the Ivory Coast was a big choc and unwanted surprise in the West. In France particularly, from the presidential palace of the Elysée and from the Office of Foreign Affairs, the code was the “T.S.G*” (everyone can be president, but not Gbagbo”. Mr. Bédié, the heir of Mr. Boigny, was ousted by a military junta in December 1999. The then “Father Christmas*”, General Robert Gueï became “arrogant” vis-à-vis to France, the master that has no intention to leave the Ivory Coast. Mr. Dramane, the French choice who is also a friend of Washington tried in vain to hijack the country in 1993. He was prevented by the country’s constitution* to compete in the presidential elections of 2000 won by the university lecturer and revolutionary Mr. Laurent Gbagbo. Neither the French Socialist Party, The International Socialist (the so called natural allies of Mr. Gbagbo’s party), nor the French Conservatives and the French Far Right had thought to see this “Buffon*” coming in their system established since the 1885 Berlin Conference* that saw Africa being balkanized by the western powers. In this scenario seen as “un péché impardonnable” (unforgiveable sin) committed in the most important (economically, strategically and as a second country for the French) French speaking country in West Africa, President Gbagbo would never rule the country as he pledged to do. From the day he was sworn in as president to April 11th 2011 (the month President Gbagbo has been kidnapped and thousands of innocent Ivorians killed by French bandits and UN forces), the West, led by France, the colonizer, did not hide their hideous political face. Not only the atrocities committed by the UN forces, French legion étagère and Mr. Dramane’s own men have become a daily routine, but President Gbagbo and hundreds of his supporters are imprisoned on the ground of nothing.
The attacks on Libya and the Ivory Coast have their justification in the charisma and policies advocated by both Kaddafi and Gbagbo. In Libya, no one pays for education and this primary to university. Healthcare under Kaddafi was/is free. Kaddafi’ government gives helping hand to fellow African leaders who could not pay the salaries of their citizens. Under Kaddafi, many African students (not Libyans only) get bursaries to study in Europe and in America. The oil serves the Libyans before anyone else. Housing is the most humane in the world. The salaries of workers are ones of the highest in the world.
As soon as he took power, President Gbagbo got rid of school uniforms. This has being reinstated by the new Education Minister, Mrs. Kandia Camara whose French vocabulary is so limited that she has to create new words to replace the existing ones any times she opens her mouth. By his gesture, President Gbagbo wanted to see all the children of his country to get educated. Parents were warn that jail was their repository if they do not send their girls to school as some parents used to do under the old guard. There was also free education. His central political concept was called the “Refondation*”. He decentralized the administration and then delegated powers to the presidents of the regions so that Abidjan and Yamoussoukro could breathe and the all country could benefit from the revenues of the various riches, including oil, the country has. It would be audacious trying to present the all programs of these two great Africans victimized for their hunger to free their continent with its people who have many blinded in their ranks.
Did many Africans know that a single African Currency (A.C) was about to be “born” under the leadership of Kaddafi and Gbagbo? If the answer is “yes”, they are not many. How many Africans also knew that the African Monetary Funds (A.M.F) was about to take the world by storm? Certainly, not many knew this either. This act for the freedom of Africa was, again, a baby cherished by both General Kaddafi and President Gbagbo. Did you know that Kaddafi refused Mr. Sarkozy’s big idea of the Mediterranean Union (M.U)? Did many Africans and others know that President Gbagbo wanted his country to be open to other countries apart from “the three big” (France, Britain and the US). How many of you knew that the new American Embassy in the Ivory Coast is the biggest in all Africa and the second in its kind in the world and that this Embassy is a town within the town of Abidjan. As one could see, the emergence or the birth of both the A.M.F and the A.C would render Africa really independent. But, the big issue here is the damage this couple would do to the world most powerful currencies (Dollar, Pound, and Euro). And, with Africa in control of its own currency guaranteed by its own Monetary Funds, the current “World Bank”, the International Monetary Funds (whose agent has taken over in the Ivory Coast with the help of Sarkozy, Obama and their allies) and all the western underground world that control the world economy, the world banking system and affairs would return to dust. This are the challenges that the pair Sarko-Obama and their friends could not let happen.
Anyways, who cares, Africans do not deserve to be free and happy as there is no difference between them and the chimpanzee that shares the jungle with them (in Le Code Noir* and in the Washington Code* also known as the Imperialism Charter*). And their own leaders prefer to bank their money abroad. Also, they buy villas and castles that they know that they can never take back to their own countries in Europe, fantastic. They accept to pay taxes to western countries, but not to their own states, bravo.
Once again, we ought to emphasize that we are not apologetic toward these two African leaders. We are among their fiercest critiques, but as a popular say states: “It not because you do like the rabbit that you will deny that it runs faster than you”.
In the case of the Ivory Coast, the world is watching one of the gruesome holocausts. The West and its multiple antennas (corporations, secret societies and politicians) are backing an indescribable ethnical cleansing in this part of Africa and say nothing. Slowly, but surely, Ivory Coast, whose capital Abidjan was once called the “Small Manhattan of Africa”, is marching backward and dying with its people to leave the road free for the West and its corporations. If nothing is done to stop the killings organized by Mr. Dramane’s men under the protection of the UN and France, it would be late, too late indeed, to come and talk about another “genocide” in Africa as it was the case in Rwanda, Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia…The time of conference and politically correct discourse is over. The crimes need to be stopped.
In Libya, for months, the West has launched its heavy weapons. The country’s most praised assets destroyed. Children and adults are killed daily like mosquitoes. The oil wells under the “control” of the rebels are burning. The country has been taken by any guns that, with or without Kaddafi, will not disappear in the fin air like a cigarette smoke. For generations, Libya will be like a western movie where the law of guns will prevail. Why the western democracies cannot learn from their mistake in Somalia? Or, is it because of their interests that the African people have to pay with their lives? Do Human Rights change colour from one race to another?

SYLVAIN DE BOGOU

1-T.S.G: Tout Sauf Gbagbo (everyone can be president, not Gbagbo).
2-Father Christmas: Robert Gueï was nicknamed Father Christmas because the military junta that put him in power ousted Bédié just before the Christmas festivities.
3-Constitution: contrary to the western propaganda that serves the West’s interests, Dramane was not prevented to stand for the 2000 presidential elections on the grounds of xenophobia. He called his own party to say “yes” to the new constitution. He did not fulfill the criteria demanded. But, as we see, when you have a gun and you have the backing of the west, the rest is just a question of time to achieve your dream, even with the blood of thousands of innocent people.
4-buffon: someone who is not taken seriously by his fellows. In this case, in France, no one thought that Mr Gbagbo could ever become president.
5-Berlin Conference (1885): it was during this meeting, in Germany, that France, Britain, Spain, Portugal and the host Germany divided the African continent. Germany lost its parts following the second Great War to the winners.
6-Refondation: President Gbagbo wants a new and free African. A person who sees himself inferior or superior to any other races.
7-Le Code Noir: a text commissioned by Louis XIV to justify the enslavement of black people. You could read this text thanks to Léandre Sahiri’s pay.
8-The Imperialism Carter: this text was written in Washington. You have to read. The text sets up the ideology of world dominance by the super powers.