To understand the peculiarities of the dictatorship of Gabon in violation of human rights, nothing more eloquent than the story of our compatriot us narrated above, the ordeal that made him suffer the defense forces of Ali Bongo, for the simple reason that this fellow had ventured into the streets to protest peacefully, Bitam, when his disapproval at the presence of an impostor and usurper at the head of the country.
1. It should be said that the regime of Ali Bongo is a quasi-military power.
In the historical and political context of the moment and given the numerous interventions of the defense forces against civilians since August 2009, may have said that abuse that come to know our fellow Bitam, nothing of a isolated experiment but represent a normative way and even banal, Ali Bongo Controller populations, and sit his authority. But the series of military interventions that we observe in Gabon, following any claim or social policy, can only be explained by a reluctance on edge pressures on the regime, and a fear that the dispute does not win the field and to emulate within the population. For emerging markets, we must kill the spirit of protest in the bud. This succession of authoritarian experiences, almost constantly since the arrival of Ali Bongo in power is nothing other than "praetorianism" that is to say a dictatorship based on the army. Ali Bongo, you must use the army as an instrument certainly politics. That is to say to push recalcitrant to his power, either in silence or to political parties' authorized and friendly. " So, the Gabonese military are tacitly committed to a pendulum between brutal authoritarianism as described in the video of our countryman, and usability infantilizing within the same political regime in power for 43 years. In this scheme, military interventions are an integral part of political system.
2. Militarism leads to excessive social dynamics
very dangerous in a country, we must never lose sight of the state-society relationship. When there is bottom-up process of militarization of society, and politicization of the armed forces is inevitable course towards models of sociability and design of power based on force alone. That is to say that we are moving, if we're not there already, to a political culture and ideology that normalizes and trivializes the use of violence as legitimate and effective form for the resolution of political conflicts and social discomfort. We saw in Gabon, establishing a series of laws aimed at so-called "discipline" of society, but which are only violations of individual freedoms. Thus, laws were passed prohibiting vestimenta in some jurisdictions, laws forbidding young people to be OUTSIDE of their homes after a certain hour, yet we find that the robberies and killings continue to be endemic. So these attempts to "civilize" the young male population are stupid and doomed to failure. We also see some time, decrees or orders for the dissolution of political parties or associations, not the taste of power. We finally see how power interprets any public event, a crime punishable by arrest, torture, cancellation of public service, loss of parliamentary immunity or pension of former prime minister. The danger, dear readers, is that gradually settles over the military intervention, a climate of high social tolerance for the treatment of the "other" using repressive methods. From that moment, torture became a systematic method, applied to both political prisoners and to those of common law. But what Ali Bongo forgets is that the repressive practice may turn against him. That so brutal it will be against Gabon, the Gabonese and where appropriate will be merciless against him if they were given the opportunity to brutalize. Bongo longer be torturers, the more he'll have the time comes, débongoïser Gabonese society by force and brutality.
In the current context of Gabon, we can say that the experience is slightly Gabonese Democratic Republican and very minimal pluralism. So there is destruction of the credibility of the restoration Democratic Gabon, benefit from the introduction of excessive militarism. In this context of erosion of democratic legitimacy, the political system loses its effectiveness in resolving social conflicts, which then moving to other arenas. So we live in "probation" in Gabon, and this situation has never given good results in very regularly and tragedies.
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