I don’t recall the Cote d’Ivoire attacking France nor was it a direct threat to France, yet 4000 French troops are occupying the country. What is the specific justification? To protect civilian life?
Well you don’t recall because you don’t know anything about what happened in Cote d’Ivoire during the last 2 years. :rolleyes:
France and cote d’Ivoire had defence agreements. 2 years ago, the cote d’Ivoire government call the French for help because rebel troops were taking the major cities in the north of the country and the regular IC army was unable to stop them as they were progressing to the south.
France sent 2000 soldiers to stop the rebels before they took Abidjan and the control of the country.
French troops pushed the rebell back to the north and thus, saved Mr president Gbagbo ass and prevented a blood bath in the entire country :rolleyes:
Then Gbagbo and rebel leaders accepted to talk to save the peace and eventually a common peace agreement was signed in Paris : “the marcoussi agreements” in which, French soldiers mission was to prevent the 2 sides from fighting again.
Everybody was happy and some rebels were accepted in the govermnent. But in fact, president Gbagbo was just trying to save time in order to buy new heavy weapons (su-25, mi-24…). Former rebels finally had to (were forced to) quit the government and Gbagbo began a strike back military campain with his new toys toward the north, breaking the ceasefire IMPOSED by the UN security council.
During these illegal attacks (breaking of an UN resolution) on the former rebel positions, 2 Gbagbo su-25 strike a french peace-keepers base killing 9 of them (+ 32 wounded)
Therefore, France destroyed these 2 planes + the Mi-24/8 that were breaking the ceasefire for 3 days.
Scared by the very quick french reaction (less than 1 hour) Gbagbo government Brodcast anti-french propaganda on the nationnal TV and radio, asking people to hunt french civilian and to attack french soldiers… (What a brave and good idea 🙁 )
After 2 days of anti-french riots held by the french troops (but with many french house/shops looted), Gbagbo finally appeared on television asking the rioters to calm down and back home…while, at the same time, the national radio was brodcasting anti-french messages :rolleyes:
BTW, now, French troops have 2 missions :
1- protect the 15 000 french and european civilians living in the country and possibly evacuate them if necessary.
2- Enforce the actions of UN troops in the country (ie ceasefire)
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