A_Wanderer
ONE love, blood, life
Nobody freaking cares about what the French do in their own colonial escapades, Ivory Coast the cocoa capital of the world is one more example of countries that are independent in name only, the money, stamps and political power are all derived from France. It should not come of any surprise that when procecuting a "peacekeeping" mission the French millitary will use whatever force available to it. This video shows French Army hellicopters firing on without warning upon a mob of people, no warning shots. The translation accompanying the video from Swiss TV is as follows:
Now I am not going to judge the actions here, there may well have been reason to open fire and people may have been at risk from the mob of demonstrators (I believe that the US in Somalia faced similar issues with the reporting of opening fire upon "demonstrators" in the media who simply forgot to leave in the part about them wielding weapons and shooting at the troops) but the issue I have is the double standard the "international community" plays with the US and Israel in everything that they do, could you imagine the response if the Israelis launched a missile barrage at a Palestinian "car swarm"?
The answer is that the outrage directed towards certain nations is too often disproportionate to their actions, and some nations have won a free pass in all of their deeds and dealings with the so called "international community" by siding with the Kleptocratic power brokers in the UN and having certain economic unions wrapped around their little finger. The world is a harsh and unfair place, and for those killed in that barrage or gunned down outside the Ivory Hotel on the 9th of November their deaths will go mostly unnoticed by the world, I think that this is a sorry state of affairs.
Link in regards to the event on the 9th here
http://real.xobix.ch/ramgen/tsr/tj/2004/tj_11302004-160k.rm?start=00:22:22.917&end=00:22:46.417(speaking about 9.11.2004, Ivoiry hotel “massacre” )
“....However it’s wasn’t the first time French Army shooted without ”warning shots“ (shot in the air).
We are on November 6, three days before the shooting of the hotel ivory.
the demonstrators (manifestors) move towards the French military base. French helicopters shoot directly at the demonstrators.
There would have been sixty died at the time of these various operations.
Tonight, the French Army admits ”a score“ of about 20 deaths.
Now I am not going to judge the actions here, there may well have been reason to open fire and people may have been at risk from the mob of demonstrators (I believe that the US in Somalia faced similar issues with the reporting of opening fire upon "demonstrators" in the media who simply forgot to leave in the part about them wielding weapons and shooting at the troops) but the issue I have is the double standard the "international community" plays with the US and Israel in everything that they do, could you imagine the response if the Israelis launched a missile barrage at a Palestinian "car swarm"?
The answer is that the outrage directed towards certain nations is too often disproportionate to their actions, and some nations have won a free pass in all of their deeds and dealings with the so called "international community" by siding with the Kleptocratic power brokers in the UN and having certain economic unions wrapped around their little finger. The world is a harsh and unfair place, and for those killed in that barrage or gunned down outside the Ivory Hotel on the 9th of November their deaths will go mostly unnoticed by the world, I think that this is a sorry state of affairs.
Link in regards to the event on the 9th here
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