(Laurent Gbagbo: ... freed of all charges at the International Criminal Court, The Hague, Holland)
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
CÔTE
D’IVOIRE’s former head of regime Laurent Gbagbo
has been freed by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Holland, where
he has been detained since 2011, accused of “crimes against humanity”. He is
found “not guilty” to all the charges brought against him.
Gbagbo’s detention and charge in the ICC, at the very
instance of France, were obviously suspect, right from the outset.
Sarkozy & Obama
France, under the staggeringly racist President Nicolas Sarkozy, had earlier on invaded Côte d’Ivoire with full support of the new US President Barack Obama
(https://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.com/2018/07/herbert-ekwe-ekwe-main-thrust-of-ex-us.html), overthrew Laurent Gbagbo, and installed Allassane Ouatarra, its francophonie acolyte, to power. The French murdered 2300 Ivoriens during the course of the invasion and destroyed significant residential and industrial districts of Abidjan in its stride.
FRANCE’s decision to hand over Gbagbo to the ICC was a cynical ploy to cover up this glaring crime of invasion and also allow its Ouatarra stooge to “consolidate” the imposition. France and Britain, particularly, have ensured that the stretch of genocidists from a Nigeria, for instance, are “shielded” from appearing at the ICC, whilst they cooperate readily and send “critical” African leaders to the court. The ICC, consequently, has been rendered utterly redundant.
For Barack Obama, first African-descent US president in 233 years of the US republic, his support of this French invasion of an African state was the deadly first salvo fired in his aggressive foreign policy to Africa during his eight years in office which also included the tripartite US-British-French invasion of Libya and murder of head of regime Muammar Gadaffi, and, most catastrophically, Obama’s support of the raging Igbo genocide. An abhorrent presidential legacy indeed.
CÔTE D’IVOIRE heartily awaits the return of Laurent Gbagbo home.
(Max Roach Quartet, “A variation-part I” [personnel: Roach, drums; Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophone; Mal Waldron, piano; Eddie Khan, bass; recorded live, The Jazz Workshop, San Francisco, US, 27 October 1962])
*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is the author, with Lakeson Okwuonicha, of Why Donald Trump is great for Africa (2018)
Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe
