Zuleikha Al-Shayeb: Woman the French dropped from helicopter to her death, By Owei Lakemfa
The article discusses France's colonial history and its brutal treatment of various nations. It highlights the hypocrisy of France's revolutionary ideals in contrast to its colonial actions. The author emphasizes the resistance faced by France from colonized peoples, particularly in Algeria and Vietnam.
- ▪France's colonial history is marked by extreme violence and oppression against colonized nations.
- ▪The Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 resulted in a significant defeat for French forces, with over 16,000 soldiers not returning home.
- ▪In Algeria, France's brutal tactics led to the deaths of approximately two million people during its attempts to maintain control.
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Add us on Google The French, following its revolution in 1790, gave humanity the enduring slogan “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.” They are ideals worth dying for; but the same French turned out to be some of the most bestial colonialists for whom human life meant nothing. The French colonialists were so vicious that famous African psychiatrist Franz Fanon, who studied the psyche of the French, in his 1961 book The Wretched of the Earth advised his fellow Africans: “Let us waste no time in sterile litanies and nauseating mimicry. Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their own streets, in all the corners of the globe.
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