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White world neither forgives nor forgets

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Cry Havoc (2011)
By Simon Mann
Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 978-1-86842-450-4

CRY HAVOC by Simon Mann is a must read.
Put aside the racist barbs, textual errors, crude language, the messianic holier-than-thou attitude by Mann and one will fully understand the murky and shadowy ways of the white world. Simon Mann is a British mercenary and former British army officer.
In 2004 Mann and other bored mercenaries-cum-billionaires including Margret Thatcher’s son Mark, together with some unnamed plotter simply known as the ‘Boss’ decide that they want to oust Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
Reason.
Laying their hands on Equatorial Guinea’s vast oil reserves.
Mann gives the reader background to this African ‘tyrant’ they are about to overthrow.
Among his many evils is that he is a ‘cannibal’.
“Tyrants prosper unless an outside force comes in,” writes Mann.
He acknowledges that as with all other civil unrests he has participated in, he is in for the petrodollars or the cold hard cash.
However, what is nauseating is the ‘saviour’ role he adopts from the start.
“Every step we took we saw how we could vastly help poor and suffering Africans,” Mann writes.
“The Africans agreed.”
We are introduced to Severo Moto, the coup successor, who is aided and abetted by the former colonial power which it must be remembered are responsible for the demise of Equatorial Guinea in the first place which they stripped of its wealth while contributing nothing to its growth.
The colonial puppet, with the nod of powerful secret agents that have been used to dispose forward thinking African leaders like Patrice Lumumba and putting in their puppets like Mobutu Sese Seko whom after a while they will condemn, will march in to claim the glory.
“I want to get a feel for Moto,” writes Mann.
“I want to know if he is for real.
“A good guy. I want to know that he isn’t just another arsehole manic for power.
“Is Moto worth risking our necks for?”
After perusing and quoting Joseph Conrad’s racist Heart of Darkness several times throughout the book, Mann feels he is doing Africa a favour, in fact many people in the white world think so.
“I want to make their lives better,” the Western-world appointed hitman-cum-liberation soldier writes.
Mann however does not make it to Equatorial Guinea that March in 2004. He is arrested at the Harare International Airport, Zimbabwe, where they stop over to pick up their weapons.
He was imprisoned at Chikurubi Maximum Prison for three years and then extradited to Equatorial Guinea, where he was tried and sentenced to 34 years.
Mann has no kind words for President Robert Mugabe or any other African during his time in Chikurubi Prison even his own lawyer whom he nicknames the Croc.
Mann’s description of the Zimbabwean security is either called clowns, idiots, f***kers or that they smell of ‘kaffir Beer’. While in prison he is the voice of reason, the white man who is adored by all.
“I have to tell them that there is nothing wrong with the Africans,” writes Mann. “That they are good and bad as anyone else. They fear that they are lesser sub-species.”
Mann is so absorbed in his self importance that he has fantasies and delusions of his own grandeur, “Mugabe would like nothing better than to parade me…there would be a national holiday,” he says.
The reason why the book is a must read especially for leaders and policy makers is that perhaps they will realise that the idea of a united Africa will never exist as long as the Manns walk on this earth.
Mann repeatedly reminds the reader that as long as the industrial world needs the oil, gold, rubber, diamonds and gas from the developed world, Africa will never know peace.
They will groom and raise a rebel who will oppose the sitting government to get mining and oil concessions.
Just after Mozambique discovers gas reserves, suddenly the Western-backed Alphonso Dhlakama will be resurrected and armed.
They will not fund industries to aid development but they will pour in millions to arm illiterate power hungry thugs in any country that is resource rich and unfortunately Africa has those in abundance.
The Henry Kissinger report as recent as 1972 clearly stated that Africa will have no stake in their wealth,
“The US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries.
“That fact gives the US enhanced interest in the political, economic, and social stability of the supplying countries.
“The real problems of mineral supplies lie, not in basic physical sufficiency, but in the politico-economic issues of access, terms for exploration and exploitation, and division of the benefits among producers, consumers, and host country governments.”
Mann’s narration bears a striking resemblance to Kevin Woods, a double agent after independence who was selling secrets and ANC locations to the South African intelligence.
After he is pardoned just as Mann, he then goes on to belittle and smear the man who allowed his pardon. Woods has no kind words for his pardoner President Mugabe and neither has Mann for Mbasogo.
Even when shown mercy the ungrateful white men still write as though it was their right therefore there was nothing to be grateful about.
Ironically had they committed the same crimes in America, France, Britain or China, they would not have seen the light of day as those in Guantanamo Bay will surely agree. Today there is a US$20 million reward for anyone who finds Black Panther, a black civil rights movement, member Assata Shakur.
The white world neither forgives nor forgets.

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