Here with a photo gallery for your viewing.
Thanks to the French Foreign Legionnaire - - Zdenek Busek from his web site: "Kepi Blanc - - French Foreign Legion".
A photo gallery entitled: "Ivory Coast - Tears Of The Sun - Ethnic Cleansing"
WARNING - - SOME OF THESE PHOTOS ARE EXTREMELY GRUESOME. IF YOU ARE SQUEAMISH IN THE SLIGHTEST MANNER - - HIT ESCAPE NOW!!
Photographs actually taken [??] by Zdenek, illustrating with gruesome detail the type of "warfare" endemic to west Africa. Tribal "warfare" that has become so common throughout almost all of central Africa. Slaughter and mayhem without any possible military purpose, done, basically, for no more plausible reason than just to perpetrate murder/rape/arson/pillage, military necessity and objective NOT even being a consideration.
In the words of Zdenek himself:
"A scene not uncommon in many of the rebel occupied areas of the Ivory Coast, particularly in the regions close to the Liberian border. The village was found by French troops pillaged and razed to the ground . . . the motives for massacres like these not being religion, race or politics, but simple greed and trigger-happy cold-bloodedness."
The Ivory Coast at one time was considered TO BE THE MODEL FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AFRICA! A black African nation relatively prosperous and stable. Wealthy from plantations growing a variety of cash crops, primarily cocoa! Technologically advanced through the efforts of a large number of French expatriates!!
This is all now a thing of the past. "Civil war", if it can be called that, has left the economy in tatters and the populace destitute.
Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Sudan [Dar Fur], etc. These nations all seem to share an unpleasant and grim fate! Murderous militias run amok, laying waste - - again - - quite often - - but for the reason of - - "simple greed and trigger-happy cold-bloodedness."!!
Very grim indeed!!
coolbert.
Most people aren't willing to see the FFL in Africa as peace keepers. The voice you hear frequently is the liberal calling the Foreign Legion mercenaries. What most people don't realize, unless they have been there is the lawlessness and action based on emotion vs rational thought that takes place in 3rd world countries. I am all for the continued presence of the French Foreign Legion in Africa as well as the expanding presence of US Forces.
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