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AFRICA HUMAN VOICE INTERNATIONAL Fédération d'Afrique |
| « La seule chose de bien à l'action de la violence, c'est l'action des hommes de bien » | |
or Pax Elysium |
Do you know the favorite song of Jacques Chirac in the evening, before going to bed, the one that he hums? In my opinion that should be " The Order and the Law ", musically performed by Maxime Le Forestier. That song, in which Marcus Licinius Crassus scolds the Roman Senate with his deep voice for its cowardice against the slavish rebellion, the whole thing with imperial music in the background. Let us reproduce the words in its entirety.
You will not let the rabble and its wills!
Tune:
Tune: Such is the user s manual of Pax-Elysium which, in an unconstitutional way, claims that in France the head of State has reserved domains such as diplomacy and defense. According to this Elysian allegory, the outlaws are us. The tramps are us. The shambles are still us. The vermin, to crush, it s always us. The less than nothing, are naturally us. The dogs to be muzzled are finally us. We have the foundations of the international gangsterism of State. What s its user s manual? THE GANGSTER IN THE COUNTRY. The history of Cote d'Ivoire will hold that Chirac's France in its vertiginous fall, which happens to countries whose leaders lack political visions, explicitly and openly, attacks the people of Cote d'Ivoire. While our soldiers of the Legion of the Honor raised in the sky, very high, the flames of our victory against what was presented by De Villepin (Chirac s foreign Minister until last year) and Paris as a powerful rebellion, rich, disciplined, the bloodthirsty and genocidal, French army, on Jacques Chirac's instructions, abruptly dashed into the battle, against any reason, and substituted themselves to what the diplomatic and political circle s in Paris call the armed forces of the new Forces then in crushing defeat. Catching off guard our soldiers who already had quite a night in Bouaké, French servicemen of the Foreign Legion attacked their headquarters in Yamoussoukro, their warplanes in the same city and in Abidjan. Not satisfied with that, French Forces dashed in the heights of Abidjan as much as on the pavements with several killers helicopters, and several murderous tanks awkward still, several vehicles of armed men and the impressive stocks of ammunitions of all kinds. "We control the city of Abidjan and several servicemen of the FANCI are on our sides proclaimed to whom wanted to hear them general Poncet (French troops chief commander) and his men". French forces, being the only ones with weapons in the city and, after having facilitated the escaping of prisoners from Maca (biggest prison in the city), created chaos and disorder in Abidjan at the same time. The lootings, the thefts, the rapes certainly have culprits whom the justice system of Cote D'Ivoire search for and if caught, will be punished. But it s the people in charge who owe restitutions to the victims of these two years during which French forces provided assistance to a rebellion whose only reality happens to be RFI (French national radio), the radio of propaganda, hatred, disinformation and racism of the most disdainful form there is. To perfect their putsch, French forces went even further and shot at the official residence of the Head of State in Abidjan-Cocody using machine-guns, wounding some of his guards after having bombarded the presidential palace in Yamoussoukro. It was a French military "coup d'Etat? in Cote d'Ivoire. On Jacques Chirac's instructions, French army was realizing a "coup d'Etat? in Cote d'Ivoire at the beginning of this November 2004- after shooting at all the security posts of the Ivorian State and occupied or destroyed its airports, bridges, hotels and streets - when the people of Cote d'Ivoire, by virtue of its constitution and the duties it imposes on each citizen, woke up to defend the Republic. Long live the people of Cote d'Ivoire! Caught in action of committing obvious offense, French forces massacred the civilian populations who, with bare hands, sang and danced to face the adversity of artillery, the fire of the attack rifles, the flame and toxin ejected by the murderous legion coming from France. The people of Cote d'Ivoire will never forget those massacres ordered by Chirac, in complete violation of all the elementary rules of international law and the charter of the United Nations. The people however foiled Jacques Chirac's attempt that was in perfect violation of the resolution 1528. After his military defeat, Jacques Chirac once a gain fetched support from the United Nations, the African Union and the European Union, to legitimize the cruelty of his army which has shot the Ivorian Patriots in the back and sweared that it is only shots of summation or reprimand. Was it a blunder? This army of Chirac uses rifles with telescopic sight and gunners carried by choppers to fight against a determined people. Chirac obtains everything from the world diplomacy against Cote d'Ivoire. This attitude of the French State is nothing short of an international gangsterism of State. The young Ivorian democracy is treated as fascist and anarchist while France tries to take over the power in this country. Jacques Chirac is a putchist. Cote d'Ivoire is convinced that Jacques Chirac's France acts in violation of the law and the freedom of the Ivorians. No intimidation will make us back off on this ground. The law was not said in Abuja. That wasn't the place anyway, as Mister Abdoulaye Wade (President of Senegal) pointed it out to us during this mini summit. The law was not said in New York by the UN Security Council; such was not the vocation of all those big international institutions anyway. They play politics, they are political, and they are managed by particular politicians whom we name technocrats, meaning totally unaccountable for before the peoples. The State of Cote D'Ivoire, in search of justice will confront France on the legal ground. MAY THE LAW REIGN NOW Justice will be seized to put back order in the system of the international gangsterism of the French State. The people of Cote d'Ivoire are anxious to protest before the French State and before the people of France against the barbaric acts of its army. The people of Cote d'Ivoire are anxious to protest in front of the United Nations for collusive indifference during the massacres of Ivorian Patriots who, with bare hands, confronted the gangsters of the political power who came in a punitive expedition of a people who is henceforth determined to continue its march on the road of the freedom. Beyond these two protests, the people of Cote d'Ivoire will ask the International Court of Justice of the Hague for its opinion so that this high authority can tell us whether a country which acts on the soil of another one under U.N. mandate can allow itself to do what France just did in Cote d'Ivoire, that is, engage immediately in reprisals against the host country on instructions of the Head of State recipient of the mandate, in blatant violation of the resolution 1528 which defines the mandate in question. This question of first importance comes to explicit our protests. Then, the State of Cote d'Ivoire will ask the International Court for sanctions against France for acts of violence perpetrated by the soldiers of the Unicorn force, for the violation of our sovereignty, our territorial integrity and for the other humiliating forms of violations of human rights and individual freedoms in Cote d'Ivoire. These reparations of damages that France will pay for are the ones that will serve as restitutions for the damages undergone by companies looted on all of the extent of the territory since September 19th, 2002. In addition to the families of the other victims of this rebellion created and maintained by Chirac's France, Implemented by Blaise Compaore and piloted by Allassane Dramane Ouattara who has just displayed, once again, his incompetence. Beyond this request before the international court, the people of Cote d'Ivoire will file a complaint with the justice systems of both Cote D'Ivoire and France against specific individuals whom it has been established that they participated in the massacres, ordered it, and hid it by their lie. The victims and their families will file a complaint against their French executioners. We have complete trust in the justice system where politics and diplomacy use stately crafted lie to hide and keep silent about the crimes committed in Cote d'Ivoire in the name of the greatness of France by Chirac and his soldiers. THE TRIBUTE OF VICE TO THE VIRTUE According to the press, President Blaise Compaore of Burkina says that the Ivorian conflict stems from mismanagement of government, the incapacity for the political system to organize a framework for democracy, a State of law. If on this point the President of Faso is right, it is advisable to ask him the question to know why this mis-management of government? Why are the African regimes incapable of realizing the States of law? The president of Burkina Faso accuses the globalization according to the Anglo-Saxon model which, according to him, puts the market over everything while the French-speaking model, superior to the Anglo-Saxon model from his point of view, contains values of diversities, dialogues, solidarity to be shared between members. This confession reveals the deep reasons of the crisis in Cote d'Ivoire. France through the French-speaking model of Compaore does not want either market, or competition, or freedom of choice. The French-speaking world model likes the solidarity and gives a social dimension to the globalization, terms which still remain to be defined. Everything is finally clear. The Ivorian conflict is due to the fact that Chirac's France refuses the competition in the economy of Cote D'Ivoire. The big public projects of investment must not have to be the object of public bids. They must be awarded, first and foremost, in private contracts by the politicians in the power in Cote d'Ivoire to French companies and damned those who would not execute. President Compaore thus defends French option of the refusal of any market economy in Cote d'Ivoire. "Your procurement contracts, exclaims Compaore, must be awarded by solidarity to French companies. These companies will create jobs in your country for the nationals of my country whom I cannot employ; and by the way I need some plots of ground of your parts of the country for my farmers, unusable surplus of manpower for me." It is the re-colonization of our country which is being played behind the fictitious rebellion of Rfi. The problem in Cote d'Ivoire is that Laurent Gbagbos government program bases itself on the market economy therefore on the Anglo-Saxon model, to use the same term as the President of Faso. The Ivorian crisis is nothing but a conflict between a former colonial power which protects its turf (pré-carré), its pension, and a people who yearns for the freedom of choice. Does President Compaore know that the market economy is freer than the economy administered by type Jacobin which he refers to as French-speaking world model? Does he know that the French-speaking world model is a model of exploitation of unjustifiable funds such as the accounts of our exchange transactions opened with the French Treasury? Does he know that the French-speaking world model of research and protection of the funds gave Cote d'Ivoire inputs of the water supply, the electricity and the telephone that are among the most expensive of the continent? Does he know that these costs are the source of higher bills in Cote d'Ivoire? Does he know that to reduce our unemployment and to give jobs to the surplus manpower coming from Burkina Faso our country needs growth? Does he know that this growth cannot be obtained within the framework of what he calls the French-speaking world model? Does he know the proportion in which the State of Cote d'Ivoire contributes to the budget of UEMOA (West African monetary organization) through the community taxes of solidarity? In Cote d'Ivoire, whether Chirac and Compaore like it or not, we want to go to the market and find the best skills at the best prices and costs for our political, economic and financial choices in the interest of our country. Our choice must be clear, it s about the market everywhere, because he who says market, says freedom of choice. We will not accept in any case, that anyone else imposes us an option. Our choice of a market and its modalities must be free. Our democratic choices must be free. United we shall be if we want to. We don t want anymore of compulsory solidarity of the pooling of the reserves of exchange of our country with those of our neighbors whose only economic policy is to destabilize us and take advantage of it with impunity. We want, in this logic, to be able to execute public bids of our market freely. We want to apply freely the constitution of the freedom that we gave ourselves. We want that the theft of our net outside assets (credit notes) by the French Treasury to stop, theft all the more unjustifiable as we are not French taxpayers. Jacques Chirac who has so much trouble governing France intends to order the French-style peace in Cote d'Ivoire. We do not want either pax-Impiria or pax-Elysium. This peace that was proposed to us is the one that the underworld imposes to the stores owners in the films which tell Mafia stories. The international gangsterism of State is so presented by the President of Burkina as a cultural value of the French-speaking world model. If such was the case then our country should get away as soon as possible from the French-speaking world model. Neither UEMOA, nor the African Union and the United Nations had to regret the massacres of the civilian and military populations by the French soldiers. Spontaneously. And to say that theses organizations sing all day long that our country is essential in Africa. It is to believe that Chirac's France would be above the international law. Justice will decide. In the meantime, to eliminate new risks of coups d'itat, giving the fact that we will not move away from our reliable position on the market, it is imperative that the Unicorn force leave sooner Cote d'Ivoire even if Alassane Ouattara congratulates it for having killed and wounded the Patriots by shooting at them in the back and burning them live. Criminals associations, thus after the mass graves of Bouaké, Korhogo and elsewhere in zones taken hostage by the rebels. AND WHAT NEXT?
The dead and the wounded come to us from all the political parties, religions, and all walks of life. Cleary, it seemed that with this crisis the national consciousness got the upper hand over the political memberships. When the Republic knew the gravest danger of its young existence, the Ivorian people, in its great majority, regretted and dashed into the streets to block the road to the international gangsters of State. These dynamics must be maintained no matter our various political parties, we must now proclaim our refusal of "coup d'Etat? and re-colonization of our country. We must, all together, condemn the French State and demand reparations. We must, together, demand our way out of the zone of franc Cfa. The denunciation clauses are integral parts of treaties and agreements of cooperation. It is our right to want out if we do not share the same ideal of development anymore. When others grow rich by trafficking arms and diamond to then act as the emperors of the region, solidarity loses its meaning. Moreover, if France intervenes to support these aggressive regimes, then it is the international morality that is challenged. We must together demand the departure of the Unicorn force, from our country. All these choices are within our reach and several people in the world think like us. We need some audacity and we do have it. At any case, we have already been punished. What could we be afraid of again? You will see cemeteries of Patriots who died for their homelands, but never will you see the cemetery of Countries, States or Republics. The world is vast and there are more competitive companies ready to invest in our country. Burkina can choose to be an economy without freedom. Our people not only want to be a State of law, it looks beyond to become a society of human rights. If the member countries of UEMOA do not want it, nothing prevents us from going alone. Beyond UEMOA, there is CEDEAO, the U.A and the U.N. On the subject, the imagination is not sterile. With the globalization, the world is at our feet. Let us not give up the freedom to bend down and collect it. Some doors are closing, but those from the whole world are opening and so is the future. The world is vast and the neo-colonial pact that resulted from agreements of French-Ivorian cooperation of August 24th, 1961, must be thrown out in all its competences and components. The page of assistance of our State by the French State must be turned over, French companies which accept free-market economy and the rule of law will be on the market for the same reason as American, Japanese, German, Chinese, Senegalese, Ivorian companies and others. No company, no matter its nationality, will be above the law in our country. And as the new French president of UMP (Chirac s Political party), Nicolas Sarkosy, says it so well " if our legislation bothers certain persons, they ought to grab their suitcases and go away ". To applaud this type of comment in Mr. Sarkosy's case, and condemn it by means of a UN Security Council resolution in the case of Ivorians would thus only be ostracism. We admit henceforth, after the failures of development policies variously led during more than half a century by unique parties supported by the Elysee palace, that in the end, to the problem of the immigration, stagnation and unemployment in the African economies, we must respond by the free enterprise and free exchange of our properties. The colonization or the neo-colonization by France, because of their Jacobin inspiration, imperial, and venal are definitively to be banned from our home. Also, faced with the problems of nationality and citizenship in the dynamics of globalization, we respond not by "coups d'Etat?, rebellions, invasions and mass graves, but by the international competition, the competitiveness, the creativity and the freedom of choice of the citizens and States according to the recognized rules of good manners. No stifling solidarity, no pursuit of unearned income and protections of priviledges would make us give up this ideal. The compulsory pseudo solidarity between colonized on one hand, and the Elysee palace and the colonized of the other hand, has proved to be -in time- ruinous, ineffective, useless, violent, and murderous. To the problem of the rural land tax, we respond by private ownership of lands in our country. To the sub-regional problem of the integration, we respond by the Representativeness in proportion to the weight of each of the member states. Only our rights as
human beings and the responsibilities which they entail oblige us.
Mamadou Koulibaly |