Burkina Faso seeks democracy Masses of Burkina Faso, located in West Africa went to the streets to prevent the amendment of the Constitution, including Blaise Compaore to be allowed to take over the presidency for a fifth term and did not calm down until after that the protesters forced him to step down and flee abroad escape with his life even before completing a fourth year lm convinced by announcing on television that he understands the message and that he would not run after the end of the fourth term and the draft amendment to the Constitution will be canceled and the state of emergency, almost as a reaction of Bin Ali in Tunisia before fleeing in 2011. Protesters burned the headquarters of the parliament and the ruling party, television and houses many of the parliamentarians in disbelief of Compaore, fearing that may be a trick to circumvent the will of the nation . Despite their success in cutting the road to the Parliament and to prevent the adoption of the constitutional amendment to increase the allowed period into three periods . Compaore and the beneficiaries of his survival in power 27 years ago after the death of President Thomas Sankara in a military coup in 1987. Compaore falsified results of the 1992 and 1998 elections , he keeps on playing a game to hold a constitutional amendment to reduce the presidential term from seven to five years, renewed once in order to speed up the rotation of power peacefully but his real aim was to make way for the continuation of the same in the two other periods rule on the grounds that the constitutional amendment is not retroactive and therefore his two terms are not calculated . Compaore did not hold in the face of anger mass only two days and he escaped in time where hands on hearts for fear of a bloodbath by the army and police to suppress protests. But the opposition urges people to civil disobedience to prevent the constitutional amendment and force the president to leave the end of the duration in November 2015, but their demands stepped up to the need to as a non-negotiable step down immediately . Meanwhile , the army commander Honore Traore said he took the reins of power and the imposition of a state of emergency and dissolve parliament and the government, but , opposition leaders refused to replace one dictator with another, and threatened to resume angry protests if the power did not hand over to a civilian administration. Meanwhile , deputy commander of the Republican Guard Col. Isaac Zaida announced his presidency, raising fears of fighting the followers of the two men and the destruction of what remains of the capabilities of the poor people . Compaore state of stability and improvement of the economic of the country during the last twenty years of his reign, did not intercede to him and the poor income distribution remained in a rich country with natural wealth and the vast majority of its citizens, numbering about 17 million (60% of whom are Muslims) living under poverty line
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 09:15:08 +0000
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