By Peter Bones Boniface
The death of ex-President Albert Rene has brought new Hope for the majority of Seychellois who are determined to bring a new age of Unity and Humanity to our nation. For all decent, peace- loving Seychellois, it is a blessing that the evil spirit that has brought so much sufferings, violence, hatred and moral degradation to our society, has now finally left us.
The death of ex-President Albert Rene has brought new Hope for the majority of Seychellois who are determined to bring a new age of Unity and Humanity to our nation. For all decent, peace- loving Seychellois, it is a blessing that the evil spirit that has brought so much sufferings, violence, hatred and moral degradation to our society, has now finally left us.
I now have full faith that we will someday succeed in
bringing back into our society the moral values and loving spirit that was once
the pride of our Creole culture, because the Force of Good will now grow
stronger and will gradually wipe out all the evil poison that Rene brainwashed into
the minds of our people.
The evidence for that started to show in the ridiculous
circus of Rene-worshipping that was conducted for his funeral. The US party
that promotes Rene’s evil ideology of hatred and violence, had seized this
golden opportunity to use SBC state television and radio to spread their
shameful propaganda. But it backfired spectacularly.
First of all, they failed to attract the massive crowds of
supporters they had expected after their bizarre propaganda mass, media
publicity campaign, free transport and other bribes. All they got was a relatively
small crowd of ageing fanatics which included a mob of village people who
attacked journalist Nicette, and were keen and proud to show off the primitive
violence and hatred that they had learnt from their master, Rene.
To make it worse, the US organisers couldn’t find anyone of
respectability who was willing to make adoration speeches to Rene. So they had
to contend themselves with a few sickening eulogies by some dodgy characters
which included Rene’s wife, Sarah. Last year, Sarah shocked the nation with her
outrageous lies after the vast government properties that she fraudulently
acquired with Rene during his 27 years in power, were exposed by the National
Assembly. For the funeral, she decided to knock herself down even more with a
deeply embarrassing speech in which she again lied shamelessly about Rene’s
‘extraordinary’ good heart and innocence, when she knows fully well the horrible
sufferings that Rene caused to thousands of our people.
So altogether, it is very obvious that this sneaky PR
exercise has done more harm than good to US’s image, and their chances of
survival in the next elections now looks very slim. But what that sinister
pantomime has also shown us, is that Rene’s millionaire family and the wealthy
cronies whom he corruptly enriched while he was in power, are now on a mission
to have Rene worshipped as a hero and a liberator by our nation. Unfortunately for
them, this will never happen.
They will fail big time because the evil cult that they are
promoting was built through evil practices which included human sacrifices and
a barbaric Mind-Control campaign that managed to brainwash all the gullible
people who didn’t have enough wisdom to see the obvious cruelties that Rene was
openly preaching and practicing.
Over the years, a mass of people who at first got caught in
Rene’s indoctrination, including all his original Ministers, managed to break
free from his chains, and ended up denouncing and condemning all his monstrous
crimes. The only two original Ministers who remained trapped are the two who
were installed as Presidents after him. Besides them, the little dwindling band
of worshippers who still remain brainwashed today, will never be saved. They
are a dying breed who like an ancient tribe, will gradually go extinct and
follow their master into the dustbin of history.
The majority of Seychellois on the other hand, especially the
younger generation, are today too informed and too wise to allow themselves to
be brainwashed by the foolish lies that this new deluded team of
Rene-worshippers are trying to promote. The whole nation knows that Rene was a
brutal dictator who terrorised our nation with a Reign of Terror that saw
thousands of our people victimised, dispossessed, tortured, imprisoned, exiled
and even murdered. They know that he brought guns, violence, hatred and
division to our once peaceful people by carrying out a violent military coup
and by constantly preaching to his supporters to treat all his opponents as
“enemies of the people”.
They also know how much he enriched himself, his family and
his cronies with our nation’s wealth and properties; and how far advanced and
prosperous and united we could have been today if he hadn’t carried out his
cowardly coup. Worse still, they know that he showed his contempt and
disrespect for our nation, by refusing till the end to offer any remorse or
apology for the horrible sufferings he caused to our people.
After all this evidence, those who still choose to worship
such a psychopath as their hero are either plain retards, totally brainwashed
or possessed by evil themselves. Their poster boy, MNA Aglae provided a genius
defence recently when he shockingly announced to the National Assembly that
Rene’s crimes were justified because of the progress he brought to Seychelles.
What Mr Aglae was in fact admitting, is that his US party which is fully made
up of Rene worshippers, still believes that it is right to terrorise and
victimise opponents in the name of progress; and would happily do the same if they
ever got into power again.
Fortunately for us, this will never happen again. This kind
of dangerous ideology that Rene brainwashed into the minds of his supporters;
and that MNA Aglae and MNA Gill are still trying to promote, will never again
distort and poison our people’s minds. Once our nation, especially the youth,
is educated with high moral principles and inspired by real Seychellois heroes
who have brought pride and moral value to our nation, no evil cult will ever
rule our country again.
This is why I am making this humble appeal to President
Danny Faure to seize this unique opportunity now to take the actions necessary to
wipe out Rene’s evil spirit from our society, and thus help speed up our
nation’s progress towards the age of Unity and Humanity that we are destined to
reach. If he can find the courage to do that, he will earn great respect from our
nation.
I therefore appeal to him firstly, to order a full
investigation into the crimes that Mr Rene committed against our people, with
the aim of issuing an official Condemnation and a formal Apology to the
thousands of Seychellois who have suffered from his crimes. The majority of
Seychellois believe that there is now an urgent need for such an action because
Rene ’s crimes have never been investigated and he has been allowed to escape to
his grave scot-free. If President Faure really wants to bring Justice and Unity
to our nation as he promised, he has a duty now to take a decisive, symbolic
action that can bring a sense of Healing and Closure to the thousands of
Seychellois who were victimized and terrorised by Rene.
Secondly, I appeal to President Faure to launch a national
free debate on SBC television and radio which will allow our whole nation to
know the Truth about the monstrous crimes that Mr Rene committed against our people;
especially the disappearances and murders that are still tormenting the minds of
many families today.
I am making this Appeal because I sincerely believe that once
we have cleaned our society of this dark evil force, people from both political
camps will feel a new enlightened human spirit and a new national pride and
desire to work together to bring Unity, Peace and Prosperity to our nation. I
have full faith that the majority of Seychellois have the courage, wisdom and
humanity to make this dream happen; and it will someday happen.
Peter Bones Boniface is a wellknown Seychellois lawyer,
singer- songwriter and sportsman who was an open critic of President Rene’s
One-Party State throughout the Eighties. As a result, he was often arrested
until the age of 27 when he was imprisoned for several months in solitary
confinement, under the direct orders of President Rene. Upon his release, all
his songs were banned on national TV and radio; his property was later acquired
despite his protests, and he was forced by death threats from President Rene to
take his young family into exile in London where he’s been living since.