April 2011 - Centre for Civil Society - University of KwaZulu-Natal

[2] San Finna, n° 605 du 28 February - 5 March 2011, Violent
demonstrations in Koudougou. Police misconduct, bad communication,
unfounded accusations et several dead!. A reminder that Justin Zongo was
taken to the police station on December 2011, the day Mohamed Bouazizi
set himself on fire.
[3] After the 8 March demonstration was cancelled, it seems that there
was more use of Facebook, it now helps in access to information and
analyses of events and is really useful, also for the diaspora and foreigners
who wish to understand what is happening.
[4] However, and this seems new, though we cannot confirm it, messaging
services were cut off on the eve of the march called by ANEB on 11 March.
L’Observateur Paalga, n°7838, March 14 mars 2011.
[5] Le Pays, n°4812, February 25 - 27 2011, Demonstrations spread to
Ouahigouya.
[6] L’Observateur Paalga, n°7831, March 2, 2011, School kids demonstrate
in Leo.
[7] L’Observateur Paalga, n°7836, March 10, 2011, Students demonstrate
in Ouahigouya. Tensions at boiling point.
[8] L’Observateur Paalga referred to 9 dead on March 16 (n°7840, March
16, 2011, Situation nationale. Manifestation violente d’une crise de
confiance).
[9] Letter from Aneb Koudougou to the Governor, 28 February 2011.
[10] He was a key political figure and was present from the start of the
’Revolution’ alongside Blaise Compaoré et Thomas Sankara. After the coup
on 15 October 1987, he backed the new head of state. He was killed in a
terrorist attack in a high security zone in the city centre on 9 December
1991.
[11] Wrongly accused of stealing a large amount of money, he was taken in
by the presidential guard and died in the presidential infirmary. The chief
doctor noted in the death certificate: ‘died of his illness on January 18,
1998 at 6.50’.
[12] His remarks were reported thus in San Finna, n° 605, 28 February – 5
March 2011, see note [2].
[13] Koudougou is known as a rebel town. It appears that a special police
contingent (CRS) was deployed there last December to subdue the
population. Cf. Eveil éducation, n° 173, March 7, 2011, Events in
Koudougou.
[14] The article which restricts the presidential mandate to two
consecutive terms was first modified on 27 January 1997, and was brought
back after the protests in the Norbert Zongo affair. The law isn’t
retroactive, and Blaise Compaore has since stood twice for re-election. He
won another mandate last November with 80 per cent of the vote, though
only 1.5 million people actually voted, but this is supposed to be his last.
[15] The tax on the owners of two and four wheelers is supposed to fund
local development.
[16] L’Observateur Paalga, 24 February 1997, University crisis: latest
developments
Goldstone's Shameful U-Turn
Ilan Pappe 6 April 2011
"If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone report would have
been a different document." Thus opens Judge Richard Goldstone's muchdiscussed
op-ed in The Washington Post. I have a strong feeling that the
editor might have tampered with the text and that the original sentence
ought to have read something like: "If I had known then that the report
would turn me into a self-hating Jew in the eyes of my beloved Israel and