By Dan Amor
They were all members of a departed era, apostles of a dying generation — a generation that raped Mother Africa to this pariah and prostrate status. Members of the clan of military dictators inAfrica
were many but for space management, we may mention just a few who were as
brutal as General Muhamadu Buhari was before his regime was halted by General
Ibrahim Babangida in August 1985.
At their commanding height was Gnassingbe
Eyadema who in January 1963 organized the first military coup in Africa to overthrow the government of President Sylvanus
Olympio. Eyadema assumed full power in 1967 and ruled till 2005 when he died.
Before his death, he had groomed his son to assume the mantle of leadership in
that tiny West African country like a dynasty.
There is Paul Biya ofCameroon who
came to power since November 6, 1982. There was a Charles Taylor, leader of the
rebel group known as National Patriotic Front of Liberia(NPFL), one of the groups
that forced erstwhile dictator Samuel Doe out of office. Taylor who committed a
lot of war crimes and crimes against humanity over which he was jailed in 2012
by the International Court of Justice at The Hague, ruled Liberia between 1997
and 2003. Also, there is Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan , one of the most treacherous
dictators in the world today. He has been declared wanted by the International
Criminal Court for crimes against humanity since 2008 having embarked on ethnic
cleansing like the late Adolf Hitler of Germany .
They were all members of a departed era, apostles of a dying generation — a generation that raped Mother Africa to this pariah and prostrate status. Members of the clan of military dictators in
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There is Paul Biya of