Francis
Monchouguy was only 19 years of age when he disappeared mysteriously and to
this day there is no trace of his body. At such a young age he had not had been
given the opportunity to live his life as a teenager and although he did not
enjoy the use of a lap top or a mobile phone his pleasures were no less
enjoyable as a teenager growing up in Pointe Larue. The skull recently found in Bel Ombre, which
the police is hiding the revelation of its DNA until after the Presidential
elections is a shameful act on the part of the Commissioner of Police who is no
doubt taking his orders from the big house on the hill.
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| Francis Monchouguy |
One
afternoon on 20 December 1991 Francis told his mum he wanted to go and buy
something in the shop and at 19 he did not require to be chaperoned especially
in a country like Seychelles where we know each other. He went to the shop but he never returned and
when his father Paul Monchouguy, who was the Democratic Party Representative
for Pointe Larue went to the police station, they told him they had to wait 24
hours before they could consider Francis a Missing Person then they will
act.
That
night his father went round the District of Pointe Larue making enquiries and
he was told by several people that they saw Francis being asked to get into a
car but they did not have the description of the car nor could they see the
driver but they were of the opinion that there was a woman in the car whom
Francis appeared to know and she was talking to Francis beckoning him to come
into the car. In those days people
feared for their life and even if they knew who took Francis away and killed
him and disposed of his body they would not give any names. Such was the
barbaric state of Seychelles in the years following the Coup D’état and today
the same people who took part in taking the country at the point of a gun have
the bloody nerve to come on TV and smile at us telling us they have saved
Seychelles and we are doing very nicely when our country is bankrupted and we
cannot repay our International Loans and our national debt stands at 65% of our
GDP. Who do they think they are kidding?
They
got away with murder and now they want us to idolise them and thank them for
our current economic turmoil. Francis had nothing to do with politics and if
they were real men they would have tried to deal with his father but instead
they chose a weak target because they are cowards and they will burn in hell
for what they have done to Francis. The
Chang Tave and the Monchouguy families want to know what really happened to
Francis so that they can bring closure to their loss. Until this happens a
curse has been placed on those who took Francis’ life away and the perpetrators
including those who gave the orders will perish a slow death as their
punishment. They have no shame and no integrity and so far they have not shown
one iota of courage and seek forgiveness for their misdemeanours. We are ready to forgive but we will never
forget.
Francis
is my nephew and I have promised my sister, who has now passed away, that I
will do my best to find out what really happened to her son. Nowadays one lives
in hope and retaliation is not an option because one bad deed to try make up
for another bad deed is not the answer and revenge can be avoided if the truth
is told and forgiveness is exercised. Francis’ father, like all Seychellois,
have the right to belong to any political party because this is one of our
fundamental human rights guaranteed by our Constitution and by International
Human Rights Treaties. Gone are the days when Seychellois would shiver in their
skin at the sight of a few army people exercising along the road in their
uniforms carry guns or a few boats in the harbour moving around aimlessly
trying to show their presence. This kind
of intimidation belongs to days gone by and does not instil fear in the people
who now uses the Social Media to get their message across. We do not need SBC.
This
year Francis would have been 43 years old. We hope that soon a new Government
will be installed and a Truth and Reconciliation Commission will be created and
we will know the truth about Francis and his soul can rest in peace. The same
can be said for all the souls whose life was ended prematurely following the
Coup D’état and the years that followed.
