#mobutu

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Just a couple sketches and inkings of some dictators and some rockstars!

Plus an eye reveal!

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Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga

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The more I read, the more I realize those men have a huge responsability in Zaïre's downfall.

From left to right, you have Generals Bolozi, Baramoto, Mavua, Eluki et Nzimbi. (Photo Le Soft Online)

Their actions fueled by blind greed are what left the country defenseless in the worst period leading to a devasting period which still is ongoing especially in the East of DRC.

We blame Mobutu, as we should (he "made" those men), but their part in the debacle should not be forgotten.

If those men were half of what they were supposed to be, the whole continent would have been a very different place.

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The Muppets Take Kinshasa

A Muppet retelling of the coup of Mobutu Sese Seko and the execution of Patrice Lumumba.

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mbappe's wizard working overnight to get competition out the way I see

man's really a dictator

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Thank you for your service Tiktok

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Mobutu Sese Seko was an Angolan politician who served as President of Angola from 1979 to 1992. He was a key figure in the country's independence movement and played a significant role in the development of modern Angola.

Link: Mobutu Sese Seko

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LIBERTÉEEEE ! Mbappé n’est plus parisien 😝

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Mobutu, of course, was one of the two classic Cold War military dictators in Africa:

Mobutu and Idi Amin of Uganda are the 'classic' Cold War African military dictators, both of them having flamboyant styles and embodying all the inefficient incompetence that goes into how real dictatorships actually work in real life. Mobutu won the Congo Crisis, working with Joseph Kavasubu to re-unite the Republic of Congo....and then expelled Kavasubu as a rival and consolidated his rule in the renamed Zaire for the next 32 years.

If theft bestowed competence he would be one of Africa's greatest rulers. As it was he is a bar none thief who stole enough to bring a region the size of Western Europe lavishly supplied with natural resources out the yin-yang to the brink of economic collapse, and would be one of the African rulers of the Cold War whose life and career outlasted it, though he fell victim to post-Cold War African politics. Men like Mobutu all too often would be key figures in determining how African politics actually worked, because the very same realities that won the National Liberation wars equally left overmighty generals as overpowered forces in politics with disastrous consequences for African states.

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Discours mémorable de Mobutu à La Tribune des Nations-Unies en 1973.

Si tu apprécies le post, n’hésite pas à laisser un commentaire ou un ❤️. C’est toujours bon pour la motivation et pour la survie du site.  La Note Firebarzzz 🌡️ Sous la présidence de Mobutu – (1965 – 1997) Au milieu des années 1960, alors que le Che Guevara se rend au Zaïre (actuelle RDC) pour exporter la révolution cubaine, le président congolais Mobutu Sese Seko, au pouvoir depuis 1965, se…

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RDC-histoire : Le 13 octobre 1965, le jour où Joseph Kasavabu a crée un incident qui précipitera sa chute en faveur de Mobutu

Le 13 octobre 1965, devant les 2 Chambres réunies, le Président Kasa Vubu révoque son Premier ministre, Moise Tshombe. Comme en sept 1960, Kasa Vubu venait de créer un deuxième incident qui poussera le Général Joseph Désiré Mobutu à faire son deuxième coup d’Etat un mois plus tard (novembre 1965), fatigué, dira-t-il, d’assister aux querelles des politiciens. Ce jour du 13 octobre, le Président…

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Atrocities US committed against AFRICA

In early 2017, the US began conducting drone strikes in Somalia against Al Shabab militants. An attack on July 16th killed 8 people.

In 1998, the US bombed the Al Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan, killing one employee and wounding 11. It was the largest pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, producing medicine both for human and veterinary use. The US had acted on false evidence of a VX nerve agent from a single soil sample, and later used a false witness to cover for the attack. It was the only pharmaceutical factory in Africa not under US control.

In June 1982, with the help of CIA money and arms, Hissene Habre , dubbed Africa’s Pinochet, takes power in Chad. His secret police, use methods of torture including the burning the body of the detainee with incandescent objects, spraying gas into their eyes, ears and nose, forced swallowing of water, and forcing the mouths of detainees around the exhaust pipes of running cars. Habré’s government also periodically engaged in ethnic cleansing against groups such as the Sara, Hadjerai and the Zaghawa, killing and arresting group members en masse when it was perceived that their leaders posed a threat to the regime. Human Rights Watch claimed that Habre was responsible for thousands of killings. In 2001, while living in Senegal, he was almost tried for crimes committed by him in Chad. However, a court there blocked these proceedings. Then human rights people decided to pursue the case in Belgium, because some of Habre’s torture victims lived there. The U.S., in June 2003, told Belgium that it risked losing its status as host to NATO’s headquarters if it allowed such a legal proceeding to happen. So the result was that the law that allowed victims to file complaints in Belgium for atrocities committed abroad was repealed. However, two months later a new law was passed which made special provision for the continuation of the case against Habre. In May 2016 he was found guilty of human-rights abuses, including rape, sexual slavery and ordering the killing of 40,000 people, and sentenced to life in prison.

In the 1980s, Reagan maintains a close relationship with the Apartheid South african government, called constructive engagement, while secretly funding it in the hopes of creating a bulwark of anti-communism and preventing a marxist party from taking power, as happened in angola. Later on, in the wars against Apartheid in South Africa and Angola, in which cuban and anti-apartheid forces fought the white south african government, the US supplied south africa with nuclear weapons via Israel.

In 1975, Henry Kissinger launches a CIA-backed war in Angola, backing the brutal anti-communist leader of UNITAS, Jonas Savimbi, against Agostinho Neto and his Marxist-Leninst MPLA party, creating a civil war lasting for 30 years. The CIA financed a covert invasion via neighboring Zaire and a drive on the Angolan capital by the U.S. ally, South Africa. Congress continues to fund UNITAS, and their south-african apartheid allies until the late 1980s. By the end of the war, more than 500,000 people had died and over one million had been internally displaced.

In 1966, a CIA-backed military coup overthrows he widely popular Pan-Africanist and Marxist leader Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana, inviting the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to take a lead role in managing the economy. With this reversal, accentuated by the expulsion of immigrants and a new willingness to negotiate with apartheid South Africa, Ghana lost a good deal of its stature in the eyes of African nationalists.

In 1965, a CIA-backed military coup installs Mobutu Sese Seko, described as the “archetypal African dictator” in Congo. The hated and repressive Mobutu exploits his desperately poor country for billions.

In 1962, a tip from a CIA spy in South Africa lead to the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela, due to his pro-USSR leanings. This began his 27-year-long imprisonment.

In 1961, the CIA assists in the assassination of the democratically elected congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, throwing the country into years of turmoil. Before his assassination the CIA sent one of its scientists, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, to the Congo carrying “lethal biological material” intended for use in Lumumba’s assassination. This virus would have been able to produce a fatal disease indigenous to the Congo area of Africa and was transported in a diplomatic pouch.

In 1801, and again in 1815, the US aided Sweden in subjugating a series of coastal towns in North Africa, in the Barbary Wars. The stated reason was to crack down on pirates, but the wars destroyed the navies of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco, and secured European and US shipping routes for goods and slaves in North Africa. US Representatives stated: “When we can appear in the Ports of the various Powers, or on the Coast, of Barbary, with Ships of such force as to convince those nations that We are able to protect our trade, and to compel them if necessary to keep faith with Us, then, and not before, We may probably secure a large share of the Meditn trade, which would largely and speedily compensate the U. S. for the Cost of a maritime force amply sufficient to keep all those Pirates in Awe, and also make it their interest to keep faith.” Thomas Jefferson echoed and carried out the war, saying that war was essential to securing markets along the Barbary Coast.

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CIA OFFICER ON PLOT TO KILL LUMUMBA

There’s long been suspicion the CIA plotted the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, DRC’s first prime minister and independence leader. The spy agency had identified the pan-Africanist as a radical years before he came to power.

In this clip, former CIA officer John Stockwell spills the beans. He says the CIA’s station chief Larry Devlin had plans to poison Lumumba. However, a coup became the preferred option with military chief Joseph Mobutu seizing power and orchestrating Lumumba’s death by firing squad.

The interview is from the documentary ‘Inside the CIA: On Company Business.’ Well worth a watch.

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Patrice Lumumba was the first elected Prime Minister of the Congo. He ascended to power in the Congo on June 30, 1960, the date of Congo’ s independence from Belgium. Within ten weeks of being elected, Lumumba’s government was deposed in a coup. He was subsequently imprisoned and assassinated on January 17, 1961 by Western powers (United States, Belgium, France, England and the United Nations) in cahoots with local leaders such as Moise Tshombe and Joseph Desire Mobutu.

Lumumba is a member of the Tetela ethnic group. He was born on July 2, 1925, in Katako-Kombe in the Sunkuru district of the Kasai Province. Growing up, Lumumba attended a Protestant Missionary school as well as a Catholic missionary school and became a part of the educated elite called évolués. Lumumba contributed to the Congolese press through poems and other writings. His occupations included a postal clerk in Kinshasa and an accountant in Kisangani. Lumumba’s organizational involvement were varied. He served as head of a trade union of government employees, he was active in the Belgian Liberal Party and in 1958, Lumumba founded the Congolese National Movement (MNC in French). Also in 1958, he was invited to the first All-African People’s Conference in Accra, Ghana, organized by Kwame Nkrumah. He met nationalists and pan-africanists from various African countries and became a member of the permanent organization set up by the conference.

Lumumba’s party won national elections in May of 1960 which led to his ascendancy to Prime Minister on June 30, 1960. Read more on Lumumba>>

Lumumba’s Independence Day Speech Lumumba’s Last Letter to his Wife

Reading List Congo My Country by Patrice Lumumba Patrice Lumumba: Fighter for Africa’s Freedom by Patrice Lumumba The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo De Witte Rise and Fall of Patrice Lumumba by Thomas Kanza Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961 Translated by Helen R. Lane. Ed. Jean Van Lierde