Ron,

I told you that I will come crossing on you since you never forwarded anything here in support of Gbagbo.But I need to make this clear from the start, I am not  supporting  any of them,that is Alassana or Gbagbo, both these two gentle men are a disgrace to the continent and especially your Alssana, who was in the service of international capital destroying his own people and country by imposing IMF conditionality (ERP) that were never in the interest of the Ivorian people and nation, without doubt one of the main courses of this more than a decade long crisis.

Almost 10 years ago,that was December 2002,I wrote an article on the Ivorian crisis and I concluded there inn that ;

".....The question that should now be asked is how Gbagbo and his government will handle the internal crisis after the end of the conflict. If he chooses to confront the crisis on ethnic and regional lines, instead of confronting the forces that are against the interests of the Ivorian people, he is bound to fail sooner than later. "     (can let U know where to see the whole article if you want or just go to www.newsandletters.org and search for IV)

Gbagbo has certainly been playing the "regional" card and never put his country first as a way forward in resolving the crisis that for many years held this wonderful country in ransom. This is what I called out right opportunism.

I am very convinced that Ivorian  dont have a short memory and that is why I am perhaps among those who believed that Ivorian majority voters will never vote for Allasana.The whole international pressure is the work of France and unless one put this into perspective it will be very difficult to understand the whole crisis. It is  not one that started yesterday or just after the elections.

If you look rightly, the majority of the election commission is composed of Alassana`s supporters and the constitutional committee that of Gbagbo, is it not natural that they are in conflict ?, none of them are independent. And in a divided country, as in IV, one part controlled by the government forces and the other part by rebel forces, it will be hard to convince someone like me that elections under such conditions will be free and fair.

Coming from the Gambia,as we are expecting that our soon to come elections will not be free and fair, the Ivorian crisis will be a lesson to learn from.

I am still working on my article and I will surely let know when am through with it.

For Freedom

Saiks

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