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By Dr. Gary K. Busch

Fresh from his victory at the polls François Hollande has joined the outgoing French President, Sarkozy, in the celebration of the 8^th of May 1945 when the Allies claimed victory over the Axis Forces in Europe. There is a great deal of congratulations on a victory in which the French played a minor role except as collaborators with the occupying German forces for over five years or as Resistance fighters once the French Communists, operating under the Hitler-Stalin Pact, were forced to abandon their collaboration with the Nazis when the Germans attacked the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. It was not a time of heroism.

However, the most important aspect of the French celebration of that day in May 1945 is almost always forgotten. That was the day that the French began their massacre of the Algerians at Sétif. Despite the fact that most of the fighting against the Axis forces and Vichy France in North Africa had been conducted with honour and dispatch by Algerian troops the French decided to celebrate the victory of the Allies (a small part of whom were French) by committing an act of barbarism and genocide that echoes to this day. In one weekend of violence they murdered 45,000 Algerians.

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By Dr. Gary K. Busch

There are many silly conclusions being drawn about war crimes as a result of the verdict on Charles Taylor. The trial in Sierra Leone and The Hague, after spending millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money, could not prove Charles’ criminal engagement with Foday Sankoh or Johnny Paul Koroma in their vicious struggle for supremacy in Sierra Leone. Yes, the court showed that Taylor provided aid and assistance to the insurgents in return for diamonds. What the prosecution left out was that the arms and assistance he provided to Sierra Leone were supplied by Jacques Chirac and Moammar Kadaffi and were handled by Blaise Campaore of Burkina Faso, Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali and Mamadou Tandja of Niger also assisted. These were the unindicted co-conspirators in the arming of Sierra Leone’s rebels and their names were not mentioned. This was also the cast of villains who provided arms and equipment to the rebels in the Ivory Coast and to several factions in the Liberian civil war. They have been immune from condemnation and prosecution. In fact, Chirac and Sarkozy speak of their roles as if they were heroes of democracy.

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Kangsen Feka Wakai

Dear Mr. Yongui,

I hope my letter meets you well. I recently stumbled upon this article culled from Le Messager newspaper, about a recent letter you wrote to certain authorities about the recent recruitment of 25,000 ‘youth’ by the government of Cameroon.

Le Messager did not publish any of your six letters, even though it did quote excerpts from them. I was immediately struck, which in a way inspired my letter to you, not about your complaint itself, but rather, the people you choose to send your letters to; President Paul Biya, Prime-Minister Philemon Yang, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the French ambassador and the French Cultural attaché in Yaoundé, and to the resident representative of the United Nations in Cameroon.

I remain skeptical that those letters of yours can remedy your circumstance, however, their significance, whether intended or not, should not be downplayed. First of all, why would a citizen of Cameroon decide to include the French President, his representatives and the resident UN representative in Cameroon in a correspondence about a perceived recruitment injustice? Especially regarding an issue that in stately matters must seem rather trivial, and I know you know this.

Sir, there has to be more to this. What are you trying to tell us that you aren’t saying?

Forgive me if I am misreading your intent, but Mr. Jean Paul Yongui, your sense of humor, though it is of the darker variety, intrigues me. I am almost certain I am not the only reader who almost broke a rib from laughter after reading the article. You can rest assured that I was not laughing at you, I was laughing with you. But some of the responses I read were not very flattering; one commentator wrote you had lost your mind, other just left smiling symbols, there were a few LOLs, and a rather sardonic commentator suggested you must go through the former IMF official, Alassane Quattara if you really want to get to Sarkozy; funny, right?

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By Kangsen Feka Wakai

(I wrote this piece as a parody, the only way I can express my outrage with the incident.)

Armor Inc. is proud to launch its first item after just four weeks of operations. The D. Martin Bell body suit will premier its pre-summer clothing series, which promises to awe, and perhaps even stun aficionados of post-modernist mode from Atlanta to Johannesburg.

The D. Martin Bell body suit was conceived by a team of self-described activist designers driven, by not just their interest in haute couture, but by a sense of social responsibility. According to the designers, the D. Martin Bell body suit is a creative response and proactive measure against the rampant and rather unapologetic murders of young men of African descent for no other reason but being young black men in what some claim to be the right place at the wrong time.

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Originally published in rt.com:

A shocking video has appeared on the Internet showing Libyan rebels torturing a group of black Africans. People with their hands bound are shown being locked in a zoo-like cage and allegedly forced to eat the old Libyan flag.
­“Eat the flag, you dog. Patience you dog, patience. God is Great,” screams a voice off-camera in the video uploaded to YouTube last week, which also made its way onto LiveLeak.com.
The torturers are also shown making the group of captive black Africans stand up with pieces of green cloth still in their mouths and apparently forcing them start jumping.

A number of people are shown standing outside the cage watching the atrocity.

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Seven years later, on April 19, 2008 The Times (London) published an article by Matthew Parris entitled ‘The new scramble for Africa begins’, which drew attention to the global demand for the immense African natural resources, and said:

“Fifty years ago the decolonisation of Africa began. The next half-century may see the continent recolonised. But the new imperialism will be less benign. Great powers aren’t interested in administering wild places any more, still less in settling them: just raping them. Black gangster governments sponsored by self-interested Asian or Western powers could become the central story in 21st-century African history.”

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For supporting the ten year French-sponsored coup to overthrow constitutional order in Cote d’Ivoire and the execution of Gadhafi (rewarding terrorists in both instances), Obama has forever lost the respect of progressive Africa and we hope he spends his retirement, whether it’s in 2013 or 2017,  in visiting those whose bidding he’s done against the interest of Africa.  He’s earned his fan base in the elite parlors of Paris and London. We will not welcome him in Africa. Jacob Zuma gave his wife a taste of it when she visited South Africa earlier this year.

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