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On the 5th of February, while asking an authorization to the UN, the French president claimed: “France will fulfill its duty in Chad, if it has to”. The day before, the UN Security Council has already “firmly condemned the attacks against the Chadian government” and has appealed “the memberstates to support to the Chadian government”. On the same day, the French imperialism directed a warning to the rebel Chadian troops who were threatening N’Djamena. Sarkozy asked “the French air force to fly over the Chad side of the Soudan border, in order to make sure that there is no foreign incursion”. Beforehand, he had reinforced the French detachment there on the pretext of humanitarian reasons.
According
to General Mahamat Nouri, the main leader of the Chadian rebellion, the French air force “have bombed”
the rebels' positions “since yesterday morning until one o'clock this morning”
in order to protect president Idriss Deby Itno's regime. Nouri blames “France” for a “direct
intervention” in the capital. The
French army admits to have given espionage and some logistic
aid in the last few days. In April 2006, the French army had supplied the
Chadian leadership with oil, intelligence, arms and most of all had intimidated the rebel soldiers
with its planes. In February 2006, during a takeover attempt, Idriss Déby was protected by the soldiers of the 1st RPIM (paratroop).
In 1990, under the Mitterrand-Rocard government, the French secret service had already helped Déby through arms.
In order to maintain its economic, diplomatic and military positions, the 5th Republic owns 10 000 bases in Chad, but also in Djibouti, Senegal, Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast... Through this device, it could intervene in several countries in Africa under De Gaulle, Giscard, Mitterrand, Chirac, often in order to put up or to maintain dictators. The French army educated and protected the architects of the Tutsis' genocide in Rwanda in 1994. The French army destroyed the Ivory Coast air force in 2004. It militarily helped the Central African president Bozizé. Sarkozy is fully continuing the French imperialist tradition. Chad hosts more than 1 000 mercenaries of French imperialism, within “the Operation Sparrowhawk” and France also supplies a Military Training Assistance Detachment (Dami). Actually the Dami, which consists of special armed forces -mostly the 1st and the 8th RPIM-, is used as an intelligence and power protection unit, and it is not known as a defender of human rights.
Besides its strategic position, Chad became an oil-producing country, whose resources are shared by American, English and French oil companies. On the 28th
of January, the Foreign Secretaries of the European Union memberstates decided to send 3 700 soldiers to Chad and to the
Central African Republic
(“EU Military Operation in Eastern Chad and
North Eastern Central African Republic”), whereas 20 000 soldiers are planned there for the UN and the
African Union (“Unamid”), under the pretext
of helping Darfour people in Sudan.
Therefore Africa is still
underdeveloped despite its natural and
human ressources. Corrupt political leaders are still under economic, political and military
pressure from imperialisms,
mainly France and the US. Plunders and rivalries between
the capitalist powers accelerate the repression of the workers' movement,
the oppression of women, political unstability, militarism, ethnical
confrontations, people's displacement,
genocides... Charity, NGO and “humanitarian interference” are just the corollary of colonialism, of European and American rule.
In France,
the working class and youth, including
many African-born workers and students,
must smash the plundering
by big French capitalist firms, must prevent the interference of the secret service and army who protect
their interests. The workers' organisations,
parties and unions, must implement
a united front in order to prevent any intervention of their imperialism in Chad: street demonstrations,
blockings of transport and
of communication.
This implies no support to the armed opposition, whose social and political basis is similar to the
incumbent regime, and who would
become, in case of victory,
a go-between for foreign rule. The struggle of the French working class and youth against
imperialist interference will, on the contrary,
contribute to prepare the overthrow of the representatives of the local exploiting classes by the proletarians and by the poor
peasants of Africa, in order to set up workers' and peasant governments,
in expropriating the capitalist groups, in building the
socialist United States of Africa.
In order to lead an efficient joint fight against the
imperialist powers like France and against their local go-between like Déby, a fraternal collaboration , a revolutionary workers' international is necessary.
No to any French armed intervention in Chad, with or without
UN approval! Denunciation
of all official and secrete
treaties! Retreat of French
troops from Chad, from Ivory
Coast, from Afghanistan...!
Closure of all French military
bases! Right of entry and
of residence for all African
students and workers!
Paris, 5th
of February 2008