The isolation of France in Central Africa
Jean-Pierre Dubois, LE PETIT Blanquist Notepad, 5 January 2014 Journalist Colette Braeckman examines the reasons why, despite the green light from the UN, France seems to be isolated and cornered in the Central African Republic (CAR). She recalls, first, that Operation Sangaris represents the 11th (eleventh!) intervention of the French army in CAR since the country gained its independence. Thus, in 1965, France imposes Jean-Bedel Bokassa to the Presidency in 1979, chasing and removngi his predecessor, David Dacko, on a "special flight". In 2003, it approved the coup of General François Bozizé against the elected president Ange-Félix Patassé. Ten years later, March 24, 2013, France allows Michel Djotodia and his “Seleka” militia (Seleka means “Alliance” in Sango) to overthrow Bozizé (disgraced for having dared to open to the Chinese, oil fields and uranium mines in his country.) Colette Braeckman also presents a serious observation of the French colonization: CAR is up to now a country without roads or administrative supervision, almost as undeveloped as South Sudan. In this context - she says - we must be aware of "the sophistication of military resources available to the Seleka" and explains its "lightning advance." These "warriors without borders" have operated in Chad, Sudan and all the gray areas of the Sahelian belt. They are trained and hardened. With other movements such as ADF-Nalu, operating in northern Congo, Seleka represents a vanguard threat throughout the forest zone of Cameroon to the north of Kenya, representing (according to Braeckman) a southward push of Sahelian nomadic populations, marked by Islam towards green pastures of Central Africa. Faced with these fighters, armed states as weak as CAR cannot prevail. As for the French, they are in short supply, and are only supported by 4,000 men of the African Standby Force, the neutrality of whose 850 Chadians is questionable. "Those who expected a short operation, such as to restore the presidential coat of arms, have sinned not only through too much optimism, but mostly by ignorance or presumption, says Colette Braeckman. From: http://lepetitblanquiste.hautetfort.com/archive/2014/01/05/l-isolement-de-la -france-en-centrafrique-5263564.html -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
