Togo

[CheJoni]

Know someone, something about the situation in Togo?
I interest in this topic, because my parents are members of the "Togo Freunde Hanover". This organsitation help people in Togo. And know the danger of a civil war grows up.
Thank you for your help
greez CheJoni

[comrade_mufasa]

If your parents are members of that organisation then shouldnt they have some info on the sitution in Togo.

[CheJoni]

yeah, they have some friends their, but it's difficult to get information about the situation and it is dangerous for these people to talk about that. Maybe the police listen in to the phones. I want to know what the opposition are doing. I have heard that they want to free Togo with force of arms. Like a revoltution, you know?

[Colombia]

From what I hear the opposition is pretty much beat down and has no chance of success.

[viva le revolution]

Where is Togo by the way?

[viva le revolution]

Where is Togo by the way? Some info would be appreciated.

[Edelweiss]

CheJoni, Here is an article in German about the recent situation in Togo with some backgound information, it's from the leftist daily newspaper "Junge Welt": http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/04-30/009.php

[comrade_mufasa]

Originally posted by viva le [email protected] 10 2005, 11:45 AM
Where is Togo by the way?
Togo (http://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/africa/tg.htm). Try some web searching next time.

[Guerrilla22]

Togo is western, sub sahara africa. south of equitorial Guinea I believe.

[CheJoni]

Thank you Malte.
Yes Togo is western africa. Togo was a colonie of germany and after the world war I believe, they colonie was french.
My parents have two internet pages about news from the opposition and in the other hand from the goverment. I ask them.

[Abstrakt]

Originally posted by comrade_mufasa+May 10 2005, 05:26 PM--> (comrade_mufasa @ May 10 2005, 05:26 PM)
viva le [email protected] 10 2005, 11:45 AM
Where is Togo by the way?
Togo (http://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/africa/tg.htm). Try some web searching next time. [/b]
Why would he do that, when that's what these boards are made for?

But anyways, thanks for the location.

[viva le revolution]

Thanks for the info. Appreciate it.

[Sabocat]

Here's a pretty descriptive article that was posted on the WSWS.


Eruption of violence accompanies sham election in Togo
By Brian Smith
11 May 2005



Following the death of Togo’s dictator Gnassingbé Eyadema in early February, the United States and the European Union attempted to hold the country up as a test case of a new democratic world order in which the West steps back and allows Africans (and others) to police themselves.

Western governments and the media have portrayed ECOWAS (the Economic Community of West African States), and to a lesser extent the African Union (AU), as having independently pressured Togo onto a democratic path, following an attempted coup by the late Eyadema’s son, Faure Gnassingbé.

This democratic façade masks massive pressure exerted by the West on Togo and on all African governments to fall into line or face the consequences. The actions of the Bush administration in particular are intended to reinforce the myth that, following the 9/11 attacks on the US, Washington is promoting democracy around the world as part of a “war on tyranny.”

Read the rest (http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/togo-m11.shtml)