"The Mission has received several lists of victims and wounded, as well as disappearances. In addition to these data, the Mission has received particularly credible reports that the number of dead is between 400 and 500. According to the mission, the data on summary executions have not been sufficiently taken into account. However, the Mission has been informed of cases of summary executions, particularly in Atakpamé and Aného, without forgetting Lomé. In addition, the Mission's medical examiner found inconsistencies and contradictions between the oral information obtained from official sources and the data contained in morgue registers or transported to hospital centers. The Mission was informed by credible sources of the existence of army commandos loaded with vehicles prepared for this purpose not only to crush protesters and militants but also to systematically remove and dispose of corpses, to avoid, among other things, the counting of victims by the emergency services. Finally, the mission was informed by many sources of the existence of mass graves where many people were buried including in the Prefecture of Ogou, "pinned the Office of the United Nations in a report published on September 26, 2005 .
Back on the mistakes of a Head of State in loss of credibility
The disaster that led Faure Gnassingbé to power, was never stopped despite his famous "never again" with tears of crocodile Atakpamé at the time . Nearly a dozen children were murdered with impunity for 13 years of reign, not to mention young, old and women.
So it is this Faure Gnassingbe who, in his river interview with Jeune Afrique, plays the donor of democratic lessons in these terms: "The opposition has no lessons of democracy and respect for human rights to me. give. I thought that conquest and the preservation of power could not allow everything, that there were red lines not to cross ".
It is not only the political adversaries who fall prey to this denial of realities at the top of the state.
Civil society, in this case the citizen movement Togo Debout, has noticed. The head of state pays in a total "ignorance of the deep social and political malaise", according to the term of the movement.
Had it not been for the popular movements lately, would Faure Gnassingbe be crossing Togo? It's not in his habits. He is a man who loves luxury, expensive clothes, expensive equipment, upscale hotels and palaces like his youthful habits. Young Africa unveiled in one of his publications this year devoted to the Youth of some African Heads of State including Faure Gnassingbe who has sank the pink life in the US sweat of the front of the taxpayer Togo when his father Gnassingbé Eyadema, led the hard life to the people.
In analyzing his interview, Togo Debout addresses this answer to Faure Gnassingbé: "If the conquest of power is through the ballot box, know that for you, you have crossed the red line many times ... We ask you to recognize that you are the problem of the crisis and ... to take it into account in the discussions that will soon open, with a view to a peaceful, lasting and definitive exit from this crisis ".
Unfortunately, when we come to this stage of the crisis, obnubulated by power, we lose common sense, and we think we are desperately right. Especially when you have the support of a businessman of the caliber of Vincent Bolloré.
This Breton forms with Faure Gnassingbe, an infernal duo of businessmen who know how to mount the good shots that bring big; quite big as 35 years of contract for the autonomous port of Lome, in the greatest opacity. In 2014, they fooled Togolese together about hypothetical trains on which women, men and children could travel.
To corroborate this subterfuge, they bandied old trains taken no one knows where to make inaugurations with big pumps in Lomé, as they always know how to do it well. But trains carrying people, there will never be, in Lome or anywhere in Togo. It was to fool people, to reserve a third term in 2015. Thus, Vincent Bolloré ensures that his 35 years of hegemony in the autonomous port of Lome, would be disrupted.
By dint of multiplying false promises for his country, Faure Gnassingbé loses the courage to watch the media, MPs and even his electorate in the face to express their commitment again, hence his legendary interest in foreign media where he may to a certain extent hide in order to spawn "statements out of step with reality", in the words of an opposition leader.
Of course, Faure Gnassingbe has found an ally in the foreign media.
In 2007, he declared on Rfi: "Faure Gnassingbé, it is the political reforms, the method of the dialogue and the reconciliation", it was after the Global Political Agreement (APG). A few years later, he will be selling on Deutsche Welle in Germany: "... We have no limitation of mandates, but we have a political reform which is planned and planned and during which we will debate these questions ". It was June 2016.
In short, after 13 years of rule, the main promise of Faure Gnassingbé is no longer on the program. No record is favorable to him. The proof: teachers, clerks, public administration, health professionals, even prison guards regularly go on strike. The growl is general.
Meanwhile, obsessed with power, he thinks that it is only his presidential chair that counts and must be preserved at all costs to the point of complaining in his interview in Jeune Afrique: "What we have assisted later was nothing more than an attempt to seize power by the street. "
How can a head of state, unable to defend his program of governmental action before a national assembly where his party is the majority, claim to govern in a transparent manner to the point of giving democratic lessons? At the beginning of his reign, he declared: "40 years (Editor's note), such is not my ambition. You know that life expectancy in Africa is 50 years. And I have 40 ".
Born in June 1966, Faure Gnassingbé turned 51 in June 2017. He is still in power, ready to do anything to stay there indefinitely. Here we do not speak of reforms, not constitution: But of the word given and never held.
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