Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Abayomi Azikiwe, PANW Editor, Featured on RT Satellite Television World News, Discussing the French War In Mali

For Immediate Release

Media Advisory
April 10, 2013

Abayomi Azikiwe, PANW Editor, Featured on RT Satellite Television World News, Discussing the Regional Implications of the Imperialist War Against Mali

To watch this interview with Abayomi Azikiwe over RT Satellite Television World News just click on the following website : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/66885729/abayomi.asf

France announced on April 9 that it would begin a partial withdrawal of troops from Mali after a three month occupation ostensibly designed to root out Islamist rebels in the north of the West African state.

Yet at the same time there are other reports indicating that a major offensive has been launched around Gao to shut down supply routes and confiscate weapons caches in the area.

Paris has also admitted that a long term force of at least 1,000 troops will remain in their former colony even after December 2013.

These claims contradict the initial statements by the Hollande administration that the operation in Mali would be only a few weeks in duration.

The Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern over the possible intervention of targeted Islamic groups in the refugee camps for the Saharawi people in the Western Sahara. The Saharawi are being occupied by the western-backed regime in Morocco which has refused to allow the people to hold a national referendum on independence.

France's invasion and occupation of Mali is being supported by the United States, Germany, Britain and other NATO states. They are supposedly training and preparing a regional military force from several African states to take the place of France in the Malian war.

Chad has been the most active in this regional force outside the involvement of the army in Mali. Numerous Chadian troops have been killed in operations in the northern Ifoghas Mountains on the border with Algeria.

The Malian army was trained and armed by the Pentagon's U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). The officer which overthrew the elected government in Bamako last March 2012 was trained in military academies in the U.S.

Consequently, the U.S. is largely responsible for the destabilization of Mali. At present Washington has established a drone station in neighboring Niger where some 100 Pentagon troops are present.

This interview with RT notes that France and the Western powers are only involved in Mali and other regional states to consolidate dominance over the mineral resources which consist of oil, uranium and diamonds as well as attempts to block greater cooperation between Africa and the People's Republic of China.

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