Gaullist Africa Resurrected

Whole villages in Bamileke Cameroun were napalmed by the French Army. Says French pilot, Max Bardet, who participated in some of the mass murders in the jungles. “They killed anything between 300.000 to 400.000 people; a veritable genocide. They virtually annihilated a tribe. It was a matter of spears versus rifles. The natives had no chance and they were butchered exactly like Attila the Hun erased villages.”

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Gaullist Africa Resurrected

By Ntemfac Aloysius Nkong Ofege

The French are coming! Oh yes, they are! On January 19th, 2001, President Chirac of France will lead his throng to a newly beautified Yaounde, Cameroun’s capital city. Another France-Africa Summit will be underway. The theme of this year’s summit is: holy thy breath: Africa and Globalisation, a frontal attack on US imperialism and its extreme form called globalisation. The view from way away is that the Yaounde Summit is yet another attempt to launch another attack on Anglo-Saxon values (which values, with hindsight do not include the Neanderthalian America neo-conservatism and the bush art of torturing and sexually abusing prisoners of war in Iraq). There are reasons enough for any English-speaking observer to be miffed. We explore the reasons for a legitimate anger at the French.

The Earlier RwandaI
Some forty years ago, between 1952 and 1970, French soldiers murdered some 500.000 Camerounians – Bassas and Bamilekes in the main – in the jungles of French Cameroun.
The mass slaughter of what was then the Army for the Liberation of Kamerun (ANLK), led by a certain Martin Singap, was executed with the blessing of the now-dead Ahmadou, Ahidjo, then president of Cameroun.
Whole villages in Bamileke Cameroun were napalmed by the French Army. Says French pilot, Max Bardet, who participated in some of the mass murders in the jungles. “They killed anything between 300.000 to 400.000 people; a veritable genocide. They virtually annihilated a tribe. It was a matter of spears versus rifles. The natives had no chance and they were butchered exactly like Attila the Hun erased villages.”
French Defense Minister at the time, Pierre Guillaumat reveals that Ahidjo’s mentor at the time; Foccart dispatched a veritable war machine against the Bamilekes in Cameroun. “Foccart played an important role in this business,” says Guillaumat. “ Between them Ahidjo, Foccart and the French Secret Service crushed the Bamilekes.”
French military information, now unclassified, reveals that Foccart sent out five divisions, one tank unit, T26 bombers, and a veteran of the ill-fated Indo-China campaign, General Max “The Viking” Briand to savage the Camerounian nationalists.
Charles Van de Lanoitte, Reuters correspondent or Douala (1960-1961) says in one swoop some 40.000 people were killed in bassaland. Arrested nationalists were tortured to death and buried in mass graves. The greatest nightmare for the natives was to be arrested for those arrested never came back alive.
The balançoire, a torture system wherein natives were tied upside down and then flogged on the genitals as they swung from end to end was used massively in French Cameroun.
Bassas and Bamilekes involved in the independence struggle were arrested in their numbers and tortured to death. The death chambers were the infamous BMM (Brigades Mobiles Mixtes) cells scattered all over Francophone Cameroun. The torturer-in chief was no other than the late Fochive Jean.
The French Secret Service (the service for External Documentation and Counter-Espionage) created a local arm in Cameroun to fish out the Camerounian nationalists.
What the world is only just discovering with the direct participation of the French in the ultra mayhem in Rwanda –where 1.500.000 people were slain – is that French genocidal practices in Africa is not new. The French murdered the Arabs and destroyed infrastructure. The French organized another little mayhem in Vietnam until they were thrashed at Dien Bien Phu.
The French have always been guilty of supplying arms to rival warring factions in Africa. Standard French practice is to “flatter the president, fund the opposition, and then arm the rebels.”
“We have been supplying arms to the FAR (Hutu dominated Rwandan Armed forces) by passing through Goma,” the former French Cooperation Minister, Michel Roussin told a reporter, “But we will reuse that if you publish it.”

The Elf PresidentII

On June 3rd 1999, the presidency of Cameroun put out a disclaimer saying that Cameroun’s president Mr. Paul Biya never “borrowed” the sum of 27 billion FCFA from the French Oil Company, Elf for his 1992 re-election bid.
The disclaimer was in reaction to an article in the French satirical journal, Le Canard Enchainé, taken up by Le Messager No 923 of June 4th 1999. The publication said that Mr. Biya requested and obtained the sum of 27 Billion FCFA from the IHAG-HANDAELSBANK of Zurich, which bank is owned by the Ditter Buhrle family. The Ditter Buhrle family deals in arms.
The big loan transited through Elf-Cameroun. Members of the Charles Pasqua racket in France that facilitated the loan got 15 Billion FCFA for their pains.
The publication said that the money to Pasqua was channeled through an offshore bank called Faraday in the Virgin Islands. Mr. Pasqua, who called on Mr. Biya before the elections to finalise the deal, personally made 9 Billion FCFA from the scam.
The disclaimer from Cameroun’s presidency dated June 4th never refuted the transaction. It only added that Cameroun’s Hydrocarbon Corporation, SNH had the right to borrow money through pre-financing deals.

OIL and the Foreign Legion
French design has always been to maintain a strong military presence in the Central and West African pre-carré under the so-called “military defense and cooperation treaties” signed with Francophone Africa at the dawn of independence.
Since independence, France has sustained some 8 military bases and about 10.000 troops in areas as diverse as Chad, the Central African Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroun and Zaire. These soldiers have always been used to main local dictators in place and sustain French neo-colonialism.
Frightened that the opposition would seep him out of power in 1992, Mr. Biya caused some 500 French troops to move from their base in the Central African Republic and take up positions about Yaounde’s Etoudi Palace. “What are 500 French troops doing at Etoudi?” was a provocative headline by the then Publisher of the Cameroon Post, Paddy Akoh Mbawa, based on a scoop revealed to the newspaper by a top army official. Cameroon’s military intelligence, SEMIL, mounted a manhunt for Mr. Mbawa, not so much, because the veracity of the story was challenged but because the military wanted to know how the journalist got the story.
Between 1962-1994, there were 18 direct French interventions in Africa to maintain French neocolonialism.
French sallies in Africa include:
1. The 1950-1970 forays into Cameroun at the behest of Ahidjo to savage militants of the banned Union des Populations du Cameroun, UPC;
2. The 1962 expedition to maintain Leopold Sedar Senghor in power in Senegal;
3. The 1964 and 1990 intervention in Gabon to maintain Leon Mba and Omar Bongo respectively;
4. Various expeditions in Chad in 1968, 1978, 1983, and 1986 to impose the following dictators: Tombalbaye, Malloum, Hissene Habre.
5. In 1990, the French-backed Idriss Derby. They have since given Mr. Derby the wherewithal to stay in power;
6. In 1978, the French barged into Zaire to save Mobutu. La Legion saute sur Kolwezi is a movie claiming French prowess in the Congo. After being outwitted by a Ugandan-Rwandan backed rebellion led by Kabila, the French took sides with the Bayamulenge-Rwandan Hutu posse that tried to topple Kabila in 1988;
7. The French intervened in Central Africa in 1979 to impose Kolingba. When troops in Central Africa rioted in 1997 over unpaid salaries, the French Foreign Legion moved in;
8. The French oil concern, ELF, was very involved in the 1996-1997 fight in the Congo on the side of Sassou Ngessou against the elected president, Pascal Lissouba;
9. Bongo remains in power in Gabon thanks to hi great cpacity to bribe French politicians through ELF;
10. The French intervened in Togo in 1986 to maintain the tyrant Eyadema;
11. French mercenary, Bob Denard, has, often with the backing of the French government, executed several coup d’états in the Comoros;
12. The French were directly linked to the mayhem in Rwanda. The SAM 6 missile that downed Habyarimana’s plane and triggered the Rwanda massacre came from a French military depot. Even before that, French forces intervened in Rwanda in 1989, 1990 and 1993 to stop the Rwandan Patriotic Front from toppling Habyarimana.
13. In 1994, the French launched Operation Turquoise which, in reality, permitted the Hutu-dominated, Rwandan Armed Forces, FAR to execute a return match against the Tutsi-led Rwandan patriotic Forces;
14. In 1992, the French sent 500 soldiers to keep Mr. Biya in power in Cameroun;
15. The French intervened in the Cote d’Ivoire in 2003 to prop up Laurent Gbagbo

Comments

[Jules Boha]

The French did not intervene to "prop up Laurent Gbagbo." The French intervened to stop the Ivorian government from vanquishing the French-backed rebellion which was being routed after a failed coup d'etat. Events, including the declaration by the then French Ambassador in Abidjan that "Gbagbo will be gone by Christmas," have revealed that through Burkina Faso of Campaore, and Liberia of then President Charles Taylor where determined to destabilize the Gbagbo regime that was in the process of bringing an end to the rigged economic game in favor of French interests that had obtained in the Ivory Coast since independence. You see, any regime in Francophone Africa that does not pursue, first the interest of France above all others is seeking an independence that was never granted them by France.
Mr. Ofege should do proper research and informed analysis before drawing such conclusions.

[deganz]

Thank you for thorough research which is very right.
I am from Congo/brazza, and everyday I cry out to God to help Africa and my country to free from france. My heart is really hurt since I know clearly how France is plundering my country. I work in oil business and since eight years I have been a witness of many crimes, the french government and it executive envoy Elf(now Total) are performing in my country. So your document makes me feel very confortable in my beliefs. I pray so that by such initiatives as yours many people in africa and thoughout the world will wake-up and stand for the final change.
Let The lord Jesus be in our side and bless Africa.
And God bless you.

God Bless You Too. Immensely
Ofege

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