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'Good old days' under Bokassa?
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Jan 04, 2009 05:27am |
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| Category | General |
| Media | TV News - British Broadcasting Corporation BBC News |
| News Date | Friday, January 2, 2009 11:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | For more than three decades his name has been synonymous with the worst excesses of the sort of dictators who have bedevilled post-colonial Africa.
History largely remembers Jean Bedel Bokassa - or Emperor Bokassa I as he crowned himself in 1977 - as one of the continent's most colourful yet bloodthirsty monsters.
He was a demagogue as ruthless as Mobutu and more flamboyant than Amin.
When Bokassa was overthrown in 1979, jubilant crowds vented their hatred on a giant statue of the tyrant who for almost 14 years ran the Central African Republic (or the Central African Empire as Bokassa had renamed it) like a modern-day Nero. |
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