An African statement on Cote D'Ivoire

I get suspicious when imperialists like the US, UK, and France (the former occupier of Cote D'Ivoire), and the UN they control interfere in the internal affairs of a small, but sovereign, country, even calling for a war to depose a leader.  Consider this statement signed by several African leftist organizations:    

 

NO TO FOREIGN MILITARY INTERVENTION:

NEITHER OF THE ECOWAS [Economic Community of West African States],
NOR THE UN NOR FRANCE!

FOREIGN TROOPS OUT OF THE IVORY COAST!

UNITY AND NATIONAL SOVEREIGN IVORIAN DEMOCRATIC AND PEACEFUL SOLUTION TO THE POST-ELECTION CRISIS!

After the barely veiled threats of Sarkozy and Obama on behalf of the so-called "international community" made up of France, England, Germany and the United States, now there is an ultimatum from the Heads of State of Cape Verde, Benin and Sierra Leone in the Ivory Coast.

As if there had been agreement on sharing roles, the Western powers pushed ECOWAS to take the decision on December 24 2010 for an armed intervention in the Ivory Coast to dislodge GBAGBO from power if he did not yield to the injunctions brought to him by a final mission of these three Presidents in the name of the ECOWAS.

Thus, the Western powers that cannot intervene directly worked behind the scenes to push their men in power in Africa to commit the infamies that they dare not take on publicly.

The USA, EU, the IMF, World Bank, the International Criminal Court, the same ones who carried out and funded the military coup that overthrew the legal and legitimate President of Honduras Zelaya, are using servile African puppets to kill and impose a criminal war on the Ivorian people.

The same imperialist powers and financial institutions lied to the whole world about the "weapons of mass destruction and complicity with Al Qaida" to attack, overthrow and occupy Iraq and murder its Head of State

This is why the signatory organizations affirm that the solutions to the post-election crisis in Ivorian society must come first and foremost from the Ivorian people themselves.

This is why we denounce any foreign armed intervention in the Ivory Coast and demand the withdrawal of all foreign forces present on Ivorian territory, whether they are official (United Nations Mission to the Ivory Coast, 41st BIMA [Marine Infantry Battalion]) or unofficial (mercenaries).

Long live the sovereignty of the Ivorian people! Long live Pan-African and internationalist solidarity!

December 27, 2010

Signatories: Fernent/ Pan-African Workers Movement – Senegal (F/M.T.P-S), Yoonu Askan Wi Senegal, RTA [Union of African Workers] – Senegal, Revolutionary Communist Party of the Ivory Coast, Communist Party of Benin, Actus Prpe [Action for Unity and Socialism / Popular and Ecological Revolutionary Party] Chad, CP Togo, CP Tunisia, Democratic Road of Morocco, PADS [Party for Democracy and Socialism] Algeria, UP [Union of the Populations] Cameroun, Sanfin Mali, CP Congo