Four deaths and more than a hundred wounded are reported by sources close to the human rights organizations who traveled to Mango, Bafilo, Sokodé and Kara and a mission of the coalition of the 14 opposition political parties that are planning a press conference on Wednesday.
To this is added the cow which was defeated by the soldiers who, it is said, would have been threatened by the beast. Strange argument that one meets only in the tropics. The record is cumbersome, the observers admit, especially since it was the peaceful demonstrations that the soldier of the regime Faure Gnassingbé took the pleasure to repress in the blood.
Contrary to what the regime and its supporters believe, this repression was carried out from end to end by their militia and soldiers dropped on the heels of the peaceful demonstrators. According to Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson, president of CAP 2015, a member of the opposition coalition, the militia and the military returned home to Mango and Bafilo, raped the peaceful population, ransacked the property of the poor citizens who did not even demonstrate.
It is therefore to cover their forfeitures that the repressive regime puts this barbarism at the back of the opposition militants. But some of Faure Gnassingbe's assailants, despite the desolation sown in families, give the impression that this balance is nothing compared to what is prepared by the regime.
Everything leads us to believe that the coming days will be darker. Otherwise, it is difficult to understand that a presidential advisor is making inflammatory remarks, as if to show the weakness and the feverishness of the power of Faure Gnassingbe who has been wavering for a few weeks.
On Africa24 last Saturday, the former Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice in charge of Relations with the Institutions of the Republic, now Presidential Adviser, Christian Trimua, seemed to unveil the hidden plan of the regime. "If you are capable, take also arms, to take power," he said on the show to his opponent who just asked if Faure Gnassingbe had come to power in good conditions in 2005 .
We recall the similar words of Christophe Tchao, President of the UNIR parliamentary group a few days ago. "If Togo burns, we will all burn with it," he said.
These are statements, or rather, slippages which reflect discomfort within the regime which pours into thinly veiled threats. Do the defenders of Lomé's power need to invite the opposition to take up arms? Everyone knows, the struggle is a peaceful struggle. But the collaborators of Faure Gnassingbé, short of arguments, are obliged to opt for provocation.
It is unfortunate that these two men have arrived at this stage. At a time when tensions are palpable throughout the country, it is useless to stir up fire in the name of unacknowledged interests. In any case, these exits do not seem to slow down the determination of the Togolese people who persist and sign: Faure must leave!
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