Recently, the revolts in series, parts of the Maghreb Arab-Berber, and having already forced the resignation of President Ben Ali of Tunisia and so far very solid Mubarak of Egypt, demonstrate an important thing: that these police-state, authoritarian and dictatorial, which stifle and suffocate their people in a "pressure cooker" which allows only a handful of privileged people to grab and plunder the wealth of the country s 'écroulent miserably when people decide to take in hand, and their ultimate leaders invariably end the indifference and abandonment of their "friends" yesterday. Proof, these dictators often do not survive long in the forfeiture.
1. Dictators are stubborn and refuse to learn from previous history of dictatorships
While the great powers which often support these dictatorships, like everyone else, can easily point to a picture divided, with one side streets oppressed and the other will continue to deal with an autocratic ally whose people demand the start. While it is agreed that in a democracy, power must answer the call of the people, within the shortest possible. However dictators, even when the determination of peoples is irreducible, often refuse to believe that the hours of their political system are counted. They refused until the last minute transfer of power under the pressure of the street. We're still seeing in Bahrain and Libya, and certainly we will see in Gabon, where our president is heir to see already with a master of at least 25 years. We saw the most grotesque of this stubbornness to stay in power, in the ultimate downfall of the "African King" Joseph Desire Mobutu, who was one of the oldest, strongest and most tenacious dictators from the Cold War and decolonization. Yet because of his refusal to learn to leave things in time, it will end up in the almost universal indifference. If Mobutu is a lesson which must draw all dictators still in service. Abandoned by all, Mobutu died in the most absurd indifference, ignored because of all his peers who ate him yet in hand for decades. Sad end for a man considered one of the richest in the world. Mobutu has faded in the greatest unselfishness of the people of his country and yet once nick many friends around the world. Preceded his downfall a pitiful degradation of his health before his death, are really a sign and an omen for leaders like Ali Bongo, for they remember the glory, power, arrogance should never be an excuse to despise the aspirations of peoples. To recap, Mobutu came to power following a military coup. Come to Bongo in Gabon, he imposed his people a "peace" based on fear, violence and repression. As Bongo in Gabon, he became one of the most feared men and richest in the world. As Bongo in Gabon, he is the ally of the West, he built the pyramid of power and autocratic predator, cemented by money. As Bongo in Gabon, he distributes favors and disgraces, and reigned over the ruins of a country ravaged by corruption.
2. Every dictator feels providential man
As the facts on the ground are often indefensible and tragic for the people, the dictator is using systematic production of information "in the grain." Thus it is requested by the ministers of information to all employees of television and state radio, to come to support the dictator-president. While it was clearly rejected by the people, the state press, in a propaganda campaign in favor of the plan, presented the dictator as the providential man, almost sent by God to save the country, one that guaranteed social peace deal "to vendors of illusions" (a term very fashionable Gabon). But often busy torturing their people, these dictatorships do not even see or erosion, or the fragility of their power. So when there is popular revolt, they are surprised by the speed of jilting and Western European capitals that have always supported. The most tragic, or amusing, the story is that these dramatic jilting by Western powers to them taking place the red carpet and saw them as messiahs of stability, are without qualms. In the twilight of their lives, "Father of the Nation" find themselves desperately alone, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, or in a hospital room in Barcelona Quiron.
In reaction to the shock of abandonment, that the dictators want done their mea culpa, but it is often too late because the people no longer want to know anything. Disease and depression take hold as the sad end is near. Ben Ali, who yesterday was at the top of the Tunisian society is struggling between life and death today in Saudi anonymity, far from his earth. We also said that Mubarak is seriously ill. Ali Bongo learn there lesson from history?
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