Negócios com Luís Figo

Mit Schweizer Firmen manipulierte ein Deutscher jahrelang die Börsenkurse und behauptete, mit dem Fussballstar Luis Figo im Geschäft zu sein. Eine dreiste Lüge - nun setzte es ein Urteil ab. Von Christian Bütikofer 13.05.2013 Peter Sommer aus Duisburg liess in Sachen Börsentricks mit Schweizer Aktienmänteln wenig aus. Der zwischenzeitlich in Dakar-Ngor, Senegal anzutreffende Geschäftsmann wurde vom Landgericht München wegen Insiderhandels und Marktmanipulation zu fünf Jahren und drei Monaten Gefängnis verurteilt. Sommer war in der Schweiz mit der Zuger West Africa Mining Holding AG unterwegs. Auch in der First Invest Capital Holding, ebenfalls mit Domizil Zug, hatte er die Finger im Topf. Täuschen, fälschen, Märchenonkel spielen Das Landgericht München stellte fest, dass der 45-jährige Geschäftsmann seit 2007 die Börsenkurse von nicht weniger als sechs Aktiengesellschaften manipuliert hatte und damit Millionen abzügelte. Während er Kapitalaufstockungen vortäuschte, fälschte sein inzwischen verstorbener Schwager Bankbestätigungen. Auch Erklärungen der Aufsichtsräte wurden fingiert. Für die West Africa Mining Holding täuschte Peter Sommer seine Opfer, indem er ihnen erzählte, der Fussballstar Luis Figo sei einer seiner Investoren. Der vorbestrafte Geschäftsmann sei raffiniert vorgegangen, sagte die vorsitzende Richterin: «Es wurden alle Register gezogen.» Für das künstliche Hochtreiben der wertlosen Aktien bediente sich Sommer der bezahlten Dienste von Tobias Bosler, eine für diese Art Geschäfte einschlägig bekannte Figur.

Bissau: O interesse britânico

The United Kingdom Parliament’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Guinea-Bissau was officially constituted on Tuesday, 18th January 2011. Mission Statement To promote knowledge and awareness of issues of mutual concern between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau; to facilitate inter-parliamentary and inter-governmental relations; to highlight matters of concern to the United Kingdom, including security sector reform, counter-terrorism affairs, British inward investment, good governance and human rights. Overview The Republic of Guinea-Bissau, which has experienced a turbulent history since independence in 1974, is one of the poorest nations on earth (175/177 on the UN Human Development Index), deserving more attention from the United Kingdom than ever before. The country is widely acknowledged to be one of the world’s international drug trafficking hubs, impacting on the security and welfare of British people. The United Kingdom has already been a stakeholder in European Union projects in the country including security sector reform, landmine removal, disease eradication and maritime affairs. British activity in Guinea-Bissau extends as far back as the early 19th century. Moreover, Guinea-Bissau, as a country rich in agricultural and mineral resources, is experiencing an increasing amount of economic interest from British companies, resulting in inward investment and trade. Today, the main focus of the All-Party Parliamentary Group is to share experience with the process of National Reconciliation in the Guinean Assembly.

Israel persegue cristãos

Published on The Occidental Observer by Enza Ferreri Israel’s unfair treatment of Christians continues. At the end of June, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested Greek Orthodox Bishop Atallah Hanna during his peaceful participation in a march protesting the illegal seizure and subsequent sale of Beit al-Baraka hospital, which is part of al-Baraka church, north of Hebron. A month ago Palestine News Network reported: A delegation from the Presbyterian church as well as international and Israeli activists participated in the march against the sale of Beit al-Baraka, a hospital which provided medical services to Palestinians as part of al-Baraka church services. The sale is illegal under international and canonical law… Israeli newspaper Haaretz last month leaked details of the seizure of Beit al-Baraka hospital by a Jewish billionaire, the sale having been allegedly made through a fake Norwegian real estate company. Days after publication of this illegal seizure, the sale process halted, however Israeli Defense Minister, Moshe Ya’alon, subsequently decided that there was no legal impediment to the sale of the building. The previous week saw one of the most serious episodes of violence in recent memory against Christians in Israel. Five teams of firefighters were necessary to put out the flames which at dawn woke up Tabgha, the area on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, in northern Israel, where Jesus fed the 5,000 with the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes (Mark 6:30-46) and where Jesus appeared for the fourth time after his resurrection following his Crucifixion (John 21:1-24). A fire broke out at the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish, built on the site of the miracle, in the middle of the night, “causing extensive damage to the inside and outside of the building, said Israel police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.” A monk and a church volunteer were hospitalised from smoke inhalation. A spokesman for the fire brigade said that the blaze broke out in several places inside the limestone church, evidence that it was started deliberately. Hebrew graffiti had been spray-painted in red on a wall outside the church, reading "False gods will be destroyed”, a passage from the Aleinu Leshabeach, a prayer recited by practising Jews at the end of each of the three daily services, suggesting that Jewish zealots were responsible. So much for the much-vaunted "Judaeo-Christian tradition". These Israeli Jews didn't get the memo. Police briefly detained 16 young Jewish settlers, all religious Jewish seminary students visiting the Sea of Galilee area from settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. They were freed within hours. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said that 10 of those detained were from Yitzhar, which is known as a bastion of extremists and where some residents have been involved in previous hate crimes. The Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish is one of the Holy Land’s most famous Catholic churches and one of the places most visited by pilgrims to the Holy Land, with more than 5,000 people visiting it daily. The church had to be closed for a few days due to the fire damage. Nahum Weisfish, a Jerusalem rabbi, said the site might have been targeted because it housed a synagogue some 2,000 years ago. The site is owned by the German Roman Catholic Church, and Berlin's envoy to Israel Andreas Michaelis said he was "shocked" by the incident, adding: "Religious institutions must be as well protected in Israel as they are in Germany and Europe." That’s exactly the point. If Israel wants to be considered as a Western democracy, it’s no good to argue that Christians in the Jewish state are not butchered and tortured with the degree of barbarity we find in Muslim countries and Muslim-controlled areas. The difference pointed out between Israel and other Middle Eastern nations is true, but the right object of comparison for a country which claims to be part of the West should be Western democracies. Zionists have to stress how concerned they are about the fate of Christians in the Middle East at the hands of murderous Muslims to keep the Evangelicals supporting their cause. That doesn't stop Israel from secretly helping the worst murderers of Christians: ISIS. Tabgha had been subjected to a previous attack in April 2014. Father Matthias Karl, a German monk at the church, explained that a group of religious Jewish teenagers had pelted worshippers with stones, destroyed a cross and threw benches into the lake. In April, vandals smashed gravestones at a Maronite Christian cemetery near Israel's northern border with Lebanon. In recent years, many mosques and churches have been vandalised in both Israel and the West Bank. The attacks are often attributed to extremist Jews, particularly from West Bank settlements, but, despite condemnations and promises of crackdown on religiously-inspired hate crime by Israeli politicians, few have been convicted. The Rabbis for Human Rights group says there have been 43 hate crime attacks on churches, mosques and monasteries in Israel and the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since 2009. Many of these are so-called "price-tag" attacks, carried out against Israeli security forces as well as Palestinian property, both Muslim and Christian, in reprisal for Israeli government’s action against the Jewish illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The name indicates that these attacks are the price to pay for anti-settlement activity. The US State Department's 2013 Country Reports on Terrorism included price-tag attacks for the first time. It says: “In August, the Beit Jamal Monastery near Jerusalem was firebombed and spray-painted with the words “death to the Gentiles” and other slogans.” It quotes UN figures of “399 attacks by extremist Israeli settlers that resulted in Palestinian injuries or property damage.” It adds that such attacks were “largely unprosecuted according to UN and NGO sources.” Whenever there is mention of the UN, Zionists reject wholesale every one of its pronouncements or reports because it is "pro-Palestinian". The implication is that it is biased. They often argue that all Muslim countries, through the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), vote as a bloc in the UN, thus skewing the vote results in favour of the Palestinians and against Israel. OIC is a 57-member state organisation representing 1.5 billion Muslims around the world. As the largest Islamic organization in the world, it is quite powerful and the largest voting bloc in the UN. Could it be that the UN is "pro-Palestinian" because of the right of return that Israel denies that people or the 3/4 of a million illegal settlers in Israel’s occupied territories? Israel’s Joint Arab List party alliance, in the wake of the latest attack, that against the Church of the Multiplication, called for the immediate dismissal of Israel's police chief, Yohanan Danino, and for Right-wing extremist groups to be declared terrorist organisations. It also accused the government of doing nothing to control extremist Right-wing organisations: "Netanyahu stands at the head of the incitement system against the Arab public in Israel, and he is guilty of the revenge attacks we witness in the morning news," the party stated. "A so-called price-tag attack is not an act by deviants, but rather an act by calculated, thinking people that are indicative of the existence and repercussions of institutionalized racism and oppression." Prime Minister Netanyahu has used strong words against the recent unknown vandals, but it’s impossible not to notice that the perpetrators of this kind of crime have almost never been identified, captured and put on trial. Isn’t it a bit strange, in a country which has an impressive and efficient security and police apparatus? In 2014, just before Pope Francis’ visit to Israel, in Jerusalem both the Romanian Orthodox Church and the Notre Dame Center, the large Christian complex just outside the Old City, were covered with offensive graffiti. Before that, the Franciscan Church near the Last Supper Room, the Dormition Abbey and a nearby Christian cemetery were attacked. In 2012, using methods similar to those employed in Tabghah, the Latrun Trappist Monastery had been attacked. People tried and sentenced? Nil. With all the best will in the world, it’s a bit hard to see Netanyahu as someone who doggedly pursues Jewish vandals coming from the settlements. That’s because Netanyahu is and has always been the settlements’ number one supporter. When Ariel Sharon decided to withdraw from Gaza in 2004, Netanyahu left his government in protest. In the last twenty years the surface occupied by Israeli settlements in the occupied territories has grown by over 180%, and for at least half of this time Netanyahu has been Prime Minister. The last act of the previous Netanyahu government, the one that led to the disintegration of the government and early elections, was its approval of the law that defines Israel as the "state of the Jewish nation", potentially discriminating against ethnic and religious minorities. In short, all of Netanyahu’s political action has been in favour of the settlements policy. He has drawn a growing political support from it. The reality is that today the settlers are those who dictate the political trend in Israel. Their interests influence the agenda of governments. The intransigence of those who hold the front line, even risking their lives, is to be respected. The rest, including arsons, is just a consequence. 28 de Julho de 2015 Read more: http://enzaferreri.blogspot.com

Israel apoia Estado Islâmico

I think that there are two prominent phenomena which will soon make people aware of the fundamental importance and extent of the Jewish question in the present world. The first phenomenon is the existence of Israel, a prime signal of Jewish ethnocentrism’s inevitable double standard when compared to the ethnically and culturally pluralist attitudes of Diaspora Jews in the West. The second phenomenon is the exposure of how easy it is for Jews to ally themselves with (or taking the side of) Muslims, if it suits their interest either in their war against the White gentiles — their perceived main Western enemies — or in other ways. Among major examples of this tendency are European Jewry’s “heightened empathy and sympathy for Islam” and invention of the myth of Islamic tolerance; and the Jewish collaboration with Muslims during the invasion of Christian Spain. Both phenomena are on display in the Middle East’s current events. I’m referring to the recent UN documents revealing Israel’s support for ISIS and al-Qaeda in Syria. The Syrian ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar Ja’afari, has long complained of a conspiracy of Zionists and Syrian rebels to overthrow the country’s President Bashar Assad. Mr. Ja’afari has declared that the extremists have an “undeclared alliance with Israel and are engaged in a secret agreement” with its regime. Now, a United Nations report seems to vindicate his claims. It reveals that Israel has been doing more than simply treating wounded Syrian civilians in hospitals, and details direct regular contacts between Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officers and armed Syrian opposition fighters, working closely together in the Golan Heights since the spring of 2013. Thanks to the American intervention which got rid of Saddam Hussein — and ultimately to the US Jewish neoconservative movement and Israel lobby that instigated it ideologically and politically, Iraq, once the strongest supporter of Palestinians (yes, contrary to popular Zionist assertions, they do exist), is weak and divided. So it’s time to turn to another stable player in the region and potential enemy of Israel: Syria. The protracted civil war on the Syrian government is depleting the country’s army and devastating its infrastructure; rebuilding them will preoccupy Syria for a long time and defuse any military threat from it to Israel. Covertly, Israel is a crucial key player in prolonging this war and is the major beneficiary of maintaining what the Israeli pundit Amos Harel called the “stable instability” in Syria and the region. But several recent developments have exposed Israel’s no longer discreet role, among which is the UN documentation. The new report was the work of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) — UN observers in the Golan Heights — and was submitted to the 15 members of the UN Security Council at the beginning of December 2014. The UNDOF 1,200-strong observer forces — contributed by six countries — have been monitoring since 1974 a buffer zone between Israel and Syria on the Golan Heights, stretching about 70 kilometers from Lebanon in the north to Jordan in the south. Reports by the UNDOF are regularly submitted to the UN Security Council, and since March 2013 have started to show that Israel admits wounded Syrians into the country for medical treatment in hospitals. Initially the IDF claimed that this was only for medical assistance for civilians, but then UN observers witnessed direct contact between IDF forces and ISIS fighters. The UN reports said that 89 rebels were transported into the Israeli-occupied zone between March and May 2014, while activists in southern Deraa province and in Quneitra quoted in media reports claim that communications increased between rebels and the Israeli military before the eruption of heavy clashes in the area. Israel’s health ministry says about 1,000 Syrians have been treated in Israeli hospitals. In answer to a question by i24News on whether Israel hospitalises members of al-Nusra Front (the al-Qaeda terror group in Syria) and Daesh (the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State, or ISIS), an Israeli military spokesman’s office admitted: “In the past two years the Israel Defense Forces have been engaged in humanitarian, life-saving aid to wounded Syrians, irrespective of their identity.” Syria maintains that it has “information indicating that there were undercover agents among the wounded Syrians recently treated by Israel”: She further claimed that Israeli officers are operating in Syria and monitoring the fighting in the war-torn country… Assad himself told an Argentinean newspaper a few months ago that Israel is assisting the rebels fighting to topple his regime. “Israel is directly supporting the terrorist groups in two ways,” he claimed. “Firstly it gives them logistical support, and it also tells them what sites to attack and how to attack them.” UN observations have been cut short, in part due to attacks on UN monitors by the very terrorists Israel is suspected of associating with — attacks that managed to prevent any further documentation. Israel’s ties to militants have long been documented. In November 2014 members of Israel’s Druze minority published a statement accusing the Israeli government of supporting all factions fighting against the Syrian government, including al-Nusra — the militant group loyal to al-Qaeda — and the Islamic State, not only by offering them medical care but also by supplying them with weapons. The Druze group had issued similar warnings in the past. Whenever Israel strikes at Syria, it strikes at the only viable nation fighting ISIS in the region. The main — if not only — force providing a defence for regional minorities, including Christians, Jews, Druzes and Muslims of all sects, is the Syrian Arab Army. Attacking it undermines its ability to curb what can otherwise become uncontrolled genocide carried out by extremists. The UN and other reports have described transfer of crates of unspecified supplies from the IDF to militant rebels, sightings of IDF soldiers meeting with Syrian insurgents, and cases of Israeli soldiers opening up the fence to allow Syrians through who didn’t appear to be injured. Witnesses on a late December’s RT TV documentary said they had seen Israeli forces in talks with armed, militant anti-Assad fighters. Foreign Policy wrote: Ehud Yaari, an Israeli fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy [WINEP] and an expert on the Golan Heights, said that Israel is supplying Syrian villages with medicines, heaters, and other humanitarian supplies. The assistance, he said, has benefited civilians and insurgents. Given that Yaari is Israeli and given that WINEP is a pillar of the Israel Lobby, Israeli assistance may in fact go well beyond humanitarian aid. This is part of a continuing process. In early December 2014 Syrian officials demanded the UN impose sanctions on Israel after Tel Aviv conducted airstrikes in the areas of Dimas, known to contain military bases and research centres, and Damascus International Airport, damaging some facilities. This was the seventh major unprovoked air strike by Israel on Syrian defences since 2011 and the fifth in the previous 18 months. The Syrians said the attack was a heinous crime against their sovereignty by a country that doesn’t hide its policy of supporting terrorism. Israel claimed that it was a “defensive measure,” as Syria was “hiding sophisticated weaponry destined for Hezbollah in Lebanon”. It is odd, however, that Israel attacks what it labels “regional threats” in Damascus while providing sanctuaries for terrorist groups like al-Nusra and ISIS by allowing them to maintain tanks and artillery along its borders. That Israel’s aid to terrorist insurgents in Syria is not limited to medical assistance was also evident from what The Times of Israel reported in August 2014: A Free Syrian Army commander, arrested last month by the Islamist militia Al-Nusra Front, told his captors he collaborated with Israel in return for medical and military support, in a video released this week … “The [opposition] factions would receive support and send the injured in [to Israel] on condition that the Israeli fence area is secured. No person was allowed to come near the fence without prior coordination with Israel authorities,” Safouri said in the video. … Following the meetings, Israel began providing Safouri and his men with “basic medical support and clothes” as well as weapons, which included 30 Russian [rifles], 10 RPG launchers with 47 rockets, and 48,000 5.56 millimeter bullets. In March 2014, Haaretz reported: The Syrian opposition is willing to give up claims to the Golan Heights in return for cash and Israeli military aid against President Bashar Assad, a top opposition official told Al Arab newspaper, according to a report in Al Alam… The Western-backed militant groups want Israel to enforce a no-fly zone over parts of southern Syria to protect rebel bases from air strikes by Assad’s forces, according to the report. On 20 January 2015, Foreign Affairs interviewed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who accused the IDF of conspiring with al-Qaeda. Asked what he thought Israel’s agenda is, he replied: “They are supporting the rebels in Syria. It’s very clear. Because whenever we make advances in some place, they make an attack in order to undermine the army. It’s very clear. That’s why some in Syria joke: “How can you say that al Qaeda doesn’t have an air force? They have the Israeli air force [a reference to its attacks on regime and Hezbollah positions in Syria].”… “The question that we have is, how much will does the United States have to really fight terrorism on the ground? So far, we haven’t seen anything concrete in spite of the attacks on ISIS in northern Syria. There’s nothing concrete. What we’ve seen so far is just, let’s say, window-dressing, nothing real. Since the beginning of these attacks, ISIS has gained more land in Syria and Iraq.”… So are you saying you want greater U.S. involvement in the war against ISIS? “It’s not about greater involvement by the military, because it’s not only about the military; it’s about politics. It’s about how much the United States wants to influence the Turks. Because if the terrorists can withstand the air strikes for this period, it means that the Turks keep sending them armaments and money. Did the United States put any pressure on Turkey to stop the support of al Qaeda? They didn’t; they haven’t.”… So are you suggesting there should be U.S. troops on the ground? “Not U.S. troops. I’m talking about the principle, the military principle. I’m not saying American troops. If you want to say I want to make war on terrorism, you have to have troops on the ground. The question you have to ask the Americans is, which troops are you going to depend on? Definitely, it has to be Syrian troops. This is our land; this is our country. We are responsible. We don’t ask for American troops at all.”… The US has backed the Syrian insurgents since early in the civil war, and is planning to train over 5,000 “vetted” rebels. During the same interview Assad argued that such US plans are “illusory” as these rebels would eventually defect to the jihadists: “They are going to be fought like any other illegal militia fighting against the Syrian army.” There are no “moderate rebels” in Syria. Even the groups and leaders considered moderate by the West openly admit that they are working closely with the extremists and the most radical, who always end up having control over the anti-Assad opposition. Terrorist al-Nusra and the “moderate” Free Syrian Army have collaborated in the battlefield against the Assad regime. In short, Israel is supporting ISIS and terrorists. And, even if the fantasy of moderate rebels were reality, helping these people would mean distracting and using up Assad’s resources for the battle against them, thus weakening the only viable force fighting ISIS in the region. As the Syrian government has been saying since 2011, Syria is engaged in a war not against its own people or “pro-democracy” forces, but against extremists and terrorists. Last January’s Foreign Affairs interview with Assad quoted above has an interesting ending: If you were able to deliver a message to President Obama today, what would it be? “I think the normal thing that you ask any official in the world is to work for the interests of his people. And the question I would ask any American is, what do you get from supporting terrorists in our country, in our region? What did you get from supporting the Muslim Brotherhood a few years ago in Egypt and other countries? What did you get from supporting someone like Erdogan?” These policies are not in the interests of the US but seemingly for Israel: supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, like invading Iraq, has served to destabilise the consolidated powers in the region. Assad continued: “You [Americans] are the greatest power in the world now; you have too many things to disseminate around the world: knowledge, innovation, IT, with its positive repercussions. How can you be the best in these fields yet the worst in the political field? This is a contradiction. That is what I think the American people should analyze and question. Why do you fail in every war? You can create war, you can create problems, but you cannot solve any problem. Twenty years of the peace process in Palestine and Israel, and you cannot do anything with this, in spite of the fact that you are a great country.” [Emphasis added] All this seems nonsensical and contradictory if you indeed start from the premise that US foreign and domestic policies are meant to benefit the US. But it immediately becomes rational if you see that American elites are at war with their own people and don’t act with their best interest at heart. But in the context of Syria, what would a better policy look like? One that preserves stability in the Middle East. Syria is the heart of the Middle East. Everybody knows that. If the Middle East is sick, the whole world will be unstable. In 1991, when we started the peace process, we had a lot of hope. Now, after more than 20 years, things are not at square one; they’re much below that square. So the policy should be to help peace in the region, to fight terrorism, to promote secularism, to support this area economically, to help upgrade the mind and society, like you did in your country. That is the supposed mission of the United States, not to launch wars. Launching war doesn’t make you a great power.” Assad’s suggested strategy is reasonable but is the opposite of what America is pursuing, because stability in the Middle East, by making Israel’s enemies stronger, is not in the interest of the Jewish state. Which, while publicly condemning them, doesn’t hesitate to side with and help the terrorist groups capable of committing the worst atrocities, including beheading children, using women as sex slaves, and setting men on fire. Enza Ferreri, Occidental Observer 13 de Fevereiro de 2015 Enza Ferreri is an Italian-born, London-based Philosophy graduate, writer and journalist. She has been a London correspondent for several Italian magazines and newspapers, including Panorama, L’Espresso, La Repubblica. She blogs at www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk.

Bissau: Diplomas de mérito

O Bureau Politico reuniu na sua 5ª sessão extraordinária ao abrigo do artigo 34 número 1 dos Estatutos, no salão-biblioteca da Sede Nacional sob a presidência do camarada Eng. Domingos Simões Pereira, Presidente do PAIGC, tendo aprovado três pontos na sua agenda de trabalho, nomeadamente: 1) escolha do candidato ao cargo de Primeiro-Ministro; 2)aplicação das resoluções da 4ª reunião extraordinária do Bureau Politico; e 3) informação sobre a preparação das comemorações do “Setembro Vitorioso”. Em relação ao ponto concernente a escolha do candidato ao cargo de Primeiro-Ministro a 5ª reunião extraordinária do Bureau Politico aprovou a indigitação do camarada Eng. Carlos Correia, Primeiro Vice-Presidente, como candidato do PAIGC ao cargo de Primeiro-Ministro, depois de aceitar o expresso pedido de impedimento apresentado pelo Presidente do Partido ate ao total e completo esclarecimento que uma Comissão de Inquérito criada pela Assembleia Nacional Popular sobre as graves acusações proferidas pelo Senhor Presidente da Republica na sua alocução ao pais proferida a 12 de Agosto ultimo sobre a gestão do Governo de Inclusão. Sobre o ponto dois da agenda, o Bureau Politico, tendo em conta que o Conselho Nacional de Jurisdição não terminou os seus trabalhos decidiu reportar este ponto para uma próxima sessão deste órgão. No que tange ao terceiro ponto, o programa comemorativo do “Setembro Vitorioso” mereceu uma sucinta explicação ao Bureau Politico, que se congratulou pela esforço e tenacidade militante como a sua organização tem merecido da parte da Comissão criada para o efeito. A reunião do Bureau Político ficou marcada pela aprovação de uma Moção de Louvor ao Presidente do PAIGC pela sua coragem, elevado espírito de militância e um patriotismo, cujo exemplo deve ser doravante apontado como exemplo a seguir por todos os dirigentes, militantes e simpatizantes do nosso grande Partido. Assim após o debate e análise dos pontos agendados, o Bureau Politico delibera: 1. Aprovar e enviar o nome do Eng. Carlos Correia como proposta alternativa ao Cargo do Primeiro-ministro em observância ao n°2 do artigo 40 dos estatutos do PAIGC: 2. Reiterar a resolução da 4ª reunião extraordinária do BP no que se refere ao encorajamento ao Conselho Nacional de jurisdição a prosseguir com os trabalhos de averiguação de eventuais violações ao art.º 15° dos Estatutos do Partido e envio pelo Secretariado Nacional de todas as violações aos Estatutos que foram detectados e na sua posse; 3. Aprovar uma Moção de louvor e de solidariedade ao Presidente do PAIGC, camarada Domingos Simões Pereira e uma renovação da confiança dos membros dos órgãos estatutários do PAIGC na sua esclarecida, abnegada e exemplar liderança; 4. Atribuir um Diploma de Mérito aos Camaradas Domingos Simões Pereira, Presidente do PAIGC e Cipriano Cassamá, pela coragem, militantismo e patriotismo com que defenderam o PAIGC e a democracia na Guiné-Bissau. Bissau 16 de Setembro de 2015. O Bureau Politico. Publicada por António Aly Silva no blog Ditadura do Consenso

Burkina: Quando Compaoré capitulou

O Presidente do Burkina Faso (Terra dos Ho­mens Íntegros), Blaise Compaoré, suspeito de em 1987 ter tido responsabilidade na morte do seu antecessor, Thomas Sankara, queria alterar a Constituição, de modo a que no próximo ano se candidatasse a mais um mandato, como o têm feito tantos déspotas por esse mundo fora, nomeadamente no continente africano. Quando o povo daquela região do Sahel se agitou contra tal hipótese e saiu à rua, em “marcha triun­fal”, como se diz no hino nacional, que é da autoria de Sankara, um campeão das esquerdas africanas, Com­paoré pediu que ao menos o deixassem tranquilo até ao fim do seu actual mandato, em 2015. Mas era já tarde. Os presidentes Barack Obama e François Hollande tinham-no advertido recentemente contra as tentativas de revisão constitucional, no sentido de se perpetuar no poder, como um qualquer Mugabe ou outros políticos que têm vindo a cair no descrédito geral. Ele não os ouviu. Os militares agitaram-se e Blaise Compaoré demitiu-se, partindo para um exí­lio dourado em Yamossoukro, capital administrativa da vizinha Costa do Marfim, instalando-se numa residência de luxo colocada à sua disposição pelo Presidente Alassane Ouattara, que tem afinidades étnicas com o Burkina Faso, país outrora conhecido como o Alto Volta. Declarando o poder vago, em vez de o passar a um presidente do Senado ou da Assembleia, como seria a regra constitucional, Compaoré permitiu a tomada do poder pelas Forças Armadas, que assim sequestraram a vontade popular, deturpando o sentido da revolta. A União Africana não gostou do curso dos acon­tecimentos e deu aos militares duas semanas para passarem o testemunho a um Governo provisório constituído por civis, decorrendo nesta altura con­versações para que isso possa vir a acontecer. Oxalá tudo acabe em bem. “O horizonte de felicidade” de que também se fala no hino nacional burkinabe ainda está muito longe, continuando o país a ser um dos mais pobres do mundo. Apesar de se saber que tem reservas de ouro, continua a viver essencialmente da agri­cultura. Um país que formalmente tem como religião principal o islamismo e em segundo lugar um bom contingente de católicos, mas que ao fim e ao cabo ainda se encontra fortemente dominado por práticas animistas, no interior de uma África que por muitos retoques que leve ainda conserva os seus valores culturais próprios, não muito diferentes hoje do que eram há 60 ou 70 anos. Os povos do Burkina Faso, dos Camarões e do Chade, entre outros que têm vindo a ser governados por autocratas, que desconhecem o que seja uma democracia verdadeiramente representativa, querem a liberdade e o progresso que lhes têm sido negados. Depois do egípcio Hosni Mubarak, do tunisino Ben Ali, do líbio Muammar Kadhafi e do burkinabe Blaise Compaoré, também o camaronês Paul Biya e o chadiano Idris Déby Ito terão de partir, porque é essa a vontade dos respectivos povos, porque é esse o sentido da História. A lógica e os bons costumes não são de molde a que uma mesma pessoa governe durante mais de 25 anos, seja como primeiro-ministro seja como Presi­dente da República; ou numa sucessão destas duas funções, como nos casos de Paul Biya e de Robert Gabriel Mugabe. Em Moçambique, por exemplo, Joaquim Alberto Chissano e Armando Emílio Guebuza compreende­ram muito bem que não se poderiam eternizar como presidentes. Na África do Sul, Mandela deu o exemplo supremo, cingindo-se a um só mandato. É agora tempo de a lição ser devidamente aprendida em Angola, na Guiné Equatorial, no Zimbabwe, nos Camarões, no Chade e no Congo. Jorge Heitor, no CORREIO DA MANHÃ, de Maputo – 06.11.2014

Burkina: Dienderé saiu da sombra

Gilbert Diendéré. L'ancien chef d'état-major particulier de l'ex-président Compaoré est la mémoire du régime déchu, l'homme de l'ombre depuis plus d'un quart de siècle. Enquête sur un soldat qui sait tout, mais ne dira rien... Un portrait paru en janvier 2013 dans J.A. n° 2711. On lui donnerait le bon Dieu sans confession à ce grand gaillard. Il doit faire près de 1,95 m et chausser du 50 mais, dans le treillis qu’il semble ne jamais quitter, il ressemble à un enfant qui se cache derrière les jambes de sa mère quand on lui présente un inconnu. S’il tend une main ferme pour saluer, c’est par un « bonjour » presque gêné qu’il répond. Quand il parle, il faut tendre l’oreille. L’habitude des messes basses, peut-être… On a peine à le croire, mais il s’agit bien du général Gilbert Diendéré, le chef d’état-major particulier du président, l’homme le plus puissant du Burkina Faso après Blaise Compaoré lui-même. En août 1983, quand Thomas Sankara a proclamé la révolution, ils étaient trois officiers à ses côtés : Blaise Compaoré, Jean-Baptiste Lingani et Henri Zongo. Diendéré était le cinquième homme. En retrait certes, mais déjà au coeur du système. C’est lui qui dirige depuis trente ans les soldats d’élite du Burkina, le Régiment de la sécurité présidentielle (RSP). Mille hommes que le reste des troupes jalousent tant ils sont choyés ; cinq groupes de commandos formés aux situations les plus extrêmes dans le fameux Centre national d’entraînement commando (CNEC) de Pô. « Le RSP, c’est une armée parallèle, glisse un ministre aux compétences régaliennes. À eux seuls, les hommes de Diendéré pourraient mater le reste des troupes. Ils sont bien formés et très bien armés. »  Sous ses ordres, milles hommes très bien armés et que le reste de la troupe jalouse tant ils sont choyés. À 53 ans, Diendéré est aussi le big boss des renseignements généraux. « L’homme le mieux informé du pays », souffle un journaliste. Peut-être même de la région. En mars, il admettait avoir été mis au courant qu’un putsch était en préparation en Guinée-Bissau (il sera mis à exécution le 12 avril). En avril, au retour d’une énième mission dans le nord du Mali, et avant même que la victoire des milices islamistes sur les combattants du Mouvement national pour la libération de l’Azawad (MNLA) ne se dessine, il nous annonçait la débâcle des rebelles touaregs. Rien ne lui échappe, et ils ne sont pas nombreux à pouvoir en dire autant. Les RG étant éclatés en quatre services distincts (gendarmerie, police, douanes et armée), seule la cellule de coordination qu’il dirige depuis la présidence dispose de l’ensemble des données. Sans oublier les précieuses informations que lui transmettent les Américains et les Français. C’est ici, à Ouaga, que des troupes d’élites françaises se préparent à intervenir à tout moment. Ces commandos s’entraînent d’ailleurs régulièrement avec ceux du RSP. Diendéré lui-même ne dit pas non à un petit exercice de temps en temps. Il y a quelques mois, il a sauté en parachute avec l’ambassadeur français en poste à Ouaga, le général Emmanuel Beth. À cause d’un orage, le saut a mal tourné. Beth a fini à l’hôpital, Diendéré s’en est sorti avec quelques contusions. Réseau d’informateurs Cette étroite collaboration qu’il s’évertue à garder secrète ne l’empêche pas de porter un regard critique sur ses amis occidentaux. Prenez la Libye : quand Kadhafi est tombé, des colonnes de pick-up transportant des Touaregs surarmés ont fui vers le Mali. Et pourtant, les Français et les Américains n’y ont vu que du feu. « Il y a des satellites partout, mais il n’y a plus personne sur le terrain », déplore-t-il. Lui compte encore sur la matière humaine pour s’informer. À Ouahigouya, une ville stratégique située près de la frontière avec le Mali, il a mis en place un réseau efficace d’informateurs volontaires. Et ce bien avant que le MNLA, Al-Qaïda au Maghreb islamique (Aqmi) et le Mouvement pour l’unicité et le jihad en Afrique de l’Ouest (Mujao) ne prennent le Nord. Il sait tout, et c’est bien ce qui le rend « intouchable » – le terme est d’un proche collaborateur de Compaoré – même si (ou peut-être parce que) il n’a aucun poids politique. En 2011, après les violentes mutineries qui ont enflammé la quasi-totalité des casernes du pays, l’ensemble de la chaîne de commandement de l’armée a été renouvelé. À une exception près : le général Diendéré. Le RSP s’était pourtant rebellé lui aussi, à l’intérieur même du palais présidentiel. « N’importe quel autre officier aurait été viré », croit savoir un officier de réserve. Tous ceux qui se sont attaqués à lui se sont brûlé les ailes. Le général Lougué, alors chef d’état-major, a tenté de réduire son poids en 2000 : il est aujourd’hui dans un placard à la primature. Même Hyacinthe Kafando, protégé de Compaoré depuis la rectification (la période qui a suivi la révolution, de 1987 à 1992), a échoué. Accusé d’avoir fomenté un coup d’État en 1996, il a disparu pendant cinq ans pour échapper à une arrestation certaine, avant de réapparaître en 2001. Il avait eu le malheur de comploter contre Diendéré. Mais Diendéré, c’est aussi la mémoire du régime. À chacune des étapes qui ont marqué l’histoire récente du Burkina, « Gilbert » était là. C’est le cas en 1987. Le 15 octobre, Diendéré « supervise » l’arrestation de Sankara, qui tourne au bain de sang. Vingt-cinq ans après, on ne sait pas encore ce qu’il s’est réellement passé, ce jour-là, au siège du Conseil national de la révolution. Diendéré dirigeait déjà les commandos de Pô chargés d’assurer la garde de Sankara. On l’aurait entendu dire à ses hommes qu’il fallait « neutraliser à tout prix le PF », le président du Faso. Était-il présent sur les lieux ? Les rares témoins encore en vie disent l’avoir vu arriver après la tuerie. Boukary Kaboré, un fidèle de Sankara qui dirigeait à l’époque une autre unité d’élite basée à Koudougou, pense qu’il a été « surpris » par la tournure des événements. Pour entendre la version du général, et parce que, depuis, il se tait, il faut relire l’ouvrage de Ludo Martens (Sankara, Compaoré et la révolution burkinabè, EPO, 1989). Diendéré y déclare ceci : « [Nous avons été prévenus] que Compaoré, Lingani et Zongo seraient arrêtés ce soir. […] Notre réaction a été qu’il fallait arrêter Sankara avant que l’irréparable ne se produise. […] Sankara tenait comme toujours son arme, un pistolet automatique, à la main. Il a immédiatement tiré et tué un des nôtres. À ce moment, tous les hommes se sont déchaînés. » Pas très causant Au moment des faits, Diendéré est déjà le fidèle bras droit de Compaoré. En 1981, quand Compaoré a hérité du commandement du CNEC, à Pô, il a fait de ce jeune sous-officier son adjoint. Quand se sont-ils rencontrés ? Mystère. Mais le lien entre les deux hommes, c’est peut-être le commandant Lingani, le n° 3 sous la révolution, qui l’a fait. Lingani était le parrain de Diendéré au Prytanée militaire de Kadiogo (PMK). Il l’appréciait. À l’époque déjà, Diendéré n’est pas très causant. « Il souriait, mais ne disait pas un mot, se rappelle Philippe Ouédraogo, ministre dans le premier gouvernement de la révolution. C’était impossible de deviner ce qu’il pensait. » Aujourd’hui, un de ses proches collaborateurs dit de lui qu’il est « extrêmement discret et très discipliné » et qu’on « ne peut jamais savoir quelle est sa position ». Originaire de la région de Yako, dans la province du Passoré, comme Sankara, le jeune Gilbert s’est installé à Ouagadougou avec sa famille dans les années 1970. Ils sont pauvres. Son père, militaire mossi, ne dépassera jamais le grade de caporal. Gilbert, lui, aime le foot et les filles. Comme beaucoup de fils de militaires, il intègre le Prytanée. On le retrouve en 1981 sous les ordres de Compaoré. Le 4 août 1983, il joue un rôle majeur dans la prise du pouvoir par les révolutionnaires en menant ses troupes jusqu’à Ouagadougou. C’est lui qui annonce à la radio le coup d’État. Il est 22 heures. « Peuple de Haute-Volta, le capitaine Thomas Sankara vous parle… » Il est de tous les coups « et tire à chaque fois son épingle du jeu », note Philippe Ouédraogo. Est-il « l’homme des basses besognes », comme ses détracteurs aiment à le qualifier ? « Il est très fin, estime un ami d’enfance, un opposant à Blaise Compaoré. Jamais il ne se promènerait un colt à la main dans la rue. Il a peut-être échafaudé des plans, mais je ne crois pas qu’il les ait exécutés lui-même. » Le 18 septembre 1989, il déjoue une tentative de coup d’État qui – selon la version officielle – aurait été fomentée par Lingani et Zongo, ses deux vieux compagnons d’armes. Lingani lui aurait fait part de leur plan et Diendéré en aurait informé Compaoré avant de procéder aux arrestations des présumés putschistes. Ils seront passés par les armes dans la nuit. Quelques jours plus tard, Diendéré est nommé secrétaire général du comité exécutif du Front populaire – autrement dit numéro deux du régime. Le voilà chargé de la défense et de la sécurité. Il n’a que 30 ans. Vingt ans plus tard, Diendéré est resté fidèle à Compaoré. Il a été son homme de confiance sur bien des dossiers. Quand le Libérien Charles Taylor reprenait des forces à Ouaga avant de repartir en guerre, c’est lui qui s’en occupait. Idem pour l’Ivoirien Guillaume Soro au début des années 2000, avant sa fulgurante ascension. Même chose pour le Guinéen Moussa Dadis Camara depuis deux ans. C’est lui aussi qui, selon des témoins cités dans un rapport de l’ONU, a géré le transit à Ouaga d’armes ukrainiennes destinées à la Sierra Leone à la fin des années 1990. Lui qui, selon les principaux intéressés, s’occupait d’envoyer au Liberia en guerre des mercenaires burkinabè. Lui qui s’est rendu au Tchad, le 1er décembre 1990, le jour même où Hissène Habré fuyait N’Djamena. Lui, enfin, qui fut au coeur de l’affaire David Ouédraogo, ce chauffeur accusé par la femme de François Compaoré, le frère et conseiller de « Blaise », de leur avoir dérobé de l’argent. Ce sont les hommes de Diendéré qui ont arrêté David Ouédraogo et ont tenté de lui extorquer des aveux, avant qu’il ne soit donné pour mort en janvier 1998. Un an plus tard, le journaliste Norbert Zongo, qui a révélé l’affaire, mourra dans l’incendie criminel de sa voiture.  Le pouvoir ne l’intéresse pas, et c’est là sans doute la clé de sa longévité. Sale coup Aujourd’hui, Diendéré suit de près le dossier malien. Il s’est transformé en libérateur d’otages (lire encadré), la nouvelle spécialité du Burkina. Diendéré, c’est un homme de l’ombre, un vrai. « Le pouvoir ne l’intéresse pas », assure un proche. Il y a bien eu des bruits le concernant. Dans les années 1990, certains l’ont soupçonné de fomenter un sale coup. Sa femme, Fatou, l’y aurait poussé. « Fatou », députée et membre du bureau exécutif du Congrès pour la démocratie et le progrès (CDP, au pouvoir), c’est l’exact contraire de Diendéré. Elle pétille, parle fort, aime la politique et ne cache pas ses ambitions. « Si Blaise est là, pourquoi pas mon mari ? » aurait-elle lâché, un jour, en société. Si elle ne refuse pas la lumière, lui la fuit comme la peste. Hormis quelques apparitions dans la presse et de rares décorations, il est invisible. « On ne le voit pas en ville », indique un journaliste. Et lorsqu’on lui parle de faire son portrait, il se braque. « Je ne veux pas. » Pourquoi réveiller les vieux démons ? Jeune Afrique