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Blog régional de l'association Survie (Aude, Gard, Hérault,Lozère,Pyrénées-orientales)

lundi 5 septembre 2016

Gabon: France calls for calm after 50 years of support to the Bongo regime

Press release by Survie, 1/9/2016
Voting for the presidential election in Gabon took place on Saturday 27th August. While Ali Bongo seems to have lost the election, according to results produced by the opposition at the exit polls, he decided, as in 2009, to impose himself by force. Since Wednesday evening, various events were violently suppressed by military and police forces. If the death toll is impossible to determine at this time because of movement restrictions coupled with Internet blackouts, it turns out that Ali Bongo doesn't just use to tear gas but orders to use live ammunition as well as heavy weaponry, shooting from helicopters.
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