WHY PAY TAX COLONIAL AFRICAN ? 31 January 20141 Many African countries continue to pay a tax in 2014 colonial Africa - France - you relationSaviez many African countries continue to pay tax in France since colonial independence until today ! When Sékou Touré of Guinea decided in 1958 to leave the French colonial empire, and opted for independence, the French colonial elite in Paris was so furious, and in a historic act of rage , destroyed everything in the country that represented what they called the benefits of French colonization. Three thousand French have left the country , taking all their possessions and destroying everything that could not be moved : schools, kindergartens, public administration buildings were crumbled , cars, books, medicines, instruments of research institute , tractors were crushed and sabotaged , horses, cows on farms were killed, and the food in the warehouses were burned or poisoned. The purpose of this outrageous act was to send a clear message to all the other colonies as the consequences of rejection of France would be very high . Slowly spread fear hollow of the African elite, and none after the events of Guinea has never found the courage to follow the example of Sékou Touré, whose slogan was We prefer freedom in poverty to wealth in slavery. Sylvanus Olympio , the first president of the Republic of Togo , a small country in West Africa , has found a solution to balance with the French . He did not want his country continues a French domination, therefore, refused to sign the pact proposed settlement De Gaul, but agreed to pay an annual debt of France for the so- called benefits that Togo obtained colonization française.Ce are the only conditions for French not to destroy the country before leaving. However, the amount estimated by France was so great that the repayment of the so-called colonial debt was close to 40% of the national budget in 1963. The financial situation of newly independent Togo was very unstable , so to get out of the situation , Olympio decided to leave the French colonial silver FCFA ( Franc of the French colonies in Africa ) , and issue the currency. On January 13, 1963 , three days after he began printing his own country monnaie.Olympio was killed by a former French Legionnaire army sergeant named Etienne Gnassingbe who supposedly received a bonus of 612 dollars local French embassy. Olympio s dream was to build an autonomous and independent country. June 30, 1962 Modiba Keita , the first president of the Republic of Mali , decided to withdraw from the French colonial FCFA currency was imposed on 12 newly independent African countries. For the Malian president, who leaned more towards a socialist economy was a trap , a burden to the countrys development . On 19 November 1968 , as Olympio , Keita will be the victim of a coup led by another French Foreign Legionnaire former Lieutenant Moussa Traoré . In fact, during this turbulent period of fighting African liberation from European colonization, France used repeatedly many former foreign legionnaires to make shots against the elected presidents : - 1st January 1966 , Jean- Bedel Bokassa , a former French Legionnaire , was a coup against David Dacko , first President of the Central African Republic. - On January 3, 1966 , Maurice Yaméogo , the first president of the Republic of Upper Volta , now called Burkina Faso , has suffered a blow by Sangoulé Lamizana Abubakar , a former French Legionnaire who fought with the troops French in Indonesia and Algeria against the country s independence . - On October 26, 1972 Kerekou who was a security guard at President Hubert Maga , the first president of the Republic of Benin , wore a coup against the president , after he attended the French military schools 1968-1970 . In fact, over the past 50 years , a total of 67 coups in 26 countries in Africa, 16 of these countries are former French colonies , which means that 61% of coups occurred in Francophone Africa. Number of state blow in Africa by country Former French colonies Other African countries Country Number blow Country Number blow Togo 1 Egypt 1 Tunisia 1 Libya 2 Ivoiry-Coast 2 Equatorial Guinea 1 Madagascar 2 Guinea-Bissau 1 Rwanda 1 Liberia 2 Algeria 2 Nigeria 3 DR Congo 2 Ethiopia 3 Mali 4 Uganda 2 Guinea Conakry 2 Sudan 5 Congo 3 Chad 3 Burundi 4 Centrale afrique 4 Niger 4 Mauritania 4 Burkina Faso 5 Comoros 5 Total ofstate blow 45 Total of state blow 22 As these figures show, the France is quite hopeless, but active to maintain a strong grip on its colonies. In March 2008, former French President Jacques Chirac said: Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of third power of the world The predecessor Jacques Chirac François Mitterrand already prophesied in 1957 : Without Africa, France will have no history in the 21st century 14 African countries are obliged by France , via a colonial pact , to 85% of their reserves at the central bank of France under the control of French finance minister. In 2014 , Togo and 13 other African countries still have to pay the debt in colonial France . African leaders who refuse are killed or coup. Those who obey are supported and rewarded by France with lavish lifestyle , while their people endure misery and despair. This is denounced by the European Union system , but France is not ready to cede the colonial system takes about $ 500 billion in annual cash France. We often accuse African leaders of corruption and serve the interests of Western nations instead , but there is a clear explanation for this behavior . Thus they have because they are afraid of being killed or the victim of a coup. They want a strong nation for backup in case of aggression or difficulty . But unlike a friendly protection of the nation, the protection of the West is often offered in exchange for those leaders renounce serve their own people or the interests of nations. In 1958, alarmed at the consequences of his choice independence from France , Leopold Sedar Senghor said: The choice of the Senegalese people is independence, they want it to take place only in friendship with France , not in dispute. Here are 11 key components of the settlement agreement that lasts since the 1950s : - 1 . Colonial debt and the benefits to France Countries newly independent should pay for the infrastructure built by France in the country during colonization . - 2 . Automatic forfeiture of the national reserve African countries must submit their national monetary reserves in France at the central bank . France recover the national reserves of fourteen African countries since 1961: Benin , Burkina Faso , Guinea -Bissau , Ivory Coast , Mali , Niger , Senegal , Togo , Cameroon , Central African Republic , Chad , Congo - Brazzaville , Equatorial Guinea and Gabon . In short, more than 80% of foreign exchange reserves of these African countries are deposited in the operations accounts controlled by the French Treasury . The two CFA banks ( French colonies in Africa) are African in name, but do not have their own monetary policies. The group is restricted to senior officials of the French Treasury who know the amounts in the operations accounts , where these funds are invested and are prohibited from disclosing information to the CFA banks or the central banks of the African states. Writes Dr. Gary K. Busch It is now estimated that France begs and receives nearly 500 billion to African countries in its treasury , and prevents those who want to shed light on the dark side of the former empire. African countries do not have access to that money. The France allows them access to only 15 % of the money in a given year. If they need more than that , they have to borrow additional money at high commercial rates. To make things more tragic , France imposes a ceiling on the amount of money that countries could borrow. The ceiling is set at 20 % of their revenue from the previous year . If countries need to borrow more than 20 % of their own money, France has a veto. Former French President Jacques Chirac recently spoke money African banks in France . Here is the video where he talks about the French operating system. We must be honest and recognize that much money in our banks are precisely the exploitation of the African continent. - 3 . Right of first refusal on any raw or natural resource discovery in the country France has the first right to purchase all the natural resources of the land of their former colonies. It was only after France said: I m not interested , that African countries are allowed to seek other partners . - 4 . Priority to the interests and French companies in public procurement In the award of public contracts , French companies must be considered first , and only after these countries could look elsewhere. In Ivory Coast, for example: French companies own and control all major public services - water, electricity , telephone, transport, ports and major banks. Idem in trade, construction and agriculture. - 5 . Exclusive right to provide military equipment and training military officers countries Thanks to a sophisticated system of scholarships , grants, and defense agreements attached to the colonial pact , Africans must send their senior officers training in France . The situation on the continent is now that France has trained hundreds , even thousands of traitors. They are idle when they are not needed , and assets in case of need a coup or other purposes ! - 6 . Right for France to pre- deploy troops and military intervention in the country to defend its interests Under something called defense agreements attached to the colonial pact , France had the right to intervene militarily in African countries , and also to station troops permanently in military bases and installations in these countries, fully managed by French . When President Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d Ivoire tried to end the exploitation of French country, France organized a coup. During the long process to oust Gbagbo , combat helicopters and special forces intervened directly in the conflict , was shot and killed many civilians . To add insult to injury, France considers that the French business community had lost several million dollars in the rush to leave Abidjan in 2006 the French army massacred 65 unarmed civilians and wounded 1,200 others. After France succeeded once, and transferred power to Alassane Ouattara, France asked the Ouattara government to pay compensation to the French business community for losses during the Civil War . Indeed, the Ouattara government paid them double what they said they had lost in leaving . - 7. Obligation to make French the official language and language education Yes, sir. Should you speak French , the language of Molière ! A French language and organization of the dissemination of the culture has been created called Francophonie with several satellites and affiliates controlled by the French Foreign Minister . - 8 . Obligation to use the money colonial France FCFA This is the real cash cow for the France.Lors the introduction of the euro currency in Europe , other European countries found the French operating system. Many , especially the Nordic countries, were appalled and suggested to France to get rid of the system, but without success. - 9 . Obligation to send annual report on France, balance and reserves . Without the report, no money. Anyway the secretary of the central banks of the ex- colonies , and the secretary of the bi- annual meeting of finance ministers of the ex- colonies is performed by France. - 10 . Waiver to enter into a military alliance with any other country , unless authorized by France Most countries only have military alliances with their former colonizers ! - 11 . Obligation to ally with France in war or global crisis More than one million Africans soldiers fought for the defeat of Nazism and fascism during the Second World War. Their contribution is often ignored or minimized , but when you think it took only six weeks for Germany to defeat France in 1940, France knows that Africans could be useful in the struggle for Size of France in the future. Conlusion the relationship between France and Africa. First, France is seriously addicted to plunder and exploitation of Africa since the days of slavery. Then there is the complete lack of creativity and imagination of the French elite to think beyond the past and tradition. Finally, France has 2 institutions that are completely frozen in the past, inhabited by paranoid psychopath Top Officials spreading fear of the Apocalypse if France would change , and the ideological reference always comes Romanticism 19th century : they are the Minister of Finance and Budget of France and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France . These two institutions are not only a threat for Africa, but the French themselves. The question we might ask the French colonial tax Until when ? For historical comparison , France has made Haiti pay the equivalent of 21 billion from 1804 to 1947 ( nearly a century and a half ) for losses caused to French slave traders by the abolition of slavery and the liberation of slaves in Haiti . source : Trendy Culture History . Note Mawuna KOUTONIN
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