From Thursday to Saturday, numerous people in the scrap went outside against the Faure Gnassingbé autocrat. On the one hand, evil young people and burning checkpoints can be seen in photographs and videos, on the other hand, gender captures and bandits who pull people out of the house on residential streets or beat them on the street.
That is the last country in West Africa, in which the family dictatorship of the 1960s is still holding today. In 1967, the young Gnassingbé Eyadema officer put himself in power and built a terrorist regime. Even then, his victims regularly appeared like corpses in the lagoon Lome.
After his death in 2005, his son Foret Gnassingbe became president. According to the government and from 400 to 500 deaths, in his first, very controversial choice there were 154 deaths.
Controversial constitutional changes
In April 2024, the parliament of the one unanimously decided to change the controversial constitutional change in order to transfer the highest power in the state of the president of the new prime minister. Therefore, the president is elected by parliament, no longer a people; The leader of the largest parliamentary group automatically becomes the prime minister.
In parliament, the trade union of the ruling party of Gnassingbe (Union for the Republic) takes almost all places. Based on this, Gnassingbé became the new prime minister of that on May 3 and, thus, remains the most influential person in the state for an unlimited time, without even encountering direct elections; He also remains armed for the Armed Forces. At the same time, the parliamentarians elected the new president, the only ceremonial cabinet, an 86-year-old former opposition policy and political prisoner Jean-Luke Savi de Tove.
Since then, the allies of the opposition Togos have mobilizing ANC (National Alliance for Changes) and FDR (democratic forces for the republic). The mass demonstration on May 4, a day after the Gnassingbés elections, was approved. The new demonstrations on June 6, the birthday of Gnassingbe, were expelled or strangled in the bud. The opposition to new protests is then called on June 26.
Rappier landed in psychiatry
The case of the rapper Aamron shows how the state of the state continues. The young musician, who is actually called Essowe Tilal, was pulled out of his house on May 26 after a call for protests on June 6. He remained missing until he apologized to the eve of June 6 in a strange video message near Gnassingbe and said that he was in psychiatric treatment.
The clinic outside the scrap in which he was locked, fired Jamron on June 21. Last week, he published a depressing message in which he stated that he intentionally decided to sacrifice himself as a “martyr”, so future generations, my children, our children, who could have courage, should rise and trust in life, where our predecessors leaned and rose.
The confrontation between state power and the opposition should continue. The opposition wants to take part in the planned regional elections on July 17.
