Ivory Coast: Could Russia and the rest of the Brics resolve the 10 years crisis in one go ?

"Alassane Ouattara, warlord of the armed rebellion , became head of state by the military willpower  of France": Alain Tousaint

The interview with Mr. Toussaint Alain, a former adviser and former spokesman for the President of Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo (president from 2000 to 2011).

Mikhail Egorov-Gamandiy, The Voice of Russia: Alain, hello! You are a former adviser and former spokesman Ivorian president overthrown in April 2011, Mr. Laurent Gbagbo. Today you are President of "Côte d'Ivoire Coalition, INC." and actively continue to stand still  for Mr. Laurent Gbagbo, coup victim . We know that this coup was not achieved without the participation of the French armed forces, talking of the famous "Licorne" and UNOCI. Thank you for this exclusive interview with The Voice of Russia, your first interview with a Russian media.

Alain, we know that Mr. Laurent Gbagbo was overthrown in April 2011, with the active participation of French military troops, including aviation. Since 30 November 2011, Gbagbo was imprisoned in the prison of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. My first question: what do you think of a part of the legitimacy of the actions perpetrated by Licorne and UNOCI in Côte d'Ivoire as well as the legitimacy of the detention of Mr Gbagbo in the Hague?
Toussaint Alain: President Laurent Gbagbo was the victim of a demonstration of colonial power. The French government has interfered so outrageous and intolerable in the post-election disputes of a sovereign country. Its armed forces  installed Alassane Ouattara at the head of my country , the instigator of the armed uprising of September 2002. For a decade, France, political, diplomatic, military and financial support of the rebellion, was at the initiative of all UN resolutions in the Ivorian crisis. She manipulated the Security Council of the United Nations because she wanted at all costs Gbagbo out, though legitimately elected in October 2000.  In the eyes of the French leaders, especially Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy, the former Ivorian socialist government constituted a serious threat to the sustainability of France's interests in Côte d'Ivoire. The fate of President Gbagbo was sealed long ago. He had to leave even at the cost of an absurd war although  winner of the presidential election of November 2010. A recount, as recommended by Gbagbo himself, would have solved the election problem and definitively establish the truth in Côte d'Ivoire. Instead, the "international community", led by France and the United States , preferred counting gruesome deaths rather than recount of ballots. Gbagbo has not lost the election, he was ousted by the war. Alassane Ouattara was imposed on the head of my country in a plot were the line-force was to stop Laurent Gbagbo. In January 2003, after the signing of the Marcoussis Agreement, the French authorities have threatened to bring him before the International Criminal Court (ICC). He pays a high price for his disobedience to the former coloniser. Detention of President Laurent Gbagbo to The Hague is illegal, arbitrary and unfounded. The ICC is a court serving the major Western powers. It does not speak the right, it is politics.In fact everything is decided at UNSC.
VR :In a letter from you to the Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki-Moon, you openly accuse France and the United States of orchestrating the  military-election coup. Which interests France and the United States wanted to protect by intervening in the affairs of the sovereign state, which is the Ivory Coast? In which way  Laurent Gbagbo  was an obstacle to them ?
Toussaint Alain:Submit to France or be removed by France, was the dilemma of President Gbagbo. President Gbagbo made the right choice by preferring sovereignty to subordination, dignity againt indignity. What happened in my country reopens the question of the African independence and colonial domination of the former power on its former African possessions. Laurent Gbagbo is the propitiatory victim of a  system: Françafrique, a mafia serving French interests in Africa. In Côte d'Ivoire, France controls almost all of the Ivorian economy. Côte d'Ivoire is the first world producer of cocoa: when you buy a chocolate bar, there is a 99% chance that cocoa comes from my country. This is also a new offshore oil producer: the French group Total will operate. Several major French companies also operate in strategic sectors such as Harbor  and rail (Bolloré), the fixed and mobile (Orange), water and electricity (Bouygues), import and sale of new vehicles and pharmaceuticals (François Pinault / PPR), the banks (Societe Generale and BNP Paribas), etc.. On the audiovisual market Canal + has exclusive satellite TV. Côte d'Ivoire is home to at least 200 subsidiaries of French companies with more than 600 companies belonging to French nationals. There are also other areas that explain the rampant neo-colonialism: coffee, timber, cotton, gold, precious stones ... Finally, almost all of the market post-crisis reconstruction should go to French civilian or military companies . Including the renewal of the Ivorian arms destroyed by the French army. It's a shame! In Côte d'Ivoire, France is not defending democracy, it defends its interests. As to the United States, it is mainly about the ​​interest of cocoa and oil from the Guinea Gulf  . Côte d'Ivoire has large reserves. In addition, Americans are still looking for an area to host Africom, their military command for Africa.
President Gbagbo opened the Ivorian market to , Chinese investors, Russia, South Africa, Brazil and India. This has greatly angered and worried the French leaders and bosses.
VR :Laurent Gbagbo is accused in The Hague for "crimes against humanity". Yet, you also mentioned elsewhere in your letter to the Secretary General of the UN, it is now clear that many massacres were perpetrated by pro-Ouattara militias, notably the Duékoué where nearly one thousand civilians were killed. And yet, strangely, Laurent Gbagbo is now imprisoned in the Hague, and Alassane Ouattara is welcomed and received by the heads of Western governments. Is it not the manifestation of a genuine policy of double standards.
Toussaint Alain: The "international community" has clearly established  the rule of victors' justice. I always denounced the bias of this procedure. The ICC is an instrument of France, which is used to satisfy his dark designs policies to dictate the political landscape in Africa, helping their friends to power or punishing recalcitrant African leaders. Gbagbo's detention in The Hague is senseless and unjust. In this case, the ICC is more politics than judiciary . It is illusory to think that it would be guided by the search for truth. Alassane Ouattara, Guillaume Soro and their mercenaries are primarily responsible for the violence in Côte d'Ivoire. From the beginning of the post-election crisis, a commando "invisible", led by Ouattara and Soro employees, has perpetrated the deadly attacks against security forces and civilians in Abidjan. These fighters have committed thousands of crimes since September 2002. For which raison Laurent Gbagbo, Head of State and Supreme Commander of the armed he should have let the people being massacred by the rebels without asking the army to intervene to stop the killings? Without the reaction of the government troops, hundreds of villages would had been wiped off the map of Côte d'Ivoire Ouattara troops. Gbagbo cannot objectively been  accuses for crimes against civilians.
I recall that this whole crisis is born of electoral disputes that could be resolved by simply recount. Unfortunately, Ouattara and France flatly refused this solution. They chose a military aggression to seize power. I indexed  the Secretary General of the UN ruling that the recount would be an "injustice". Via a criminal resolution  Ban Ki-Moon has authorized the French army and UN troops to bomb civilians. Ouattara, the "democrat" is actually a warlord, a usurper, dubbed by the Western powers.
VR :Do you think that one day those responsible for crimes you mentioned can be brought to justice? Don't you think that the time has come to create an alternative to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, whose role is extremely controversial?
Toussaint Alain: Actually, Alassane Ouattara,  the warlord of the armed rebellion , became head of state by the military willpower of France, the United States and the United Nations at the end of an electoral putsch. It is accountable to justice for all the crimes committed by his troops. As is  Guillaume Soro, political and military leader of the rebellion, former prime minister and now president of the Ivorian parliament. These two eminent leaders of the rebellion recruited and funded with their French sponsors, tens of thousands of mercenaries responsible for the death of at least ten thousand people since September 2002. All these victims and those incurred during the post-electoral disputes deserve justice. Unlike others, I am arguing instead for a national justice. We can not pretend to defend the sovereignty of his country and outsource legal cases before the ICC. It is up to Ivorian leaders, present and future of Côte d'Ivoire to strengthen credibility and the judiciary. This is an essential pillar of the rule of law. Ouattara and Soro will not indefinitely have an impunity patent .
VR: What steps do you take to secure the release of Laurent Gbagbo?
Toussaint Alain:Gbagbo is a genuine African, a veteran of the sovereignty and independence of our continent. It has always been a defender of democracy and African dignity. As Patrice Lumumba and Nelson Mandela, Laurent Gbagbo made the Africans see the brilliance of their dignity and the possibility of freedom. Alongside my fellow Ivorian diaspora, Africans and people of good will, we are fighting to free Gbagbo. In fact, we will not be free again until the day President Gbagbo regain his freedom. For eighteen months, I travel the world to meet with policy makers, human rights, media, participate in civic actions (marches, sit-ins) or hold public meetings to raise awareness of the situation in Côte d'Ivoire. Beyond Gbagbo, we believe in the future generations. There is no complex to become free men and women after centuries of slavery and servitude a century of colonisation, humiliation and plunder of natural resources of the subsoil Africa. I am a privileged witness to the history of Africa. I take my part in the awakening of consciousness.
VR :How is Laurent Gbagbo?
Toussaint Alain: It is always a delicate exercise to discuss the physical or moral of a prisoner, especially when it is a political prisoner unjustly incarcerated . Just know that President Gbagbo is confident. It looks with serenity the various stages of the proceedings at the ICC. This man is innocent!
VR : What is the current situation in Côte d'Ivoire?
Toussaint Alain :I will not beat around the bush to tell you that Côte d'Ivoire  lives under a state of emergency, a real dictatorship. Ouattara tribal militias  make the law throughout the territory: abuses, daily targeted killings and looting. Insecurity reigns everywhere due to the circulation of small arms due to the non-disarmment of the troops (at least 100,000 mercenaries) who served as auxiliaries to the UN and French forces in the war against President Laurent Gbagbo. It is idle people, offenders and criminals released from prisons during the pro-Ouattara forces offensives , composed of rebels, mercenaries, mostly Liberian, Sierra Leone, Senegalese, Burkina Faso, Nigerian ... The opposition can not hold public meetings. Several hundred political leaders, grassroots activists, and journalists are being held incommunicado by the regime of Ouattara. In the north of the country, region held by the new power, has been transformed into a gulag. The free press is regularly banned from publication. Public universities have been closed for over a year. Economically and socially, the sustaining power of households is reduced as a trickle. Unemployment is rampant. The current authorities are engaged in a witch hunt: the supporters of the former are referred to the administration. In general, the state is disintegrating social fabric disolving, corruption has reached an endemic level, investors are wary of the instability. The arrival of Ouattara has brought neither peace nor development. Everything is  to be redone.
 VR :Last question. After many interventions  of Western countries including NATO in the affairs of sovereign nations, according to that you  what should countries such as Russia, China, the African leader - South Africa - and more generally BRICS countries and all other countries and forces of the world who refuse this domination and neo-colonialist do?
Toussaint Alain :In one word, Africa must cease to suffer the will of a foreign power whatsoever. However, our continent is currently a victim of an unprecedented crusade  from major Western powers. This minority member of of the UN Security Council whom she  exploits to suit her interests, imposes her diktat to the weak(third world) through the UN resolutions. We must organize, find alternatives, create a new balance of brute force against the mighty. We need to forge new relationships, new equitable partnerships with emerging countries such as Brazil, Russia, China, South Africa and India. Only the transfer of technology can save Africa. We must also address our military weakness to protect our people and our wealth predators. Because the real motives of Western military interventions in Africa are economic. The defense of "democracy" and human rights are a blanket. The United States and the countries of the European Union depend more on crude oil in Africa. To take advantage of this supply, they must act on governance and stability of our countries by installing puppet in their service. Africa must necessarily turn to other stakeholders. In addition, its voice deserves to be taken into consideration. It is high time that an African country a gains a  permanent seat in the Security Council of the UN. Russia and China could advance this cause.Voice of Russia: Mr. Toussaint Alain, thank you for this exclusive interview.


Source:The Voice of Russia

UN WATCH IVORY COAST endorses the declations of Mr Toussaint Alain and makes some further comment in regards to the whole situation in Ivory Coast. To start with the resolution

resolution 1572 (2004) concerning Côte d’Ivoire is a scandalous resolution since it has been initiated and drafted by France which was in conflict with Ivory Coast. No a single serous international institution not tun by the mafia can accept that a criminal being a the prosecutor and the judge at once. The method hasn't changed in the UNSC France still hold his post of at the head of the peace keeping mission for almost a decade French succeeded to French. And in Ivory Coast we know what happened since 2002 as Mr Toussaint Alain described without going through an exposee  of the plot against Ivory Coast  that lasted 30 years . In 2004 on fabrication and allegations basis France decides on her own to initiate and draft  a resolution  regarding Ivory coast just after destroying the Ivorian Air Force. Why no one on the UNSN opposed it when way was completely illegal in any way whether in regard to logic or the UN charter. A country involved in a conflict cannot initiate and draft a resolution against the country she's conflicting with based on her own "investigation" and even worse be part of the impartial forces sent to that enemy nation...It's a joke some would say but that's what this so called resolution is about. Now going from that we should scrap the whole resolution and re investigate the case with real independant expert not like those we heard few weeks ago making a mockery of our intelligence.....The sources of the investigation tell the whole story. The French and American Ambassy in Ivory Coast as well as Ouattara regime without the account of the opposition party....And yet they supposed to be expert and do not know the basic method of investigation....I think it all depends if one has the time t waste listening a bunch of Mafiosos . I would not advise any serious person or entity  bringing this to the UN unless we want make a joke . It's unfortunate hundred of thousand people are killed in  various countries based on the same kind of laughable "investigations" :http://unwatchivorycoast.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/fake-un-report-on-pro-gbagbo-whole.html

Now on Tuesday 30 October 2012 at the Hague a hearing was held and Laurent Gbagbo's defense lawyer has urged the International Criminal Court to release the legal Ivory Coast president from pretrial custody, saying he has no intention fleing justice.  But prosecutor Gilles Dutertre has warned the court Gbagbo has a network of supporters prepared  to return him to power if he is freed. Now when a criminal court is worry about the return to power of a prisoner against whom they have up to date not a single proof but only allegations then iy's clear admission that not only he won the election but we dealing win a political case not a criminal one. Yes Gbagbo continues to have the majority of the Ivorian people who democraticallly elected him to power back to his post as president . That's what they elected him  for before been overthrown by France and the UN then kidnapped and kept at the Hague. So what the  ICC expect the people of Ivory Coast to do ? In fact the Ivorian still holding their challenge against anyone who doubt that Gbgbo won the elections, to come and recount the ballots or make simple referendum.

The virdict on this hearing hasn't be given yet by the judge 2 days after we still waiting but the key to that silence might be in what Mr Toussaint Alain said above :"The ICC is a court serving the major Western powers. It does not speak the right, it is politics.In fact everythingg is decided at UNSC."  Yes the UNSC is still trying to make a decision based on the the fake report from the "experts" so until this mafia decides the judge cannot give the verdict. Now the question is why Russia never asked to be part of the investigations team or even delegate some other countries since its has the power to do so as permanent member ?