Calling
"French
Leaked" Mali
Report a Lie,
Gbagbo
Supporters
Paint Flawed
UN
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 11 --
Last Saturday
a UN report
accusing
supporters
of Laurent
Gbagbo of
aligning
themselves
with Malian
coup leader
Sanogo and
Ansar Dine in
North Mali was
reported by
Radio France
International.
Other mostly
picked up on
it as true,
wondering what
the UN
Security
Council, on
which France
has a
permanent seat
and the
"pen" on Cote
d'Ivoire, will
do.
But
there is a
recent history
of
controversies
about UN
sanctions
groups
and their
leaders. Even
European
members of the
Security
Council were
critical to
Inner City
Press about Matt
Bryden of the
Council's
Somalia -
Eritrea group.
And
beyond Steve
Hege's 2009
writings on
the FDLR,
taken
off the
Internet
but highlighted by
Inner City
Press, new
complaints
against Hege
have been
lodged with
the Council
and committee.
So
what of
this Cote
d'Ivoire
report? For
now in the
interest of
fairness,
including
because
pro-Gbagbo
newspapers
were
threatened
with
suspension,
Inner City
Press will
quote from (in
English) and
put online
in French
and English
the FPI
spokesperson
in exile's
response, as
received:
DECLARATION
OF
FPI
COORDINATION
IN EXILE
FOLLOWING THE
INDEPENDENT
EXPERT’S
REPORT
PUBLISHED BY
THE UN RFI
On
Saturday,
October 6th,
2012, the
French Radio
(RFI)
announced a UN
report stating
that a meeting
of Gbagbo
supporters was
held in
Takoradi,
Ghana, on July
12, 2012 to
destabilize
Ouattara. This
report states
that the
destabilizing
plan received
the political
and
financial
support of
exiled Gbagbo
supporters
including Kone
Katinan,
Gossio Marcel
Charles Ble
Goude, Damana
Pickass, Kore
Moses, Nady
Bamba.
This
meeting was
said to have
as objective
the
preparation of
a campaign
to destabilize
Ivory Coast
from Ghana in
relation with
the former
military junta
of Mali and
the jihadists
of Ansar
Dine...
This
report that
makes no
mention of the
refusal of
OUATTARA to go
to
reconciliation
and the gross
violations of
human rights
is in fact
to:
-Save
Ouattara’s
regime that is
in trouble
-Maintain
the
number of
UNOCI forces
in Cote
d’Ivoire
-Put
pressure on
Ghana to
extradite the
Ivorian exiles
living on its
territory
-Create
aggravating
circumstances
to the
detention of
President
Gbagbo by
criminalizing
his spokesman,
his close
allies and his
political
party
by a
demonization
from economic
crimes,
violent crimes
to
destabilization
in conjunction
with the
former junta
of Mali and
the
jihadists of
Ansar Dine...
In
2010,
following the
second round
of
presidential
elections, the
Françafrican
network in
Cote d'Ivoire
produces false
results of the
second round
of
presidential
elections. The
Francafrican
media
trilogy:
France 24,
AFP, RFI
broadcasted
continuously
this result
then certified
by the UN on
the
proposition of
France.
In
the midst of
post-election
crisis, the
same network
with the same
method
produces
violations of
human rights
systematically
attributed
to the regime
of President
Gbagbo and
certified by
the United
Nations
to justify the
intervention
of the French
army and the
UNOCI. It was
followed by
the arrest of
President
Gbagbo, the
installation
of
Ouattara and
the arrest of
all senior FPI
members in
complicity
with
UNOCI who was
in charge of
protecting a
number of them
at Pergola
hotel in
Abidjan.
...When
we
know the drama
that these
false, then
certified by
the UN with
the
blessing of
Françafrican
network caused
to Cote
d'Ivoire, the
FPI
Coordination
cannot remain
silent before
such a fake...
FPI
Coordination
in exile would
therefore like
to:
-
denounce that
escalating of
the
demonization
of President
Gbagbo, his
family and his
party,
-
publicly
denounce this
attempt by the
UN to certify
a false
conspiracy to
extradite the
Ivorian exiles
and face
torture,
-
denounce RFI
once again for
being used as
an instrument
of
demonization
of Gbagbo
supporters,
-
denounce the
Françafrican
network whose
sole purpose
is the
creation
of permanent
insecurity in
West Africa to
make the
heinous trade;
weapons
against raw
material.
FPI
Coordination
reaffirms its
commitment to
a peaceful
transition to
democracy and
peaceful
methods of
conflict
resolution and
therefore
calls on:
-
M. OUATTARA to
abandon the
dead end of
the false and
engage in the
search for a
genuine
reconciliation,
effective and
sustainable.
This
reconciliation
goes through
the release of
President
Laurent
Gbagbo,
of all
political and
military
prisoners, the
safe return of
the
exiles.
-
Invite the UN
whose
credibility in
the Ivorian
opinion is
heavily
flawed to
return to the
core values
that have been
the foundation
of
his creation
and work for
healing and
reconciliation.
-
Reassure the
Ghanaian
authorities
and the
international
community of
our commitment
to finding a
political
solution to
the Ivorian
crisis
through
negotiation.
FPI
Coordination
in Exile calls
upon all
Ivorian for
the advent of
the
rule of law in
order to
prevent
further
tragedies in
our country.
For
the FPI
Coordination
in Exile, the
Spokesman: Dr.
Assoa Adou
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