*Coup d’État in Mali *
*Amadou Toumani Touré* the President of Mali, has been removed in a coup
d’état.
Amadou Toumani Touré, when he was an army General, himself led a coup
d’état that, on 26 March 1991, secured a “regime change” of the then
President *Moussa Traoré*, who had been accused of “killing his own
people”.
Moussa Traoré, also an army General, had come to power in a previous
coup d’état against Mali’s liberation President, *Modibo Keita*, the
self-declared socialist who had led the country to independence in 1960.
Both Amadou Toumani Touré and, before him, Moussa Traoré, had their
positions legalised after their coups by subsequent “elections”, and
were welcomed among the so-called “international community”.
_*Coup d’état of 22 March 2012 no different*__**_
There is as yet no reason to believe that the coup d’état of 22 March
2012 is any different in political content from the previous two coups
d’état in Mali. That is to say, it will not disturb the neo-colonial
nature of the Malian polity, but will, on the contrary, serve to
perpetuate neo-colonialism.
This is the main on-going function of the army in the typical
neo-colonial state, while the periodic coups d’état serve as a
“succession” mechanism, and the elections as a sanitation, or a
whitewashing, mechanism.
There are thousands of English-language stories on the Internet today
about yesterday’s coup in Mali. The majority of them are from the USA.
None of them have any useful political or historical content.
We will therefore remain with the above brief summary until better
material is available. We hope to be able to publish first-hand,
original texts from Mali, and if available, journalism from elsewhere
that is informed by history and by an understanding of the trajectory of
Imperialism in Africa at this time.
*VC *
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