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Bokassa is said to have participated in the massacre, beating some of the children to death with his cane and allegedly ate some of his victims.
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* 1987 – The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
At an official dinner, he said, " Colonel Bokassa only wants to collect medals and he is too stupid to pull off a coup d ' état ".
Bokassa once stood up and raged at chief prosecutor M ' Boudou: " The aggravating thing about all this is that it's all about Bokassa, Bokassa, Bokassa!
The use of " The First " ordinal is also common to self-proclaimed ephemeral " kings " or " emperors ", such as Dessalines, Christophe and Soulouque in Haiti, Iturbide in Mexico, Zog in Albania, Bokassa in Central African Republic, or the adventurer Boris Skossyreff in Andorra.
Bokassa and said
Torture was said to be especially rampant, with allegations that even Bokassa himself occasionally participated in beatings and executions.
But the French courts ordered that all 8, 000 copies of the book be confiscated and destroyed after his publisher claimed that Bokassa said that he shared women with President Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing, who has been a frequent guest in the Central African Republic.
A hospital nurse testified that Bokassa was said to have killed the delivered child with an injection of poison.
He was said to have ordered the prison guards to club the children to death, and Bokassa indeed participated, smashing the skulls of at least five children with his ebony walking stick.
Bokassa was said to have wept silently as Judge Franck sentenced him to death.
Torture was said to be especially rampant, with allegations that even Bokassa himself occasionally participated in beatings.
Bokassa and have
In a related incident, Giscard was reported by the Canard Enchaîné to have accepted diamonds as personal gifts from Bokassa – who fled to France with looted millions from the Central African Republic's treasury, but was still given asylum in France.
Grüner educated Bokassa with the intention of making him a priest, but realized that his student did not have the aptitude for study or the piety required for this occupation.
Bokassa also claimed to have given Giscard a gift of diamonds worth around a quarter of a million dollars in 1973 while the French president was serving as finance minister.
Bokassa and participated
Bokassa allegedly participated in the massacre, beating some of the children to death with his cane ; however, the initial reports received by Amnesty International indicated only that the 100 or more school students who died actually suffocated or were beaten to death while being forced into a small jail cell following their arrest.
Bokassa allegedly participated in the massacre, beating some of the children to death with his cane.
Bokassa and massacre
An African judicial commission later determines that Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa " almost certainly " took part in the massacre.
By January 1979, French support for Bokassa had all but eroded after food riots in Bangui led to a massacre of civilians.
By January 1979, French support for Bokassa had all but eroded after riots in Bangui led to a massacre of civilians.
Bokassa and some
Bokassa was born on 22 February 1921 as one of 12 children to Mindogon Mgboundoulou, a village chief, and his wife Marie Yokowo in Bobangui, a large M ' Baka village in the Lobaye basin located at the edge of the equatorial forest, then a part of colonial French Equatorial Africa, some southwest of Bangui.
Bokassa saw some combat during the First Indochina War before his tour of duty ended in March 1953.
Bokassa called Izamo at his headquarters and asked him to come to Camp de Roux to sign some documents that needed his immediate attention.
The government prosecutors hired Bernard Jouanneau, a French lawyer to investigate as well as recover some of the millions of CAR francs that Bokassa had diverted from the national treasury and from both social and charity funds for his own personal use in the embezzlement charges.
Bokassa and children
Several of them testified that on their first night in jail, Bokassa visited the prison and screamed at the children for their insolence.
Bokassa and death
The republic was restored, and Bokassa, who took refuge in Côte d ' Ivoire and France, was sentenced to death in absentia for various crimes, including cannibalism.
After his release, Bokassa lived a private life in his former capital, Bangui, until his death in November 1996.
At his house in Berengo, Bokassa nearly beat Banza to death before Mandaba suggested that Banza be put on trial for appearance's sake.
Bokassa had been sentenced to death in absentia in December 1980 for the murder of numerous political rivals.
On 29 February 1988, President Kolingba demonstrated his opposition to capital punishment by voiding the death penalty against Bokassa and commuted his sentence to life in prison in solitary confinement, and the following year reduced the sentence to 20 years.
His uncle, whose son Jean-Bédel Bokassa would later crown himself as the Emperor of the Central African Empire, was beaten to death at the colonial police station as a result of his alleged resistance to work.
Bokassa himself, who had been sentenced to death in absentia, remained free in Côte d ' Ivoire.
Bokassa and with
On 4 December 1976, the republic became a monarchy — the Central African Empire — with the promulgation of the imperial constitution and the proclamation of the president as Emperor Bokassa I.
On 20 September 1979, Dacko, with French support, led a bloodless coup that overthrew Bokassa while he was out of the country.
Widespread violence in Bangui followed the March 1981 elections, which took place following a French operation to depose Jean-Bédel Bokassa in 1979 and replace him with David Dacko.
Most controversial, however, was his involvement with the Bokassa regime of the Central African Republic and with a diamond smuggling scandal involving the dictator, by which he personally profited.
Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing was at first a friend of its ruler, Jean-Bédel Bokassa ; he supplied Bokassa's regime with much financial and military backing.
On 1 January 1962, Bokassa left the French Army and joined the military forces of the CAR with the rank of battalion commandant.
Bokassa frequently got into heated arguments with Jean-Paul Douate, the government's chief of protocol, who admonished him for not following the correct order of seating at presidential tables.
Jean-Arthur Bandio, the minister of interior, suggested Dacko name Bokassa to the Cabinet, which he hoped would both break the colonel's close connections with the CAR army and satisfy the colonel's desire for recognition.
Dacko planned to replace Bokassa with Izamo as his personal military adviser, and wanted to promote army officers loyal to the government, while demoting Bokassa and his close associates.
Bokassa received substantive support from his co-conspirator, Captain Alexandre Banza, who commanded the Camp Kassaï military base in northeast Bangui, and, like Bokassa, had been stationed with the French army around the world.
At first, the French government was reluctant to support the Bokassa regime, so Banza went to Paris to meet with French officials to convince them that the coup was necessary to save the country from turmoil.
Bokassa met with Prime Minister Georges Pompidou on 7 July 1966, but the French remained noncommittal in offering their support.
Mandaba went along with the plan, but his allegiance remained with Bokassa.
The American newsmagazine, Time, reported that Banza " was dragged before a Cabinet meeting where Bokassa slashed him with a razor.
In exchange, Bokassa frequently took d ' Estaing on hunting trips in Central Africa and supplied France with uranium, which was vital for France's nuclear energy and weapons program in the Cold War era.
The " friendly and fraternal " cooperation with France — according to Bokassa's own terms — reached its peak with the imperial coronation ceremony of Bokassa I on 4 December 1977.
After a meeting with Gaddafi in September 1976, Bokassa converted to Islam and changed his name to Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa, but in December 1976 he converted back to Catholicism.
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