This claim of Italian former PM Giuliano must be considered as a serious warning to new military leadership in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. This failed attempt to assassinate Kadafi by France in 1980 shows that this former colonizer of Africa is ready to do everything possible within its power to keep its grips on her African colonies and steals its huge naturel resources, even by eliminating recalcitrant leader who do not want to be the puppet of foreign power. Since 1963, more than 22 African presidents, then in power, have been assassinated by France, many of them asserted their independence and refused to go along with the colonial power. The latest of these leaders being Muammar Gaddafi assassinated by Sarkozy regime. Most of the coups and assassinations were carried out by the SDECE, the DGSE and the DST. These are three French intelligence services that have the reputation of carrying out coups and murders in Africa. The DGSE is the main secret service abroad, which is charged with controlling the “Black-skinned governors”, the term France uses to describe African puppet president under its control. There is another DST (Direction of Homeland Security) which deals with the interior and exterior security of France. It is charged with protecting France from ‘the dangers of immigration’. The DST, which is a political police, cooperates with other political police belonging to dictatorships around the world. After the DGSE, the DST and the SDECE, there is the Directorate of Military Intelligence, the agency responsible for France’s military propaganda during conflicts in Africa. On January 13, 1963, Sylvanus Olympio, the first democratically elected president is assassinated by Sergeant Etienne Eyadema with the support of the French officer who was supposedly responsible for the security of Olympio.In the Central African Republic There was a promising statesman, Barthélemy Boganda mysteriously died on March 29, 1959, in an aerial disaster while traveling between Berberati and Bangui. The Central African Republic of David Dacko in the grip of serious financial crises (misappropriation of public funds) instead of reacting and acting quickly decides to hand over power to the Chief of Staff Colonel Jean Bedel Bokassa on 1 January 1966. In the Comoros two assassinated heads of state and two others deposed by mercenary Bob Denard. In Niger, the same day Nigerian leader Hamani Diori threatened to sell the country’s uranium to other countries for a better price than France was paying, he was deposed by a military coup in which he was brutally murdered. In Gabon, Germain Léon M’ba dies of a cancer in Paris at the hospital Claude Bernard on November 26, 1967. Like all properly educated African nationalists, he was against the idea that Gabon should be a puppet state controlled by France. M’ba enters active political life as early as 1960 and was immediately labelled as a “dangerous agitator” by French agents and politicians who were still in charge of the country’s security apparatus.M’ba was briefly overthrown by Jean-Hilaire Aubame with help from France. On February 19, 1964 under international pressure French paratroopers restored Léon M’ba to the presidency. M’ba resigned from his position to express his disapproval. On the night of September 18, 1971 Mr. Germain M’ba former ambassador in Bonn, who was also appointed in Tokyo, returned from the cinema accompanied by his wife and daughter. Mrs. M’ba and her daughter got out of the vehicle and entered the house. As Mr. M’ba closed the door, a man came out of the shadows and fired two shots killing him.
Here is the list of the assassinated African Presidents:
1963: SYLVANUS OLYMPIO, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. OF TOGO
1966: JOHN-AGUIYI IRONSI, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. OF NIGERIA
1969: ABDIRACHID-ALI SHERMAKE, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. OF SOMALIA
1972: ABEID-AMANI KARUMÉ, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. FROM ZANZIBAR
1975: RICHARD RATSIMANDRAVA, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. OF MADAGASCAR
1975: FRANÇOIS-NGARTA TOMBALBAYE, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. OF CHAD
1976: MURTALA-RAMAT MOHAMMED, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. FROM NIGERIA
1977: MARIEN NGOUABI, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. OF CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE
1977: TEFERI BANTE, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. ETHIOPIA
1981: ANOUAR EL-SADATE, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. FROM EGYPT
1981: WILLIAM-RICHARD TOLBERT, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. OF LIBERIA
1987: THOMAS SANKARA, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. OF BURKINA-FASO
1989: AHMED ABDALLAH, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. COMOROS
1989: SAMUEL-KANYON DOE, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. OF LIBERIA
1992: MOHAMMED BOUDIAF, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. ALGERIA
1993: MELCHIOR NDADAYÉ, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. FROM BURUNDI
1994: CYPRIEN NTARYAMIRA, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. OF BURUNDI
1994: JUVENAL HABYARIMANA, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. OF RWANDA
1999: IBRAHIM BARRÉ-MAINASSARA, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. OF NIGER
2001: LAURENT-DESIRED KABILA, PRESIDENT OF THE REP. CONGO-KINSHASA
2009: JOÃO BERNARDO VIEIRA, PRESIDENT OF GUINEA-BISSAU
2011: MOUAMMAR KHADAFI, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LIBYA, ASSASSINED
