Burkina Faso : The inglorious end of General Diendr

09/24/2015 : He looks a little lost in his too wide mesh for his tall figure of almost 2 meters.
Sitting alongside the US ambassador, General Gilbert Diendr attempts to keep his officer's
dignity in the VIP lounge of the banquet hall Ouaga 2000.
The building was opened June 8, 1998 for a United Nations summit of African Unity. That same
day, the Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha made life, officially of a heart attack, according to other
versions of an aphrodisiac overdose with two prostitutes. These two "chief executive" have the
common practice of coup. In a year of repentance, General Burkinabe acknowledged that his
"biggest mistake was to have made this putsch". "Today, when we talk about democracy, we can not
afford to do actions like this. "
Wednesday, September 23, the head of the ephemeral "National Council for Democracy", which
will have lived a week, was kept out of the ceremony of "restoration transitional authorities" of
Burkina Faso. The honors were then to Michel Kafando, the interim president, who lashed out at
"the fury of the forces of evil." The Heads of State of Benin, Niger, Ghana and the Vice President of
Nigeria had the opportunity for movement. No Senegalese President Macky Sall, whose mediation
has failed completely after he proposed to access all of the claims of the military junta.

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Intimate Enemies General Diendr, Lieutenant Colonel and Prime Minister Isaac Zida, native, like
him, from the city of Yako and coming, too, the ranks of the Presidential Security Regiment (RSP),
just released and reinstated in his post Premier has also received a round of applause. General
Diendr, then Chief of Staff of particular Blaise Compaor, had placed the state orders after the
fall of Burkinabe President, October 31, 2014, but the "puppet" quickly escaped its handler the
shade.

The "dumbest coup of the world"

Why this mysterious man and courteous, quietly involved in supporting rebellions in Liberia, Sierra
Leone and Ivory Coast, he suddenly chose light to perpetrate the "dumbest coup of the world" , as
nicknamed the Burkinab street? To contain the discontent of NCOs and base who fear losing their
privileges RSP face the threats of dissolution? To escape the justice which could cover it, especially
because of his involvement in the assassination of Captain Thomas Sankara? To allow his wife,
Fatou, and his political friends of the former ruling party, the Congress for Democracy and Progress
(CDP), to compete in the elections which they were excluded by the Constitutional Council? Or
even to prevent defectors hated, and Roch Marc Christian Kabor his right arm Salif Diallo, access
controls the country?
All these reasons will surely aggregate but very close to a head of state from the region says that
"his plan was to emulate the Sissi marshal. To overthrow the institutions that have made many
mistakes, repress protest and ultimately to be elected head of state to perpetuate the CDP system.
But Burkina is not Egypt and the benevolent gaze of the Ivory Coast is not worth the support of
Saudi Arabia. "
General Diendr did not measure democracy especially thirst of his country and of the street
mobilization capacity that pushed units led by young officers in the province of garrisons head start
on their troops while Ouagadougou officers of the various staffs waiting to see which way the wind
changed. The balance of power has been reversed and the satisfaction of both sides, urban combat,
potentially pests have been avoided. "I just talked to a component of the RSP whose twin brother
was on the other side," says an officer to support his argument that none of the two forces was ready
"to burn the country".
However, in their putschist adventure Diendr Gilbert and his most likely have lost all of their
credits. It would have been an ideal candidate to lead a force Sahelian fight against jihadist
terrorism, surely supported by France, where he has many contacts in the intelligence services, but
this is now described as "terrorist" by the African Union.
The issue of the reinstatement of candidates of his political family, who retain many potential voters
for the elections initially planned on October 11, now seems outdated. The disarmament and
dissolution of the RSP are on track. His soldiers and their families will benefit from the protection
of "their brothers in arms" to escape the vengeance of a population to assimilate all the ills of

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Burkina and Africa (Ebola, Boko Haram, Daech ...) . Justice, he is willing to face assuming "full
[his] responsibility" and "without denying that there have been deaths" during the coup (ten) could
catch up. In his honor, General Gilbert Diendr not bolted, but the end of his career is inglorious.

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