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It was on October 5th !
(the Press review of the UFC 06/10/2003)

Since 1967, General-president Gnassingbe Eyadema directs the State togolais with an iron hand. Political assassinations, repression of all disputes, worship of the personality, crimes economic, such are the climate socio-policy in our country with the day before of the events of October 5, 1990.

Thus, the lawsuit of some young people for diffusion of political leaflets, will cause the aggravation of Togolais. With stone blows, Men, women, old men, children, ruhrent themselves on the citadel of the dictatorship. The "Ekpemogs" had been born to face the army rabble of the tyrant. Police stations and official cars, symbolizing the privileges and the capacities policy and economic without division of the elite, were burnt.

This popular insurrection leads to the sovereign national Conference and the designation of a government of transition charged to set up democratic institutions.

However, the dictator togolais assured seems it, of an impunity justifying all cynicisms, puts in uvre a strategy of terror. He makes draw, without hesitating, over crowd and orders the assassinations of his opponents (Tavio Amorin, Doe-Bruce, attack of Soudou)

Quite front, in December 1991, the armoured tanks of Gnassingbi Eyadima take by storm the primature of Lome, where the Prime Minister resides named by the national conference.

January 25, 1993, the capacity togolais devotes itself to a true provocation: it is under the eyes of the French and German Ministers for the Co-operation that Eyadima makes shoot at a peaceful crowd. The exact assessment is difficult to establish; trucks of the army having carried many corpses towards an unknown destination. One counts more than 30 dead. More than 30 0000 inhabitants of Lome pass on other side of the one of both frontihres(Togo, Ghana). The order reigns from now on in Lome!

Vis-a-vis with this terror and this organized violence, the challenge which is launched to us today is that of the political creativity: to be able the ways and to put an end to this dictatorship without yielding to the provocation and involving our country in the drama of the civil war, as many African countries offer the spectacle of it.

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