MOST TODAY WORLD TYRANTS COME FROM MUSLIM COUNTRIES WHY?


http://dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2011-12-19-on-the-death-of-kim-jong-il

Gambia's president Yahya Jammeh is mentioned in almost most news papers where Dictators are mentioned. Here is a man who want to be remembered as a bad news for all Gambians when he has all the chances to turn the clock around in his favour by allowing free press, releasing all political prisoners and upgrading reforms that would turn international attention towards his move.
It is indeed sad that most of the world's most brutal tyrants unfortunately comes from the Muslim world. What is happening? How can such a noble religion allow itself to be associated with devilist leaders.

Late Saddam Hussain of Iraq
Late Murmar Gaddafi of Libya
Late Omar Bongo of Gabbon
Late Lassana Conteh of Guinea
The Al kalifa royal family of Bahrain
Ahmadinajad of Iran
The Soud Royal Family of the kingdom of Soudi Arabia
Ben Ali of Tunisia
Al Bashir of Sudan
Yahya Jammeh of Gambia
Ali Abdoullah Asaleh of Yemen
Bashar Al Assad of Syria
Ali Odingba Bongo of Gabon
Dadis Camara of Guinea

All these leaders have used force on their own people killing many in the process. How could these happen? A religion built on tolerance to have leaders who are hell bent of staying in power regardless of what the people want is a thing that needs closer look.

ICELAND RECOGNISES A PALESTINIAN STATE.



http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Iceland_formally_recognises_Palestinian_state_with_pre-1967_borders

This Thursday, following a vote two weeks ago in the Icelandic parliament, the country's government granted formal recognition to the state of Palestine. The Althingi's move ratifies recognition of Palestine with borders as-before the 1967 Six-Day War.

In the vote taken by the 63 members of parliament, 38 voted for and 13 abstained. In passing the resolution Iceland became the first Western European state to formally recognise the Palestinian state. In late November Cyprus similarly recognised Palestine with 1967 borders.

The move by the Icelandic government comes as European states such as France, Spain, and Ireland have upgraded their countries' Palestinian missions to full embassies recently.

This could be seen as another milestone in the struggle for a palestinian State along side Israel. I belief that is what most of the peoples of the two want rather than bloodshed and kidnapping of each other's militants.

JAMMEH TUGS THREATENED PROMINENT OPPOSITIONS TO EITHER JOIN THEIR OGA OR RISK GETTING KILLED



Join APRC or Risk Killed

Is these what Yahya Jammeh calls what he has done for Gambian people? How can people be threatened to either join the APRC or risk getting killed.







From left, Foday Gassama, Shyngle Nyassi and Fakebba

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Soaked to her throat, Lisa Jammeh blankly stared at the two strangers standing in front of her.
The two men she could not identify knocked at her door at late night hours of ten on Dec. 4 and asked about the whereabouts of her husband.
“When I told them my husband traveled to his native village in Kiang, they asked me to warn him to either stay away from politics or join ruling APRC else he will face a bitter consequence,” terrified Lisa Jammeh told The Daily News.
Her husband, Mr Fakebba Kolley is the campaign manager for main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP)in the Kiang West constituency.
An opposition stronghold that voted in one of the five opposition sponsored parliamentarians in Gambian National Assembly, provincial-Kiang West was the only constituency where Gambian president Yahya Jammeh had lost in 2006 polls.
But in the just concluded presidential election in which Jammeh re-emerged winner for a fourth term, Kiang West fell into the hands of the ruling APRC party, though the opposition has rejected the election results.
In spite of the electoral commission declared landslide victory to the ruling military-junta-turned-civilian APRC party, yet opposition supporters are receiving threats ahead the National Assembly elections due in March 2012.
Lisa’s husband, Mr Kolley, who doubles as the national youth secretary general of UDP claims to be a victim.
“My wife conveyed the threatening message to me when I was in Kiang, but I could not return right away because I was engaged,” Mr Kolley, who walked into the offices of
The Daily News said.
“On Monday December 7, I went to the mosque to say my early morning prayers and when I came back I found a letter addressed to me dropped at my compound gate,” he said.
The letter, a copy of which he has shown to this paper bears no signatory. Its content is threatening, but Mr Kolley insisted that he doesn’t feel threatened.
“I received a similar threat after the 2006 presidential election,” he said. “My daughter too was threatened and she fled the country after the 2006 polls. I last heard from her when she was in Sweden some two years ago.”
Fakebba’s daughter, Fatou Kolley is 26 years of age this year. And in the recent threatening letter, Kolley has been warned not to participate in the upcoming National Assembly election for his own safety and that of his family.
“You are even lucky that APRC won in Kiang West this year because (sic) your compound would have been bornt (sic) down,” reads the letter written in a bad english.
Similar life threatening messages were received by Mr Foday Gassama, a UDP sponsored candidate in Brikama Nyambia ward.
“Foday Gassama, you better learn from Kanyiba Kanyi because as UDP cordinator,(sic) you have no reason to oppose APRC,” reads a message sent to the him in his cell phone.
The yet-to-be identified sender using a cell phone number 7415158, warns him not to participate in the upcoming parliamentary election.
“If you ignore these advise, then your life is in danger,” the message reads further.
Like Fakebba Kolley, such life threatening message is not new to Mr Gassama though he is concerned.
“I received a similar message in 2010, on the vary day former Libyan leader Ghadafi, who was being hosted by president Jammeh was having a meeting with the country’s youths at the independence stadium,” he remembers.
Mr Shyngle Nyassi, the UDP chief propagandist is not spared. “Some unidentified callers have been calling me with a restricted number threatening on my life.
“My son, who was the agent of the party in Kanilai, the birth village of President Jammeh also received similar threats.
“No amount of threat can make me retreat,” the firebrand politician said, though when it comes to his family he is concerned. “I am concern about the live of my son and my family,” he said.
Meanwhile, The Daily News understands that Mr Colley and Gassama have both reported their matter to the police.
Fakebba, who resides in Nema Kunku village in Kombo North districts is having his residential area patrolled at night by some policemen ever since he reported the matter, this paper gathered.
Similarly, Mr Gassama has reported his case at the Brikama police station and was issued a reference number: D/Ref/Number/ 88/9/11. The phone number was called, but could not be reached. However, Mr Nyassi said he is yet to lodge complaint at the police because he could not still trace the callers.

Editor’s Note

We reproduced the letters below and deliberately refused to edit it to expose the level of those behind this clandestine, but familiar act towards opposition supporters in The Gambia.

Letter to Colley reads:

Dear Mr Colley

It is unfortunate that We Went (sic) to your compound to advice (sic) you but we were told that you went to Kiang. We have talked to your wife to advice (sic) you to keep away from poltic (they wanted to write politics) because you have no reason to oppose A.p.R.C.
We also understand that you work hand in hand with Mr Single Nyassi of Brikama Who (sic) is and enemy to A.P.R.C.
Mr Colley We Want (sic) you to be very careful and stop opposing A.P.R.C. We understand your political activities both in Kiang and Kombo here is too much. We are therefore advicing (sic) you to stop opposing the Government else you will face a serious consequence.
You are even lucky that A.P.R.C Won in Kiang West this year because your compound would have been bornt (sic: wrong spelling) down. We are advicing (sic) you not to participate in the coming National Assembly Election.
This may be risky at your side. This is our advice to you and we hope you will take it. It is better for you to keep away politics in the interest of your family before you loose your compound or separate from your family. Please be careful or join the ruling party for your own security. We are watching own you to see if you will take our advice.
Thank you

And the message to Gassama reads:

Foday Gassama, you better learn from Kanyiba Kanyi [disappeared under mysterious circumstances since 2006] because as UDP cordinator you have no reason to oppose APRC. Now is left to you to decide either not to participate for the coming National Assembly election (…). If you ignore these advise, then your life is in danger.


Author: Alhagie Ceesay OF THE GAMBIA DAILY NEWS.

How can these things happen yet president Jammeh pretends everything is ok? Something must be seriously wrong.

Gambia's Yahya Jammeh ready to rule for million years


President Yahya Jammeh has told the BBC that he will rule for "one billion years", if God wills.

He said critics who accused him of winning last month's elections through intimidation and fraud could "go to hell".

The West African regional body Ecowas said the electorate had been "cowed by repression".

Mr Jammeh, who took power in a coup in 1994, was re-elected with 72% of the figures, official figures show.

The 46 year old said he did not fear a fate similar to Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak or killed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

"My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah," he told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.

Journalist's death
"I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so."

The November poll was the fourth since Mr Jammeh overthrew 's first post-independence leader Dawda Jawara aged just 29.

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I will not bow down before anybody, except the almighty Allah and if they [human rights groups] don't like that can go to hell”

Yahya Jammeh
The Gambia's president
Opposition candidates Ousainou Darboe and Hamat Bah took 17% and 11% respectively.

Mr Darboe called the results "bogus, fraudulent and preposterous".

The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) refused to send observers, saying the polls would not be free and fair because voters and the opposition had been "cowed by repression and intimidation".

The media group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says there is "absolute intolerance of any form of criticism" in The Gambia, with death threats, surveillance and arbitrary night-time arrests the daily lot of journalists "who do not sing the government's praises".

In 2004, the editor of the privately owned The Point newspaper, Deyda Hydara, was gunned down, but no-one has been charged over his murder.

In the BBC interview, Mr Jammeh denied that the government's security agents had killed him.


President Yahya Jammeh Overthrew The Gambia's first president as a 29-year-old army lieutenant in 1994.Previously won three widely criticised elections
Accused of not tolerating opposition or independent journalists
Claimed in 2007 that he could cure Aids with a herbal concoction
Warned in 2008 that gay people would be beheaded
Eight men sentenced to death last year after being accused of plotting to overthrow him
When asked about Dayda Hydara's death, he said.

"Listen to me: Is he the only Gambian who died? Is he better than Gambians who die in accidents, Gambians who die at sea, Gambians who die on their way to Europe?" Mr Jammeh asked.

"Other people have also died in this country. So why is Deyda Hydara so special?"

Mr Jammeh said he was not bothered by the criticism of human rights groups.

"I will not bow down before anybody, except the almighty Allah and if they don't like that they can go to hell," he said.

In 2007, Mr Jammeh caused controversy by claiming that he could cure Aids with a herbal concoction.

Later, he also claimed that he could cure infertility among women.

Medical groups denounced him for making such claims.

The tiny West African state is a popular tourist destination.

HOW THE SO CALLED IEC HAS LIED TO GAMBIANS SINCE 1994



devil Alhagie mustapha Carayol has yet again stolen the wishes and aspirations of the Gambia people who voted on the 24th November 2011 to end Dictorship.
This Man has been used by the Gambian Dictator since the inception of the so called Independant Electoral Commission. He Carayol has been a member since and the Gambia dictator has sarked all previous members all of them except this same devil Mustapha Carayol. We are now able to find out why. Please read below.

8 August 1996 Constitutional Referendum
Main Points: Parliamentary Republic, Division of Powers, Lowering age of voter eligibility from 21 to 18

Registered Voters

447,062
Total Votes (Voter Turnout
(85.9%)
Invalid/Blank Votes
Votes non casted 123
063,103

Total Valid Votes 383,937
Total 670,336

Results Number of Votes % of Votes
"Yes" Votes 270,193 70.37%

"No" Votes 113,744 29.63%

26 September 1996 Presidential Election [Results by Administrative Area]
Registered Voters 670, 339
Total Votes (Voter Turnout) 394,537 (88.4%)
Invalid/Blank Votes 43 [See Note Below]

Total Valid Votes 394,494
Candidate (Party) Number of Votes % of Votes
Yahya Jammeh (APRC) 220,011 55.77%
Ousainou Darboe (UDP) 141,387 35.84%
Hamat Bah (NRP) 21,759 5.52%
Sidia Jatta (PDOIS) 11,337 2.87%

26 SEPTEMBER 1996 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Administrative Area Candidate (Party) Total Valid Votes Invalid Votes Total Votes Registered Voters Voter Turnout
Yahya Jammeh (APRC) Ousainou Darboe (UDP) Hamat Bah (NRP) Sidia Jatta(PDOIS)
Banjul 9,140 (61.84%) 5,017 (33.95%) 238 (1.61%) 384 (2.60%) 14,779 - 14,779 16,390 90.2%
Basse 32,499 (53.92%) 18,738 (31.09%) 4,959 (8.23%) 4,074 (6.76%) 60,270 - 60,270 70,301 85.7%
Brikama 60,382 (65.09%) 27,351 (29.49%) 3,257 (3.51%) 1,745 (1.88%) 92,735 26 92,761 101,036 91.8%
Janjanbureh 36,671 (54.24%) 22,053 (32.62%) 7,088 (10.48%) 1,796 (2.66%) 67,608 - 67,608 77,369 87.4%
Kanifing 40,443
(56.02%) 28,318 (39.23%) 1,507 (2.09%) 1,923 (2.66%) 72,191 - 72,191 83,839 86.1%
Kerewan 31,846 (53.69%) 23,257 (39.21%) 3,221 (5.43%) 985 (1.66%) 59,309 07 59,316 66,119 89.7%
Mansakonko 9,030 (32.70%) 16,653 (60.31%) 1,489 (5.39%) 430 (1.56%) 27,602 10 27,612 31,487 87.7%
National Total 220,011 (55.77%) 141,387 (35.84%) 21,759 (5.52%) 11,337 (2.87%) 394,494 43 394,537 446,541 88.4%


18 October 2001 Presidential Election
Registered Voters 670,306
Total Votes (Voter Turnout) (Approx. 90%)
Invalid/Blank Votes 168
Total Valid Votes 458,533
Candidate (Party) [Coalition] Number of Votes % of Votes
Yahya Jammeh (APRC) 242,302 52.84%
Ousainou Darboe (UDP) [UDP-PPP-GPP] 149,448 32.59%
Hamat Bah (NRP) 35,671 7.78%
Sheriff Mustapha Dibba (NCP) 17,271 3.77%
Sidia Jatta (PDOIS) 13,841 3.02%

The total number of votes 458, 533


22 SEPTEMBER 2006 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Administrative Area Candidate (Party) [Coalition] National Total
Yahya Jammeh (APRC) Ousainou Darboe (UDP) [ARC] Halifa Sallah (PDOIS) [NADD]
Number of Votes % Number of Votes % Number of Votes %
Banjul 7,908 69.09% 2,739 23.93% 799 6.98% 11,446
Basse 36,009 61.79% 15,092 25.90% 7,180 12.31% 58,281
Brikama 77,831 74.38% 23,147 22.12% 3,655 3.49% 104,633
Janjanbureh38,234 62.94% 19,527 32.15% 2,983 4.91% 60,744
Kanifing 47,490 63.75% 21,496 28.86% 5,503 7.39% 74,489
Kerewan 40,733 74.98% 10,833 19.94% 2,761 5.08% 54,327
Mansakonko 16,199 56.31% 11,974 41.63% 592 2.06% 28,765

Total Valid Votes 264,404 67.33% 104,808 26.69% 23,473 5.98% 392,685
Invalid Votes N/A
Total Votes N/A
Registered Voters 670,336
Voter Turnout approx. 59






2011 NOVEMBER POLLS
Registered Voters 796, 929
Total Valid Votes 657,787
Invalid/Blank Votes 264
Non votes 12, 288

Total 670, 336

code
Constituency
APRC Y. Jammeh UDP O. Darboe Independent H. Bah %
Turn-out
101 Banjul South 3,562 801 631 80%
102 Banjul Central 5,550 998 625 84%
103 Banjul North 3,649 1,110 490 82%

TOTAL 12,761 2,909 1,746


201 Bakau 8,260 4,292 1,069 86%
202 Jeshwang 16,105 5,590 2,950 82%
203 Serrekunda West 23,779 6,520 4,974 80%
204 Serrekunda Central 27,754 7,873 5,134 79%
205 Serekunda East 27,992 11,352 5,150 81%

TOTAL 96,890 35,627 19,277 81%



301 Foni Jarrol 2,379 139 227 87%
302 Foni Bondali 3,047 28 78 91%
303 Foni Bintang 6,811 247 186 93%
304 Foni Kansala 6,194 36 59 91%
305 Foni Brefet 6,218 315 325 91%

306 Kombo East 13,749 1,967 1,092 82%
307 Kombo South 24,949 6,974 3,434 86%
308 Kombo Central 31,503 9,817 4,462 85%
309 Kombo North 61,173 18,415 11,404 83%

TOTAL 156,023 37,938 21,267 85%


401 Lower Niumi 14,666 1,548 1,842 85%
402 Upper Niumi 9,020 1,029 1,116 88%
403 Jokadu 6,459 815 773 88%
404 Lower Baddibu 4,921 1,801 647 83%
405 Central Baddibu 5,096 1,713 635 84%
406 Illiassa 11,589 2,811 875 79%
407 Sabach Sanjal 7,317 505 907 84%


TOTAL 59,068 10,222 6,795 84%


501 Jarra West 7,394 2,923 714 81%
502 Jarra Central 2,705 354 286 85%
503 Jarra East 4,405 1,056 441 81%
504 Kiang East 2,487 852 73 85%
505 Kiang Central 3,331 1,033 360 86%
506 Kiang West 5,947 2,234 179 90%

TOTAL 26,269 8,452 2,053 84%



601 Janjanbureh 1,050 202 54 76%
602 Niamina West 1,967 280 694 84%
603 Niamina East 6,525 832 595 85%
604 Niamina Dankunku 1,773 102 422 83%

605 Lower Fulladu West 13,202 3,153 1,419 81%
606 Upper Fulladu West 11,347 2,086 1,222 81%
607 Lower Saloum 4,543 202 1,670 83%
608 Upper Saloum 4,765 98 2,808 84%
609 Niani 7,213 1,502 1,003 82%
610 Nianija 2,239 143 1,072 83%
611 Sami 5,099 2,697 830 85%



TOTAL 59,723 11,062 12,026 83%


701 Jimara 11,612 1,522 1,223 69%
702 Basse 10,762 1,697 1,257 73%
703 Tumana 8,601 1,895 903 80%
704 Kantora 11,478 854 771 77%
705 Sandu 6,955 835 1,233 79%
706 Wulli West 5,346 620 2,014 84%
707 Wulli East 5,062 544 2,495 80%

TOTAL 59,816 7,967 9,896 77%


GRAND TOTAL 470,550 114,177 73,060 83%

I hate the way they killed Gaddafi


Bamba's analyses:
No matter how I may have hated Gaddafi and his brutal inhuman rule against Libyans with his crimes against humanity against Africa and other parts of the world, as human beings Libyans should have never allowed themselves be brought low to the level of the tyrant even out of anger.
The way Gaddafi, was dragged even after his surrender and brutally killed live on video reminds me of prince Johnson's murder of former Liberian Dictator Samuel Doe on camera. How can the NTC allow such a thing to happen? I thought they would have brought Gaddafi to trial even in a sharia way as he calls himself a Muslim and if found guilty hanged or punished according to his own faith there then the Libyans and Africans who were victims of Gaddafi can claim victory.
Now as things stand, the NTC has failed to assert its authority and I want to from now on watch them from the fence. I only hope they proof me wrong.

this is what(Reuters) Tim Gaynor reports from SIRTE,in Libya (Gaddafi's Home town) about the moment Gaddafi was captured:

Disturbing images of a blood-stained and shaken Muammar Gaddafi being dragged around by angry fighters quickly circulated around the world after the Libyan dictator's dramatic death near his home town of Sirte.

The exact circumstances of his demise are still unclear with conflicting accounts of his death emerging. But the footage, possibly of the last chaotic moments of Gaddafi's life, offered some clues into what happened.

Gaddafi was still alive when he was captured near Sirte. In the video, filmed by a bystander in the crowd and later aired on television, Gaddafi is shown being dragged off a vehicle's bonnet and pulled to the ground by his hair.

"Keep him alive, keep him alive!" someone shouts. Gunshots then ring out. The camera veers off.

"They captured him alive and while he was being taken away, they beat him and then they killed him," one senior source in the NTC told Reuters. "He might have been resisting."

In what appeared to contradict the events depicted in the video, Libya's ruling National Transitional Council said Gaddafi was killed when a gunfight broke out after his capture between his supporters and government fighters. He died from a bullet wound to the head, the prime minister said.

The NTC said no order had been given to kill him.

Gaddafi called the rebels who rose up against his 42 years of one-man rule "rats," but in the end it appeared that it was he who was captured cowering in a drainage pipe full of rubbish and filth.

"He called us rats, but look where we found him," said Ahmed Al Sahati, a 27-year-old government fighter, standing next to two stinking drainage pipes under a six-lane highway near Sirte.

On the ground, government fighters described scenes of sheer carnage as they told stories of Gaddafi's final hours.

Shortly before dawn prayers, Gaddafi, surrounded by a few dozen loyal bodyguards and accompanied by the head of his now non-existent army Abu Bakr Younis Jabr, broke out of the two-month siege of Sirte and made a break for the west.

They did not get far.

France said its aircraft struck military vehicles belonging to Gaddafi forces near Sirte at about 8:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. ET), but said it was unsure whether the strikes had killed Gaddafi. A NATO official said the convoy was hit either by a French plane or a U.S. Predator drone.

Two miles west of Sirte, 15 pick-up trucks mounted with machine guns lay burned out, smashed and smoldering next to an electricity substation 20 meters from the main road.

They had clearly been hit by a force far beyond anything the motley army the former rebels has assembled during eight months of revolt to overthrow the once feared leader.

But there was no bomb crater, indicating the strike may have been carried out by a fighter jet.

Inside the trucks still in their seats sat the charred skeletal remains of drivers and passengers killed instantly by the strike. Other bodies lay mutilated and contorted strewn across the grass. Some 50 bodies in all.

"MY MASTER IS HERE"

Fighters on the ground said Gaddafi and a handful of his men appeared to have run through a stand of trees and taken refuge in the two drainage pipes.

"At first we fired at them with anti-aircraft guns, but it was no use," said Salem Bakeer, while being feted by his comrades near the road. "Then we went in on foot.

"One of Gaddafi's men came out waving his rifle in the air and shouting surrender, but as soon as he saw my face he started shooting at me," he told Reuters.

"Then I think Gaddafi must have told them to stop. 'My master is here, my master is here', he said, 'Muammar Gaddafi is here and he is wounded'," said Bakeer.

"We went in and brought Gaddafi out. He was saying 'what's wrong? What's wrong? What's going on?'. Then we took him and put him in the car," Bakeer said.

At the time of his capture, Gaddafi was already wounded with gunshots to his leg and to his back, Bakeer said.

Other government fighters who said they took part in Gaddafi's capture, separately confirmed Bakeer's version of events, though one said the man who ruled Libya for 42 years was shot and wounded at the last minute by one of his own men.

"One of Muammar Gaddafi's guards shot him in the chest," said Omran Jouma Shawan.

There were also other versions of events. NTC official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters Gaddafi had been finally cornered in a compound in Sirte after hours of fighting, and wounded in a gun battle with NTC forces.

He said Gaddafi kept repeating "What is the matter? What's going on? What do you want?" and resisted as NTC fighters seized him. He added that Gaddafi died of his wounds as he was being transported in an ambulance.

"He was bleeding from his stomach. It took a long time to transport him. He bled to death (in the ambulance)," he said.

Another NTC official, speaking to Reuters anonymously, gave a violent account of Gaddafi's death: "They (NTC fighters) beat him very harshly and then they killed him. This is a war."

Video footage showed Gaddafi, dazed and wounded, but still clearly alive and as he was dragged from the front of a pick-up truck by a crowd of angry jostling government soldiers who hit him and pulled his hair to drag him to the ground.

He then appeared to fall to the ground and was enveloped by the crowd. NTC officials later announced Gaddafi had died of his wounds after capture.

Someone in the crowd shouted "keep him alive, keep him alive," but another fighter cried out in a high pitched crazed scream. Gaddafi then goes out of view and gunshots are heard.

Further footage showed what appeared to be Gaddafi's lifeless body being loaded into an ambulance in Sirte.

One of the fighters who said he took part in the capture brandished a heavily engraved golden pistol he said he had taken from Gaddafi.

Fallen electricity cables partially covered the entrance to the pipes and the bodies of three men, apparently Gaddafi bodyguards lay at the entrance to one end, one in shorts probably due to a bandaged wound on his leg.

Four more bodies lay at the other end of the pipes. All black men, one had his brains blown out, another man had been decapitated, his dreadlocked head lying beside his torso.

Army chief Jabr was also captured alive, Bakeer said. NTC officials later announced he was dead.

Joyous government fighters fired their weapons in the air, shouted "Allahu Akbar" and posed for pictures. Others wrote graffiti on the concrete parapets of the highway. One said simply: "Gaddafi was captured here."

SIMILARITIES BETWEEN GADDAFI AND GAMBIA’S YAHYA JAMMEH


SIMILARITIES BETWEEN
GADDAFI AND GAMBIA’S YAHYA JAMMEH:
Compiled by Bamba Mass (Human Rights Activist UK)
In November 1994 Four months after Gambia’s July military coup in the Gambia, full diplomatic relations with Libya were restored after 15 years of hostile relations between ousted President Dawda Jawara and Colonel Muamar Ghaddafi after a visit to tripoli by the Junta vice chairman Sana B Sabally, and the Gambians received an immediate grant of $35 million in total from Libya with $ 15 million first through the Libyan diplomat and $20million when the leader of the Libyan Al Fateh Revolution and current Chairman of the African Union His Excellency Maumar Al Gaddafi will visit The Gambia from today Tuesday 21st July, 2009 to Thursday 23rd July, 2009 as Special Guest of Honour at the 15th Anniversary of the July 22nd Revolution .
Since then The Gambia became a province of Libya see the similarities in Jammeh’s rule to that of his boss Gaddafi!
Both choose GREEN as color of their revolution and Libyan Green Revolution became a copy of the Gambian July 22nd Revolution. Everything is the same as we shall find out!.
COLONEL MOAMAR GADDAFI:
He was a Bedouin tribesman born from the fifth largest tribe from the village of Serte east of the capital tripoli. A womanizing colonel and a self-styled revolutionary who appear to his people as God sent to save them. He is an Arab and an African, a thief nationalist and a socialist, a so called Muslim, a poet and a would-be "philosopher king". Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya – literally, the state of the masses", and organized a system of revolutionary or people's committees in every town, village, factory and farm that became the de facto enforcers of the new regime's diktat.

LT. COLONEL RTD. YAHYA A.J.J JAMMEH:
He is a Jola tribesman from the fourth largest tribe from the village of Kanilai east/north of the capital Banjul. A womanizing Lt. Col (retired), and self styled revolutionary who appears to his people as God sent to save them. A thief nationalist and a so called Muslim, a poet and would be “philosopher king”, a fake African freedom fighter, farmer and like Libya, Jammeh brought his “the power to the people” slogan, created development committees chaired by Libyan trained green Boys and back to land policies setting up farms for the president in all parts of the country where selected chiefs would force people to work on.

LIBYA UNDER GADDAFI:
The Gaddafi regime increasingly betrayed the promises and gains of the 1969 revolution. “Ongoing efforts to restructure and modernize the Central Bank of Libya has drastically failed with corruption on the increase while Gaddafi loyalist plunged the state resources and most became billionaires within a short space of time” The International Monetary Fund said in a February 15 report: “An ambitious program to privatize banks and develop the nascent financial sector failed. Banks have been privatized, interest rates increased, and no encouragement of competition.
The IMF noted positively the “passing in early 2010 of a number of far-reaching laws bodes well for fostering private sector development and attracting foreign direct investment”.
GAMBIA UNDER JAMMEH:
Yahya Jammeh did a similar Green Revolution in the Gambia betraying the promises and gains in the 1994 revolution. Apart from the cessation of aid, however, the international community remained fairly mute. The Gambia's lack of economic resources meant that, internationally, it lacked political influence and importance. By July 3, 1995, the economy had deteriorated to such an extent that, during his budget speech, the Finance Minister expressed fears that the Gambian economy was on the brink of collapse. Such revelations led was made despite a former minister of the same office was found dead in his car in the middle of nowhere with rumors he refused to lie about the deteriorating condition of the economy which led to him to his death.
LIBYA UNDER GADDAFI:
During those 40th anniversary celebrations, you can guarantee you won't hear much about two high profile Libyan prisoners -- albeit from opposite ends of the political spectrum -- who died within a couple of weeks of one another earlier this year. You've got to hand it to The second man was Libya's most prominent political dissident, Fathi al-Jahmi, who died on May 20 in a Jordanian hospital where he was flown in a coma after years of imprisonment and brutal torture in Tripoli for criticizing Qaddafi and for calling for greater freedoms for Libyans.
Gaddafi - he does not discriminate in his repression.
Senior al-Qaeda militant Ali Mohammed Abdel-Aziz al-Fakheri, better known by his nom de guerre Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, had been rendered to Egypt where he was tortured, after which the U.S. handed him over to Libya, which sentenced him to life in the desert prison of Abu Salim, where he reportedly hanged himself in May.
Remember those two men you think of Gaddafi’s brutality to his people.
GAMBIA UNDER JAMMEH:
Jammeh too never discriminate in his repression. Gambia’s most senior official Osman Koro Ceesay who died in a mysterious circumstance on the 23 June 1995 while when he when to see off President Yahya Jammeh who left for Ethiopia to attend the African Union Meeting.
President Yaya Jammeh in trying to set up a media commission with the power to shut down newspapers and imprison reporters who refused to register, and after pressure from journalists, led by Hydara, managing editor and co-owner of the independent newspaper The Point, as well as a correspondent for Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Reporters without Borders (RSF), the law was dropped on December 13. With fury about not getting his way, he threatened to bury journalists "six-feet deep".
When asked about journalists criticising his attempts to force them to register, he told the state radio that he believed in "giving each fool a long rope to hang themselves". Journalists, he went on should "either register or stop writing or go to hell". After prolonged tension between authorities and the Gambia's independent press, Mr. Hydara was gunned down by unidentified men shot in the head and chest by assailants while he drove home from his office and killed while two of his female staff with him sustained serious injuries.
Remember those two men as you think of Yahya Jammeh’s brutality to his people.
LIBYA UNDER GADDAFI:
The Gaddafi regime said it provided its citizens with free education and health, though quality and access was uneven. Tellingly, Libyans who could afford it preferred to go to neighboring Tunisia or Europe.
GAMBIA UNDER JAMMEH:
The Jammeh regime said it provide its citizens with free education for girls and has built hospitals across the country. But in reality, there are in fact not quality educations though quantity in number of school but a sixth form student cannot write a simple letter while compared to secondary forth pre 1994 revolution. Health services is worst with traditional clinic of president Yahya Jammeh at his home village in Kanilai more equipped with electricity than the main Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital.
LIBYA UNDER GADDAFI:
His intelligence service was the most feared with its head quarters built with inside underground prisons where opponents of the regime were tortured and killed. Some Gaddafi opponents who disappeared from the face of the earth are thought to have disappeared here. On countless occasions, Col Gaddafi’s men are forcing their way into private dwellings onto unsuspecting families wreaking havoc onto their lives with insane shootings and indiscriminate rape.

GAMBIA UNDER JAMMEH:
His National Intelligent Agency the most feared and notorious for disappearances of opponents of Jammeh are common. In most cases people taken inside and lucky to come out are too scared to speak even to family members of their ordeal. Probably only a few dared speak out about what they went through and one of those was the former Inspector General of Police Ensa Badgie who begged the Judge not to allow the tortures to continue crying in a crowded court
UDP opposition supporter Ousman Ceesay who was slaughtered by security forces in broad daylight at the Tallinding Market on the eve of the 2001 Presidential elections. Was belief to have been shot by a rebel from Cassamance who now work in Jammeh’s inner circle. They are members of his Jola tribe.
Kebutay Jafuneh, Sedia Sanyang and Lamin Sanneh both UDP opposition Supporters both died of trauma following brutal pummeling and torture behind the harrowing walls of Mile II Prisons and the NIA head Quarters.
Gambia and Libya under the two identical Tyrants: Twinning!
In their efforts to twin the Gambia and Libya, first phase towns to be twinned was the town of Shabbah in Libya and the community Village of Saaba in the Lower Badibou District in North Bank Region. At the launching, both the commissioner of North bank Alhaji Edwarn Seckan and the Libyan Ambassador to the Gambia Dukaly, both underscored the importance their government attaches to the promotion of the welfare of their citizens by complementing their government’s socio-economic development and enhancements their leaders attached to attainment of food security. Libyan ambassador used the opportunity to inform the governor of his Embassy’s plans and noted that the twining of the two communities would create an avenue to share cultural, economic and religious ties in order to contribute to the improvement of livelihood of both the communities. Commenting on the technical cooperation between the two countries, Ambassador Dukaly said the Embassy plans to invest in agriculture of 10, 000 hectares of both irrigation and upland cultivation, out of which North Bank Region would benefit from the 5,000 hectares. He assured that his office would support the Arabic school in the community of Saaba, in a drive to promote the teaching of Islam, and inculcating good morale in the children. The Libyan ambassador also visited the Saaba Arabic School and held talks with teachers and the community.
He later attended the inauguration of a mosque in Jokadu Karantaba. Speaking at the occasion, the governor Seckan commended the Libyan ambassador and their Embassy on behalf of the people and government of The Gambia for their steadfastness in complementing government’s development aspirations. Governor Seckan assured him of his office's fullest support towards the implementation of the Embassy’s development efforts in improving the livelihood of people at grassroot level.
NOW! WHAT YAHYA JAMMEH HAD TURNED GAMBIA INTO!
May 27, 2009 (The Daily Observer/All Africa Global Media) -- The scourge of HIV/Aids, which has remained a nightmare for the rest of humanity, has become a thing of the past in The Gambia.
This would not have been so without the great efforts of the admirable figure in the person of His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, who continues to strive hard in his own capacity to provide cure for this deadly disease. It is over two years now since Professor Jammeh took the bull by the horn and proved to the rest of the world that wonderful things can come out from The Gambia, one of the smallest countries on the continent of Africa. This is supposed to be a pride for Africans as it is Africa which bears the brunt of the epidemic, not only in terms of the number of people living with the disease, but also the number of people who have to take care of infected relatives, orphaned children and so on.

Dr Tamsir Mbowe, the chief medical director of the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH), is the director general of the president`s treatment programme. He recalled that there was extreme joy surrounding the Breakthrough when the first CD4 counts results were announced on 17 June 2007. This, he said, served as the first proof of Professor Jammeh`s treatment success. “I was filled with joy and happiness when the results came out, showing and proving the effectiveness of the president`s treatment. With those results, he said, it was a proof to the whole world that finally, a cure has been discovered. It also meant that President Jammeh had picked up a huge global fight on behalf of the Gambian people and humanity at large in the form of treating HIV/Aids.

For Dr Mbowe, this development is a gift to President Jammeh by Almighty Allah. “Allah gave him the knowledge and talent to cure people living with the disease,” he said, adding that knowledge is a natural gift from God to man and that once given to any individual; they should be respected and commended.

Lamenting on the president`s sympathy for humanity, he said: “I could see the love and sympathy that he has for his patients. He is very passionate with his patients. He cares for them a lot. All patients that have undergone his treatment really appreciate the help and love he showed them. Thousands of people, he said, has benefited from the treatment. Many are now aware and convinced about the treatment. They know that there is a cure, and there are more patients now than before.”

Dr Mbowe urged Gambians and all good thinking people to continue praying for the president, calling on individuals, institutions, and parastatals to support the treatment program considering the cost involved “It is not only Gambians who benefit from this treatment. People are coming from all over the world,” he said, while commending Gambians and the entire medical team for their hard work and determination towards the treatment programme.

WHAT GADDAFI HAD TURNED LIBYA INTO!
4 March, two weeks after Misrata rose up to defy Gaddafi, signed by the general he put in charge of the operation to quell the protest: Yousef Ahmed Basheer Abu Hajar. Addressed to the "fighting formations", which had by then cut all roads into the city, it issues a blunt instruction: "It is absolutely forbidden for supply cars, fuel and other services to enter the city of Misrata from all gates and checkpoints."
Or, to put it more bluntly, he ordered his army to inflict starvation on every man, woman and child in Misrata.
Another document, bearing the stamp of Gaddafi's Anti-Terrorism Committee – his inner circle of commanders – instructs forces to hunt down two wounded rebels who had fled to the neighbouring town of Zlitan, a clear violation of the guarantees of the Geneva conventions that demand protection for wounded combatants.
There are other documents, not to be revealed to the press – at least, not until a trial is in open court – that reveal Gaddafi's generals giving orders to smash rebel centers, regardless of causing civilian casualties.
"We have lots of evidence that Gaddafi wanted all of Misrata gone," said Misratan war crimes investigator Khalid Alwab, 35. "We have him [Gaddafi] saying he wanted the people of Taruga [the town to the west] and Zlitan [the town to the east] to each take half. He says that he wanted to turn the blue sea red."
Lt. Col. John Bryan of the US Air Force said Wednesday that Khamis Gadhafi, son of Col. Gaddafi, got a standard VIP tour of the school on Feb. 7 – eight days before the Libyan uprising began.
YAHYA JAMMEH INTENDS TO CERCRIFISE AS MANY GAMBIAN AS POSSIBLE

JAMBUR, Gambia -- This tiny West African nation`s citizens have grown familiar with the unpredictable exploits of its absolute ruler, who insists on being called His Excellency President Professor Dr. Al-Haji Yahya Jammeh: his herbs-and-banana cure for AIDS, his threat to behead gays, his mandate that only he can drive through the giant arch commemorating his coup in the moldering capital, Banjul, and his ubiquitous grinning portrait posted along roadsides.

Not to mention the documented disappearances, torture and imprisonment of dozens of journalists and political opponents.

But then came a campaign so confounding and strange that the citizens are still reeling and sickened from it, literally, weeks after it apparently ended.

The president, it seems, had become concerned about witches in this country of mango trees, tropical scrub, dirt roads, innumerable police checkpoints and Atlantic coastline frequented by sun-seeking European tourists mostly unaware of the activities at nearby Mile 2 State Central Prison, where many opponents of the regime are taken.

To the accompaniment of drums, and directed by men in red tunics bedecked with mirrors and cowries shells, dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Gambians were taken from their villages and driven by bus to secret locations. There they were forced to drink a foul-smelling concoction that made them hallucinate, gave them severe stomach pains, induced some to try digging a hole in a tiled floor, made others try climbing up a wall and in some cases killed them, according to the villagers themselves.

The objective was to root out witches, evil sorcerers who were harming the country, the villagers were told. Terrified, dozens of other people fled into the bush or across the border into Senegal to escape the dragnet, villagers said, leaving whole regions deserted. Amnesty estimates that at least six people died after being forced to drink the potion, whose composition is unknown.

The roundups occurred from late January through March, according to people here. But even in recent weeks, the same witch doctors in red, accompanied by others identified as government agents, have circulated in the dirt-poor countryside

Yet the testimonies are numerous, and experts on this former British colony have little doubt that the witch hunts occurred, and on the scale described.

On the teeming streets of Serrekunda, a suburb of Banjul, people expressed fear. “All of them are opposition, but they are not talking, because if you are talking, you are going to the police,” said Lalo Jaiteh, a building contractor, gesturing nervously at a bustling row of vendors.

“This stigma will follow us into our grave,” said Dembo Jariatou Bojang, the village development committee chairman in Jambur, a dusty town 15 miles from the capital. “We will never forget this.”
He said he was taken, along with about 60 others, after being assembled in the village square, attracted by the beating of the drums. Driven by bus to a place they did not recognize, Mr. Jariatou Bojang was made to drink and bathe in the foul liquid.

“My head is still paining sometimes,” Mr. Jariatou Bojang said.

As he spoke, an elderly man sitting on the floor of the village imam`s house shook his head uncontrollably from side to side. The men in the room said the symptom developed after drinking that connotation smelling liquid.

Omar Bojang, the son of the imam, Karamo Bojang, recalled being told to undress, and ordered to drink “filthy water from a tin.”

“Once you drink that, you become unconscious, you can`t think,” he said.

Forty miles away in the village of Bintang, Mamadou Kanteh, a fisherman, recounted the visit of the men in red several weeks ago. “It`s the president who sent us,`” Mr. Kanteh recalled their saying. “`There are witches in the country who are hurting people, and killing people`” they said. They demanded the sacrifice of a red goat and a rooster.
The imam of Bintang recalled drawing about $40 from the village treasury to pay for the animals, which were slaughtered at the graveyard beyond the town`s unlighted dirt streets.

In Serrekunda the largest city near the capital Banjul, pedestrians hastened away when asked about the president.

“Human right is not here right now said Yaya Gassama, said in halting English.”

Karamo Bojang, left, shown with his wife, is an imam in the village of Jambur, where about 60 people were rounded up and forced to drink a noxious liquid.;. Residents of Jambur say they were accused of sorcery. Billboards depicting President Yahya Jammeh are ubiquitous in every part of Gambia, where his unpredictable dictatorship inspires fear.

GADDAFI INTENDS TO KILL AS MANY LIBYANS AS POSSIBLE

The number of people who have been killed so far has spiralled to over 15,000. Another 45,000 people are estimated to have been injured. This is genocide pure and simple.

The terror is unbelievable. People are holed up in their houses or, worse, in uninhabitable crowded hideouts wherever they manage to seek shelter. If they leave their house, even in the capital Tripoli, they risk being shot on suspicion of being friendly to the rebels.

This obscene criminal offence is being used as a weapon by the regime. Many women are being systematically raped by Col Gaddafi’s men and, at times, entire families are raped, including men and children. Women who are raped often end up victims of so-called “honour killings” at the hands of their own families who would rather kill them than live with the dishonour. So either way, you are dead.
The regime still relies heavily on “imported” mercenaries. They are typically combatants from other African countries and include members of the Republican Guard of Chad. Mercenaries were also brought in from as far as Colombia in Latin America.
Col Gaddafi was banking on retaking Misurata, the closest city to Malta, geographically speaking. He hoped that, with this city under his control, he would hold on to the western part of the country and, at worse, only have to give up the eastern side that is dominated by Benghazi. His plan was foiled by the proud inhabitants of Misurata who fought him off managing to hang on against all odds, not least thanks to humanitarian supplies shipped from Malta.
A number of ministers have long defected, whether to lead the struggle to depose Col Gaddafi or simply to flee the country, typically via Djerba in Tunisia. But a number of ministers are still held up in government quarters and blackmailed to hang on with the regime on pain of retribution against their families. Nevertheless, they do not exercise any effective power. The real power lies with the Gaddafi family. The Colonel’s sons are deemed to be omnipotent demigods who can do whatever they like regardless of whether it is lawful or not. Before the popular uprising started many of us had hoped that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi would turn out to be the “moderate” successor of his father. We were all proved wrong as he has since dropped his mask and revealed his true colours.
These have been banned by the regime since the Colonel took power in a coup d’état in 1969. Forget about freedom to protest. It does not exist.
In a country where petrol was virtually free, its price has now skyrocketed from 20c a litre to some $5. People queue for several days to be able to fill up and, when they do, the provisions are rationed. Obviously, people want to fill their cars to flee to the borders.
After Col Gaddafi. The National Transitional Council wants to set up a transitional government leading to national democratic elections.
They insist that the country belongs to everyone and a national reconciliation process will be undertaken in order to heal the wounds. Sympathisers of the regime who did not commit any criminal offences have nothing to fear. Of course, these claims will need to be examined by the international community in due course.
So far, 15 countries have recognised the National Transitional Council as the “sole interlocutor” in Libya. Malta is among them.
Many countries around the world, including Malta, have blocked funds and assets belonging to the Gaddafi regime. Lest we forget, the Gaddafi family used to consider Libya’s immense wealth as its own personal assets. But these funds have still not been channelled to the National Transitional Council, which is in desperate need of money to finance its operations. Nor can the Council use funds from the sale of oil because refineries are blocked or held by the regime.
Humanitarian aid. There is an urgent need of humanitarian aid in Benghazi and in refugee camps on the borders with Egypt and Tunisia.
The European Union has already earmarked some €100 million in humanitarian aid. But it is not clear how much of this is actually translating into supplies, especially for hospitals in places like Benghazi where the situation is desperate.
Conclusion!
Now, an Africa that not many even knew about, with decades of tyranny and misrule, from Libya in the Sahara Desert to Gambia in the tropical Savanna, the citizens of these regions are rising up and saying enough is enough.
The truth is would the world now look back and wait till things get out of hand in the Gambia before they turn against the tyrant there.
Please don’t make the oppressed world belief what a 19th Century British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston famously observed: “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual…”
God save the people of the Gambia as HE did to Libyans!
By Bamba Mass.

Last Days of an African Terrorist.Libya is free



Col. Muhmar Gaddafi almost in hiding, while some of his sons Muhammad, and Saadi captured by the rebels who have overran tripoli and took over his compound Baul azaziya, his seat of terror rul for four decades and yet the terrorist leader is no where to be found He is Africa's longest serving ruler who led a rebellion against the regime of former king Asanusi, 42 years ago. Gaddafi has been responsible for most coups in Africa either fully sponsoring them or backing them with Libyan oil money while his people sterve and many remained unemployed.He has turned Africa and the African Union which he sometimes single handedly funded into his own while the Union became his mouth piece. All African despotic leaders were scared of him as most regard him as master. But that is what thieves do to eachother when the going gets tough.Today, most of those leaders who were his boy boys have now abandoned him. Even the tiny west African nation of Gambia whose leader Yahya Jammeh coppied most of his iron ruling styles from him have deserted him instead openly supporting his rivals the NTC. The tiny Gambia was Gadaffi's backyard with green plag and revolutional idea roaming in evey corner.Gaddafi made the Gambia what it is today but the Gambian regime he backed when they were indire need of support today betrayed him.
There is no where for the brutal devil to hide not even under the wings of his created tiny brutal thugs like Yahya Jammeh. All his creatures in Africa are making a big calculation and have no time to think of what happens to their master.

Family Ties in Dictatorships best looters of their countries’ wealth


Family Ties in Dictatorships best looters of their countries’ wealth
Compiled and Edited by Bamba Mass (Human Rights Activist UK)
August 11, 2011 | Filed under: ADI |
Source: African Dictators.
You don’t have to draw up a family tree for a dictator- often their entire government, as well as other officials and key industries are run by their families and Tribesmen/women. Sometimes this leads to dynastic succession, as in the case of Gnassingbe Eydema and his son Faure, Omar Bongo and his son, Ali Ondimba, Lauren desire Kabila and son Joseph Kabila and others are trying to follow suit. Take a look at some of the First Families of Africa, and see the trend for yourself:
Angola:
The dos Santos – Van-Dúnem Family
José Eduardo dos Santos (President of Angola, 1979 – today)
• Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos ‘Nandó’ (cousin of José Eduardo dos Santos; Vice-President of Angola, 2010–today; Speaker of the National Assembly 2008-2010; Prime Minister 2002-2008)
• Isabel dos Santos (daughter of José Eduardo dos Santos; investor; owner of key mobile phone operator and bank, richest woman in Angola
• Cândido Pereira dos Santos Van-Dúnem (cousin of the president and Kopelipa and Jose Vieira Dias Van-Dunem; Defence Minister).
• José Vieira Dias Van-Dúnem (cousin of Kopelipa; Health Minister)
• Gen. Manuel Hélder Vieira Dias ‘Kopelipa’ (Minister of State and Chief of the Military Bureau of the President)
• Carlo Alberto Lopes (Finance Minister, brother-in-law of the president)
• Luzia Inglês Van-Dúnem Secretary-General of OMA, the women’s mass movement of the ruling party MPLA
o Afonso Van-Dúnem M’Binda (Husband of Luzia Inglês Van-Dúnem; Minister of External Relations 1985–1988)
o Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem (cousin of Kopelipa; Prime Minister 1991-1992; 1996-1999)
o Pedro de Castro Van Dúnem, 1942-1997 (Minister of External Relations of Angola 1989–1992; Minister of Public Works and Urban Affairs 1992–1997)
Burkina Faso:
The Compaoré Family
Blaise Compaoré (President of Burkina Faso, 1987-present) who betrayed and killed his best friend Thomas Sankara just to become president.
• François Compaoré (economic advisor; brother of Blaise Compaoré)
• Simon Compaoré (Mayor of Ouagadougou)
• Jean-Marie Compaoré (Archbishop of Burkina Faso)
• Jean-Baptiste Compaoré (Finance minister)
• Franck Compaoré brother of president (Head of secret agency protecting the president)
• Chantal Compaoré (First lady; wife of Blaise Compaoré and daughter of felix Boigny first president of Ivory coast)
• Félix Houphouet-Boigny (former president of Côte d’Ivoire; father of Chantal Compaoré)

Cameroon
Paul Biya president of Cameroon (“assets stolen by this leader could range between 105 and 180 billion dollars) world’s most corrupt country” in 1998 and 1999
• FRANK Biya, son of the president (and owner of the largest business empire UTC a possible successor to his father)
• Paul BIYA Junior son of the president (owner of multibillion castles in Germany and France
• Anastasia Brenda BIYA EYENGA.( Bride of the richest man of Cameroon and herself a billion tycoon)
• Jeanne-Irène Biya first wife of President Paul Biya reportedly killed by Biya aides
• First lady Chantal Biya (founder of the Chantal Biya Foundation; African Synergy against AIDS and suffering; Circle of friends of Cameroon (CERAC), and the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.)
• Marafa Hammidou Yaya, cousin of Paul Biya (the current Minister of State in charge of Territorial Administration and Decentralization. Having also served as the Minister of State, Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic).

DRC
The Kabila Family (father-son)
• Laurent-Désiré Kabila (President, 1997–2001)
o Joseph Kabila (President, 2001 – )
The Kabila family is also related by marriage to the Sassou-Nguesso and Bongo families of the Republic of the Congo and Gabon, respectively.
Djibouti
The Aptidon-Guelleh Family
Hassan Gouled Aptidon (President of Djibouti, 1977–1999)
o Ismail Omar Guelleh (nephew of Hassan Gouled Aptidon; President of Djibouti, 1999– )
Equatorial Guinea
The Nguema Family (close relatives)
Francisco Macías Nguema (President, 1968–1979)
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo nephew of the assassinated president (President, 1979–)
• Ela Nguema (presidential aide)
• Eyegue Ntutumu (governor of Río Muni)
• Masie Ntutumu (minister of interior)
• Bonifacio Nguema Esono Nchama (vice president)
• Oyono Ayingono (finance minister)
• Maye Ela (head of the navy)
• Feliciano Oyono (leader of Macías’ PUNT party)
• Teodorín Nguema Obiang (forestry minister)
• Constancia Mangue de Obiang (first lady)
• Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue (infrastructure minister)
• Armengol Ondo Nguema (director of security)
• Antonio Mba Nguema (police chief)
• Agustín Ndong Ona (military inspector-general)
• Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima (mining minister)
• Demetrio Elo Ndong Nsefumu (first deputy prime minister)
• Alejandro Evuna Owono Asangono (chief of the presidency)
• Marcelino Oyono Ntutumu (transport minister)
• Lucas Nguema Evono Mbang (sports minister)
• Jaime Obama Owono Nchama (minister-delegate for infrastructure)
• Manuel Nguema Mba (minister-delegate for the interior)
• Pastor Micha Ondo Bile (foreign affairs minister)
• Rubén Maye Nsue Mangue (justice minister)
• Clemente Engonga Nguema Onguéné (interior minister)
• Baltasár Engonga Edjo (economy minister)
• Cristóbal Menana Ela (energy minister)
• Teresa Efua Asangono (women’s affairs minister)
• Francisco Edu Ngua Okomo (secretary of state for foreign affairs)
• Victoriana Nchama Nsue Okomo (secretary of state for foreign affairs)
• Francisco Mabale Nseng (secretary of state for energy)
• Melchor Esono Edjo (secretary of state for the treasury)
The Gambia
The Jammeh Family
Yahya Jammeh president of the Gambia (1994-now)
Mariam Jammeh daughter of the president (owner of a multi million trust house in Mary Land USA also lots of offshore projects in Guinea and Morocco)
Ansumana Jammeh half brother of the President (Gambia’s Ambassador to Qatar and Middle East)
Pahary Jammeh Cousin of the president (Solicitor General of the Gambia and owner of multibillion secret projects,)
Benedict Jammeh Cousin of President Jammeh (Head of the National Drug Enforcement Agency)
Zainabou Suma Jammeh Wife of President Jammeh
Alhaji Ibrahim Suma father of the first lady Zainab father in law of president Jammeh (Carrier Diplomat and close confident of late president Lansana Conteh of Guinea)
Mariam Suma sister of Zainab sister in law to president Jammeh (Business tycoon and owner of Diva fashions
Tibou Camara, Zeinab’s brother-in-law (former information minister of Guinea Conakry now the one running Jammeh’s secret empire)
Abdoulie & Numo Kujabi cousins of President Jammeh (former & present Head of the National Intelligent Agency)
Abdoulie Bojang uncle of the president (Speaker of the National Assembly)
Yusupha Bojang cousin to the president (Deputy High commissioner to the UK)
Ousman Jammeh cousin of the president (Secretary General and Head of the Civil Service)
Aziz Tamba nephew of president Jammeh (former head of Junglers Secret squad)
Fatim Badgie (a member of Jammeh’s Jola ethnic tribe, Minister of Health and Social Welfare)
Abdou Kolley (a member of the president’s Jola ethnic tribe, Minister of Trade, Regional Integration and Employment)
Famara Jatta (a member of Jammeh Jola ethnic tribe former minister of finance and Governor of the Central Bank)
Alhagie Momodou Sanyang (a member of the president’s Jola ethnic tribe, Director General of GRTS)
Lamin SABI Sanyang (a member of the president’s ethnic Jola tribe, son of Momodou Sanyang Director GRTS and errand boy of the president)

Gabon
The Sassou-Nguesso Family
Denis Sassou-Nguesso (president of the Republic of Congo)
 Jean-Dominique Okemba (leader of national Security Council; nephew of Sassou-Nguesso)
Emmanuel Yoka (Congolese cabinet chief; uncle of Sassou-Nguesso)
 Edgar Nguesso (nephew of Sassou-Nguesso; director of estate)
 Hilaire Moko (director of government security; nephew of Sassou-Nguesso)
 Denis Christel Nguesso (nephew of Sassou-Nguesso; senior state oil company official)
 Wilfrid Nguesso (brother of Edgar; senior parastatal director)
o Gabriel Oba-Apounou (vice-president of National Assembly of Gabon; cousin of Sassou-Nguesso)
 Claudia Lemboumba-Nguesso (Sassou’s daughter; wife of M. Leboumba; communications director)
 Martin Lemboumba (husband of Lemboumba-Nguesso; son of J. Lemboumba)
o Jean-Pierre Lemboumba (finance minister; father of M. Leboumba)
o Antoinette Sassou-Nguesso (first lady of the Republic of Congo; married to Sassou-Nguesso)

Gabon
Bongo Family
Omar Bongo (president of Gabon and husband of Edith Sassou-Nguesso)

 Ali Bongo Ondimba (president of Gabon and son of Omar)
 Edith Nguesso-Bongo (Sassou-Nguesso’s daughter)
 Pascaline Bongo Ondimba (current Presidential Cabinet Director, and daughter of Omar)
 Paul Toungui (foreign minister of Gabon, husband of Pascaline)
 Martin Bongo (former foreign minister of Gabon, nephew of Omar)
Zimbabwe:
The Mugabe-Chiyangwa Family
Robert Mugabe (President of Zimbabwe, 1987–present; Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, 1980–1987)
• Sabina Mugabe (sister of Robert Mugabe; Member of Parliament)
o Innocent Mugabe (son of Sabina Mugabe; Director of the Central Intelligence Organisation)
o Leo Mugabe (son of Sabina Mugabe; businessman and Member of Parliament)
o Patrick Zhuwawo (son of Sabina Mugabe; businessman and Member of Parliament)
• Philip Chiyangwa (cousin of Robert Mugabe; businessman and ZANU-PF regional leader)

Politics must run in the genes, right? It certainly looks as if you’re made ofr life if you’re born into the right families on the continent, and doomed if you aren’t. African Dictator left out some of the other family dynasties such as Abdoulie Wade of Senegal, Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi and Paul Kagame of Rwanda to name a few- these we have covered extensively in other articles.
Bongo and his family are said to own 39 properties including luxury villas, 70 bank accounts and nine cars in France. Sassou Nguesso and his family own 24 apartments, 112 bank accounts. Obiang Nguema and his family own one apartment and eight cars in France. Obiang Nguema’s son has faced the court in South Africa over two luxury villas he owns there. Obiang Nguema himself also had problems in 2006 over a $35 million California beach house he owns there. Information on the properties in France was obtained from police reports.

• Indicators: The nepotism inherent in dictatorships is linked to controlling power and wealth, as well as a
• Cult of personality which desires the continuation of a family name by succession.
Most of them are considerably sick.
God save Africa
By Bamba Mass (UK)

AFRICA’S UNFORTUNATE SONS AND THEIR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY WHILE IN POWER




AFRICA’S UNFORTUNATE SONS AND THEIR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY WHILE IN POWER

By Bamba Mass Human Rights Activist UK

If democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the people, a thugogracy is a government of thieves, for thieves, by thieves. Simply stated, a thugtatorship is rule by a gang of thieves and robbers (thugs) in designer suits. It is becoming crystal clear that much of Africa today is a thugogracy privately managed and operated for the exclusive benefit of bloodthirsty thugtators.
In a thugtatorship, the purpose of seizing and clinging to political power is solely to accumulate personal wealth for the ruling class by stealing public funds and depriving the broader population scarce resources necessary for basic survival. The English word “thug” comes from the Hindi word “thug” which means “con man”. “Thugees” are well-organized criminal gangs that robbed and murdered unsuspecting travelers over a century ago to today.
Africa’s identity is poverty, Africa’s identity is suffering, malnourishment, civil war, and OUR identity is death everywhere on the continent.
African rulers and number of people killed during their rule
Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78) 1,500,000
Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970) 1,000,000
Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994) 0,800,000
Cl.Theonesta Bagosora chief coordinator Rwandan Genocide 0,800,000
Jonas Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002) 0,580,000
Idi Amin (Uganda, 1969-1979) 0,570,000
Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire, 1965-97) 0,555,000
Charles Taylor (Liberia, 1989-1996) 0,530,000
Foday Sankoh (Sierra Leone, 1991-2000) 0,528,000
Muhammad AL Bashir (Sudan, 1989-present) 0,525,000
Jean-Bedel Bokassa (Centrafrica, 1966-79) 0,422,000
Mohmar Gaddafi (Libya 1969-present) 0,108,000
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (1979-present) 0,080,000
Hissene Habre (Chad, 1982-1990) 0,078,000
Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe, Ndebele minority 1982-87,) 0,040,000
Yuweri Mussaveni (Uganda, 1986-present) 0,030,000
Lansana Conteh (Guinea Conakry 1984-2010) 0,016,000
Yahya AJJ Jammeh (Gambia, 1994-present) 0,002,000
“Thugees in Africa”, mugs, rob, pillage, plunder, rape and kill unsuspecting whole nations and peoples and secrete away their billions in stolen loot in European and American banks.
Today, we see the incredibly extreme lengths Libyan thugtator Muammar Gaddafi is willing to go to preserve his thugocratic empire floating on billions of stolen oil dollars hidden in foreign bank accounts and corporate property holdings. The British Government recently announced that it expects to seize “around £20 billion in liquid assets of the Libyan regime, mostly in London alone.”
The Swiss Government has similarly issued an order for the immediate freeze of assets belonging to Gadhafi and his entourage. The Swiss central bank announced that it will freeze Gaddafi’s 613 million Swiss francs (USD$658 million), with an additional 205 million francs (USD$220 million) in paper or fiduciary operations. In 2008, before a diplomatic incident involving the arrest of one of Gaddafi’s sons for assault in Switzerland, Gadhafi’s Swiss holdings amounted to 5.7 billion in cash and 812 million francs in paper and fiduciary operations. In 2006, the Libyan Sovereign Wealth Fund had investments of $70 billion. The U.S. closed its Embassy in Tripoli and slapped a freeze on all Libyan assets described as “substantial.”
Now when the Libyan people felt enough is enough they rebelled and to protect his empire of corruption and stealing with his son small thieves, Gadhafi has ordered his air force to bomb and strafe unarmed civilian demonstrators demanding an end to his 42-year rule. His son Saif al-Islam threatened to dismember the country and plunge it into a civil war that will last for 30 or 40 years. In a televised speech, the young thug promised a bloodbath: “We will fight to the last minute, until the last bullet. I will fight until the last drop of my blood.” The buffoonish al-Islam contemptuously reassured the world: “Plan A is to live and die in Libya. Plan B is to live and die in Libya. Plan C is to live and die in Libya.” For someone who has no official role in government, it was an astonishing statement to make.
Gadhafi himself has vowed to fight on and die “like a martyr” in the service of his thugogracy. He urged his supporters in Green Square to fight back and “defend the nation.” He exhorted, “Retaliate against them, retaliate against them… Dance, sing and prepare. Prepare to defend Libya, to defend the oil, dignity and independence.” Gadhafi promised: “At the suitable time, we will open the arms depot so all Libyans and tribes become armed, so that Libya becomes red with fire.” It is not enough for Gadhafi and his thugs to have bled the Libyan people dry for 42 years; they now want to burn down the whole country to ashes. Apres moi, le deluge! (After me, is the flood!)
The Ivory Coast sometime ago was nearly on the verge of civil war, according to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. In December 2010, Laurent Gbagbo refused to step down after he was decisively defeated in the presidential election. His own Election Commission said his opponent Alassane Ouattara won the election by a nine-point margin. The African Union, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the United Nations, the United States, the European Union all said Ouattara is the winner. Gbagbo has turned a deaf ear and prepared to use thugs to plunge the Ivory Coast into civil war to protect his empire of corruption. In 2000, Gbagbo imposed a curfew and a state of emergency and ordered security forces to shoot and kill any demonstrators in the streets: “Police, gendarmes and soldiers from all branches of the armed forces are ordered to use all means throughout the country to oppose troublemakers.” Like Gaddafi’s mercenaries today, Gbagbo’s troops back then went on a killing and beating rampage. The European Union, the Swiss and United States Governments have frozen Gbagbo’s assets in their countries amounting to billions of dollars
In May 2010, Ethiopia’s Meles Zenawi said he won the parliamentary election by 99.6 percent. “According to the World Bank, roughly half of the rest of the national economy is accounted for by companies held by an EPRDF-affiliated business group called the Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray (EFFORT). EFFORT’s freight transport, construction, pharmaceutical, and cement firms receive lucrative foreign aid contracts and highly favorable terms on loans from government banks.” The regime’s own anti-corruption agency reported in 2008 that “USD$16 million dollars” worth of gold bars simply walked out of the bank in broad daylight
In 2005, Zenawi demonstrated the extremes he will go to protect his empire of corruption. Zenawi’s troops under his direct command and control mowed down 193 documented unarmed protesters in the streets and severely wounded nearly 800. Another 30,000 suspected opponents were jailed. In a meeting with high level U.S. officials in advance of the May 2010 election, Zenawi told them in plain words what he will do to his opposition if they try to “discredit the election”: “If opposition groups resort to violence in an attempt to discredit the election, we will crush them with our full force; they will all vegetate like Birtukan (Midekssa) in jail forever.” it does not leave much to the imagination to figure out what he will do when the people ask him peacefully to leave power.
Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh vowed to stay in power at whatever cost. Saying God put him in power and only God can remove him from power. His Empire that he is crafting, forcing the populace into virtual poverty thus their dependence directly on his hand outs would force them to subjugate then to become his servants. Making the birth of his only son a public holiday in the whole country signals to all around that a successor is born. He rules in an Idi Amin style with all the bogus degrees he can muster: Sheick, Professor, Doctor, Nasirudeen, GCMG, GMRG, and ECT.
On April 10-11, 2000 GAMSU organized a large scale protest that threatened the Jammeh administration. The students demonstrated on April 10, 2000 to protest the alleged beating to death of Ebrima Barry a secondary school student at the hand of fire service officers in Brikama, Western Region. Apart from the outrageousness of the fact that fire service officers were asked to discipline a student, the government failed to properly investigate the matter. The GAMSU student leadership made demands and an autopsy report (which was widely believed to be a cover up) stated that Ebrima died of natural causes. A spontaneous student protest ensued at the Gambia College, where a Gambia Students' Union (GAMSU) sub-union existed Jammeh was in Cuba at the time and according to sources close to statehouse, he was shaking with fear that his regime has collapsed and when he got the reassurances from his security chiefs that they would do all to keep the situation under control, Jammeh was said to have personally ordered for those demonstrators to be shot with life rounds. He was said to have said “shoot and kill anyone found on the streets kill the bastards kill them all I don’t care” 14 students were killed and up to this date no one was punished for those crimes even though his government held an enquiry into it and people were found culpable for the crimes. Instead majority of them were promoted within the army and police.
His minority ethnic Jola tribe have produced his worst killers so far the likes of Musa Jammeh (aka Malia Mungu ) Idi Amin’s notorious killer in Uganda), Tumbul Tamba, Solo Bojang ect. They can kill without mercy and HRH, eliminate any who stand in his way. He has diverted millions into his wife’s Moroccan account, bought houses in America and Middle East through thieving. Chief thief and chief womanizer of Africa who watches women to strip dance for him, doesn’t care marrying girls as young as 17yrs.The Dictator vowed to stay in power threatening to crush any who ever try to remove him. He said God put him there and only god would remove him no election or coup would. While he bought a mansion for his wife Zainab and her kids in the United States worth millions of Dollars, his people can barely afford bread and for generosity sake, he would be seen throwing bisketes at his people who would scramble over it while he watches and laugh.
Taiwan a country not recognized by the international community UN is in the tiny Gambia’s only known business partner arming the Gambian Tyrant.
In April 2010, Omar al-Bashir of the Sudan claimed victory by winning nearly 70 percent of the vote. The EU EOM declared the “deficiencies in the legal and electoral framework in the campaign environment led the overall process to fall short of a number of international standards for genuine democratic elections.” Another election stolen in broad daylight; but that is not all Bashir has stolen. According to a Wikileaks cablegram, “International Criminal Court [ICC] Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told [U.S.] Ambassadors Rice and Wolff on March 20 [2009] that [Ocampo] would put the figure of Sudanese President Bashir’s stash of money at possibly $9 billion.” After the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, the first warrant of its kind for a sitting head of state, a sneering Bashir flipped his middle finger at the ICC: “They will issue their decision tomorrow, and we are telling them to immerse it in water and drink it“, a common Arabic insult which is the equivalent of “they can shove it up their _ _ _.” Bashir recently he said he will not run for the presidency again. (It is not clear if had decided not to run because he wants to enjoy his stolen billions or because he expects to put on the jail jumpsuit of the ICC.)
In February 2010, a group of soldiers in Niger calling itself the “Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy” stormed Niger’s presidential palace and snatched president Mamadou Tandja and his ministers. In 2009, Tandja had dissolved the National Assembly and set up a “Constitutional Court” to pave the way for him to become president-for-life. Niger’s state auditor reported that “at least 64 billion CFA francs [USD$128-million] were stolen from Niger’s state coffers under the government of former president Mamadou Tandja.” Tandja is sitting in jail in southwestern Niger.
In March 2008, Robert Mugabe declared victory in the presidential election after waging a campaign of violence and intimidation on his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai and his supporters. In 2003, Mugabe boasted, “I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective: justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their rights over their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be Hitler tenfold. Ten times, that is what we stand for.” No one would disagree with Mugabe’s self-description. In 2010, Mugabe announced his plan to sell “about $1.7 billion of diamonds in storage” (probably rejects of his diamond-crazed wife Grace). According to a Wikileaks cablegram, “a small group of high-ranking Zimbabwean officials (including Grace Mugabe) have been extracting tremendous diamond profits.” Mugabe is so greedy that he stole outright “£4.5 million from [aid] funds meant to help millions of seriously ill people.”
In December 2007, Mwai Kibaki declared himself winner of the presidential election. In 2002, Kibaki, criticizing his predecessor Daniel Arap Moi regime, urged the people to “Remain calm, even when intimidated or provoked by those who are desperately determined to rig the elections and plunge the country into civil war.” In 2007, Kibaki and his Thugees unleashed such violence against the civilian population that 1500 Kenyans were killed and some 600 hundred thousand displaced, almost plunging Kenya into civil war. The Kroll Report revealed that Moi stole billions of dollars using a “web of shell companies, secret trusts and frontmen” and secreted the loot in 30 countries. Kibaki stonewalled further action on the report, including prosecution of Moi.
The story of corruption, theft, embezzlement and brazen transfer of the national wealth of African peoples to European and African banks and corporate institutions is repeated elsewhere in the continent. Ex-Nigerian President Sani Abacha, who was judicially determined to be a member of a criminal organization by a Swiss court, stole $500 million.
Ben Ali of Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt also have their stolen assets in the hundreds of millions of dollars frozen in Switzerland and elsewhere
. Other African thugtators who have robbed their people blind (and pretty much have gotten away with it) include Nigeria’s Ibrahim Babangida, Guniea’s Lansana Conte, Togo’s Gnassingbe Eyadema, Gabon’s Omar Bongo, Equatorial Guniea’s Obiang Nguema, Burkina Faso’s Blaise Campore and Congo’s (Brazaville) Denis Sassou Nguesso, among others.
Godfathers and African Thugocracies
The business of African governments is corruption. African thugtators cling to power to operate sophisticated criminal business enterprises to loot their national treasuries and resources. These African “leaders” are actually “godfathers” or heads of criminal families. Just like any organized criminal enterprise, African thugtators use their party apparatuses, bureaucracies, military and police forces to maintain and perpetuate their corrupt financial empires.
When the U.S. first announced its “kleptocracy asset recovery program” to the world in July 2010, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder delivered the message, not at some international anti-corruption forum, but at the African Union Summit in Kampala, Uganda. Holder told the gathered African thugtators majority of who are major thieves who stole from their people and save in America and Europe.
He said to them
“Today, I’m pleased to announce that the U.S. Department of Justice is launching a new Asset Recovery Initiative aimed at combating large-scale foreign official corruption and recovering public funds for their intended – and proper – use: for the people of our nations. We’re assembling a team of prosecutors who will focus exclusively on this work and build upon efforts already underway to deter corruption, hold offenders accountable, and protect public resources.
Holder’s announcement was nothing short of breathtaking. It was as though he was addressing the national convention of the “Commissioner” of all the Mafia families from New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Atlantic City, Las Vegas, St. Louis, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. In Kampala, Holder was talking directly to the African equivalents of the Godfathers of the Bonnano, Columbo, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese crime families in one place. Absolutely surreal!
The Political Economy of Thugtatorships
Thugtatorships in Africa thrive in the political economy of kleptocracy. Widespread corruption permeates every corner of society. Oil revenues, diamonds, gold bars, coffee and other commodities and foreign aid are stolen outright and pocketed by the thugtators and their army of thugocrats. Public funds are embezzled and misused and state property misappropriated and converted to private use. Publicly-owned assets are virtually given away to supporters in “privatization programs” or secretly held in illegal transactions. Bank loans are given out to front enterprises owned secretly by the thugtators or their supporters without sufficient or proper collateral. Businessmen must pay huge bribes or kickbacks to participate in public contracting and procurement. Those involved in the import/export business are victimized in shakedowns by thugocrats. The judiciary is thoroughly corrupted through political interference and manipulation.
Armageddon: Thugtators’ Nuclear Option
One of the common tricks used by thugtators to cling to power is to terrorize the people with warnings of an impending Armageddon. They say that if they are removed from power, the sky will fall and the earth will open up and swallow the people. Thugtators sow fear, uncertainty and doubt in the population and use misinformation and disinformation to psychologically defeat, disorient and neutralize the people.
Thuggish Ghadafi and sons warned Libya will “spiral into civil war for the next 30 to 40 years and the country’s infrastructure ruined” without the Ghadafi dynasty. His eldest son Saif who thought all along he would succeed his criminal father said Libya will be awash in “rivers of blood”. If they try to remove his father: “This is an opposition movement, a separatist movement which threatens the unity of Libya. We will take up arms… we will fight to the last bullet. We will destroy seditious elements. If everybody is armed, it is civil war, we will kill each other.”
Now when the Libyan people felt enough is enough they rebelled and to protect his empire of corruption and stealing with his son small thieves, Gadhafi has ordered his air force to bomb and strafe unarmed civilian demonstrators demanding an end to his 42-year rule. His son Saif al-Islam threatened to dismember the country and plunge it into a civil war that will last for 30 or 40 years. In a televised speech, the young thug promised a bloodbath: “We will fight to the last minute, until the last bullet. I will fight until the last drop of my blood.” The buffoonish al-Islam contemptuously reassured the world: “Plan A is to live and die in Libya. Plan B is to live and die in Libya. Plan C is to live and die in Libya.” For someone who has no official role in government, it was an astonishing statement to make.
Gadhafi himself has vowed to fight on and die “like a martyr” in the service of his thugogracy. He urged his supporters in Green Square to fight back and “defend the nation.” He exhorted, “Retaliate against them, retaliate against them… Dance, sing and prepare. Prepare to defend Libya, to defend the oil, dignity and independence.” Gadhafi promised: “At the suitable time, we will open the arms depot so all Libyans and tribes become armed, so that Libya becomes red with fire. It is not enough for Gadhafi and his thugs to have bled the Libyan people dry for 42 years; they now want to burn down the whole country to ashes. Apres moi, le deluge! (After me, the flood!)
Zenawi has been talking about “genocide” for years. The 2005 European Union Election Observer Mission in its Final Mission Report strongly chastised Zenawi and his associates for morbid genocide rhetoric: Zenawi “is quick to talk up threats to his country, whether from malcontents in the army or disgruntled ethnic groups among Ethiopia’s mosaic of peoples. Radical Oromos, a southern group that makes up about a third of Ethiopia’s people, often fall under suspicion.” Last year, he compared Voice of America radio broadcasts to Ethiopia with broadcasts of Radio Mille Collines which directed the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.
If Africa’s thugtators plan to use the “nuclear option” and bring Armageddon on their societies, they would be wise to know who is destined to win the final battle between good and evil. Gadhafi’s fate now dangles between what he wants to do to bring this unspeakable tragedy to a swift conclusion, the will of the Libyan people once they vanquish his mercenaries and the International Criminal Court to whom the U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to refer Moammar Ghadafi and members of his government in Libya for investigation and prosecution for crimes against humanity and war crimes. Like al-Bashir of the Sudan, Ghadafi and members of his thugocratic empire will not escape the long arms of justice. The days of massacring unarmed demonstrators, strafing and bombing civilians and detention of innocent people by the tens of thousands with impunity are gone. Justice may be delayed but when the people open the floodgates of freedom, “justice (not blood) will run down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream” and wash out the wreckage of thugtatorship into the sea.
Their Business Partners in Africorruption, Inc. who care little or nothing for the people but the people they do business with and those fall they switch sides where ever it suits their interest.
Africa’s thugtatorship have longstanding and profitable partnerships with their partners outside Africa. Through aid and trade, these partners have enabled these thugocracies to flourish in Africa and repress Africans. To cover up their hypocrisy and hoodwink the people, the same partners would line up to champion for the people whenever they can no longer shut their ears any longer with the cries of the victims they would pretend to “freeze” the assets of the thugtators. It is a drama they have perfected since the early days of African independence. The fact of the matter is that those business partners are only interested in “stability” in Africa. That simply means, in any African country, they want a “guy they can do business with.” The business they want to do in Africa is the oil business, the (blood) diamond business, the arms sales business, the coffee and cocoa export business, the tourism business, the luxury goods export business and the war on terrorism business.
They are not interested in the African peoples’ business, the human rights business, the rule of law business, the accountability and transparency business and the fair and free elections business.
Today, they are witnessing a special kind of revolution never seen before in their dump yard: A youth-led popular nonviolent revolution against thugtatorships
Africa and the Middle East is shaking and neither they the business partners nor their thugtator friends knew what to do with this kind of revolution. President Obama said, “History will end up recording that at every juncture in the situation, Africans are on the right side of history.”
Well, what is good for Egypt is good enough for Ethiopia, Libya, Tunisia, the Sudan, Algeria, Kenya, Bahrain, Gambia, Djbouti, Somalia…, and Zimbabwe. The decisive question in world history today is: Are we on the right side of history now when we remain the victims of oppression or are we on the wrong side with thugtators destined to make us the dustbin their cheating enterprise? The monkey business
The Political Economy of Thugtatorships
Thugtatorships in Africa thrive in the political economy of kleptocracy. Widespread corruption permeates every corner of society. Oil revenues, diamonds, gold bars, coffee and other commodities and foreign aid are stolen outright and pocketed by the thugtators and their army of thugocrats. Public funds are embezzled and misused and state property misappropriated and converted to private use. Publicly-owned assets are virtually given away to supporters in “privatization programs” or secretly held in illegal transactions. Bank loans are given out to front enterprises owned secretly by the thugtators or their supporters without sufficient or proper collateral. Businessmen must pay huge bribes or kickbacks to participate in public contracting and procurement. Those involved in the import/export business are victimized in shakedowns by thugocrats. The judiciary is thoroughly corrupted through political interference and manipulation.
Three African leaders and their families had been investigated in Paris over whether they embezzled state funds to acquire vast assets in France including bank accounts, Riviera villas and fleets of luxury cars.
After a series of legal battles known as the "case of the ill-gotten gains", Paris's highest appeals court today authorized an inquiry into Gabon's late leader Omar Bongo, President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville and President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea.
The independent anti-corruption organisation Transparency International had brought a case accusing the leaders of laundering their nation's riches.
A police report in 2007 said the Bongo clan had 39 properties in France, mostly in Paris's 16th arrondissement and on the Riviera. The family also had 70 French bank accounts, 11 in Omar Bongo's name. They had at least nine luxury cars in France, including Ferraris and Mercedes worth a total of €1.5m. Bongo, once the world's longest-ruling head of state, died last year and was succeeded by his son Ali.
The family of Sassou-Nguesso, Omar Bongo's father-in-law, had 112 French bank accounts, 18 properties and at least one car in France worth more than €170,000.
The Obiang family had eight luxury cars in France, worth €4.2m. Obiang's son, a government minister, owns an apartment in an exclusive area of the capital.
Transparency International said the assets were worth several times more than the African leaders officially earned.
The NGO fought a long court battle to open a judicial investigation as French state prosecutors opposed an inquiry. Today's ruling sets a precedent for corruption investigations against sitting heads of state. An investigating magistrate will now begin looking into the assets of the three leaders and the role of French banks in acquiring them.
Transparency International praised the court ruling as a "major step forward" in French judicial history that opened the way for other "politically and economically sensitive" inquiries.
The African leaders and their families have denied building up personal wealth in France through embezzlement, money-laundering and the misuse of public funds.
The case threatens to lay bare the opaque deal-making and blind eye to corruption of France's special "Françafrique" relationship with its former African colonies. The case could also strain French diplomatic and business ties with Gabon and Congo, two former colonies, and with Equatorial Guinea, a growing oil exporter.
Switzerland says it has frozen assets worth nearly a billion dollars belonging to beleaguered North African leaders that are charged with using violence their people.
Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey revealed the amount during a press conference in Tunisia, where she is on a three-day visit, foreign ministry spokesman Lars Knuchel told AFP.

She said Switzerland has linked USD 473 million to former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and his associates, USD 415 million to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi and USD 69 million to ousted Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.

Shortly after the recent downfall of the despotic regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, the Swiss government ordered banks and other financial institutions to freeze assets belonging to the men and their associates in an effort to block secret withdrawals from the accounts.
The embattled Libyan ruler, who is fighting with his opponents at home, faced asset-freeze efforts in a number of Western countries after he embarked on a military crackdown on the country's opposition and revolutionary forces in mid-February.

Meanwhile in Egypt, Mubarak and his family face charges of illegally acquiring wealth and their assets have been frozen.

The ousted president is also under detention for an investigation into the crackdown on protesters during 18 days of anti-regime rallies that toppled him on February 11th.

In January, the French government also called on the banks in the country to freeze accounts belonging to former ruler Ben Ali following his downfall.

On January 14, Ben Ali fled the North African country for the Saudi port city of Jeddah in the wake of a historic revolution that drove him from power after more than 23 years of an iron-fist rule. He left the state coffers empty not even one gold bar in the state treasury was left.
The World Bank estimates that more than $1 trillion is paid in bribes each year. That figure does not even include amounts of public funds embezzled and plundered by high government officials.
A 2002 UNODC study estimated that between $600 billion and $1.8 trillion is the amount of money that is illegally laundered throughout the world each year, and a substantial portion of that is money derived from corruption by African Leaders.
After the 2004 Tsunami, over $7 billion was pledged to aid devastated areas, but the flow of that money has slowed because of concerns about corruption. A 2004 report by the African Union claims that Africa loses an estimated $148 billion annually to corrupt practices, a figure that represents 25% of the continent’s gross domestic product.

Zaire:
Transparency International estimates that Mobutu in Zaire allegedly embezzled up to $5 billion -1997 Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire is widely regarded as a pioneer of the African kleptocracy. During the period of his presidency (1965) millions of diamonds were exported via the state owned company Gecamines at invoice prices as low as $8.55 per carat (way below market price). The difference between the invoice price and the price achieved on the true value of the stones was deposited in Mobutu’s offshore accounts. Mobutu embezzled US$5 billion from the people of Zaire. A report prepared by the UN after Mobutu’s downfall implicated 54 government ministers and 85 multinational companies based in Europe, the British Channel Islands, Canada, US, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa for violations relating international trade and helping the dictator his brutal crackdown on his people
Nigeria:
According to The Economist, “When Sani Abacha was dictator of Nigeria at the end of the 1990s; the Central Bank had a standing order instruction to transfer US$15 million or so to his Swiss bank account every day.” Over 100 banks around the world were involved in handling Abacha’s loot, including Citigroup, HSBC, BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered and Deutsche Morgan Grenfell. Transparency International estimates that Abacha in Nigeria allegedly embezzled up to $5 billion just like his boss Mabutu of Zaire.
Illegal exploitation of Congolese
Capital flight due to transfer mispricing exceeds US$10 billion a year. Fake transactions are estimated to account for an additional $150-200 billion a year. 60 per cent of trade
transactions into or out of Africa are estimated to be mispriced, by an average of 11 per cent.- The incidence of transfer mis-pricing to achieve capital flight out of Africa has accelerated significantly. A study of import and export transactions between Africa and the United States found that between 1996 and 2005 net capital outflows to the US grew from $1.9 billion to $4.9 billion (+257%) through the use of low-priced exports and high-priced imports.
Recently the Daily Mail, exposed the relationship with Tony Blair and the Rwandan dictator
Tony Blair with Paul Kagame at the recent Davos WEF, at which the former UK Prime Minister was at the dictator’s side to introduce him to the assembled movers and shakers. Not surprising, perhaps, given that the event — at which Mr Blair was officially the chairman — was arranged in sole honour of Paul Kagame, the president of the African state of Rwanda.
And this being France’s, Nicolas Sarkozy who was also seen with the dictatorial regime in Gabon they cannot hide France’s interest in those African states. Despite a French court’s indictment of three top African leaders who have huge assets in France the subject on his lips throughout the stylish meeting, held during the World Economic Forum in Davos, was cold, hard cash.
In the case of Zimbabwe, China’s self interest is clear, given that in this case the dictator has promised not to nationalize Chinese properties and investments in the country. China signed nearly $700 million in loan deals with Zimbabwe, its biggest loan package to date, and urged the government to protect Chinese firms from nationalization plans.
Shunned by the west, President Robert Mugabe has increasingly sought help elsewhere. China, meanwhile, covets the mineral resources of the southern African country as Zimbabwe struggles back from economic collapse. Under Mugabe this once thrivining nation is on the brink of disaster – it is battling a cholera outbreak, while water, health and education services have collapsed. Source: Engineering News.
China is also active in Sudan helping arming the dictator to kill more Sudanese simply because most contracts with Sudanese oil goes to Chinese companies.
President Obama of the United States was in Equatorial Guinea to solicit business with the regime regardless of the human rights records in that country.
That remain our fate as African and these are the reason why vast majority of our labour force (the youth) abandon Africa because of hopelessness perpetuated by our evil leaders against their own people. In Africa no matter what one does their people, they are only satisfied when you buy them a tickets to leave what they poisonously belief is a hopeless place (Africa) and taken to the promised land Europe and America. Even with education one educated abroad cannot be compared to one educated at home in Africa even when they both did the same courses and gained the same qualifications.
God help Africa!

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