{"id":340326,"date":"2014-11-01T21:12:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T01:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=340326"},"modified":"2021-11-04T12:53:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T16:53:40","slug":"burkina-faso-crisis-army-must-give-power-to-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/burkina-faso-crisis-army-must-give-power-to-civilians\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso crisis: Army &#8216;must give power to civilians&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\"> The army must never lead a country anywhere on earth. Armies are not elected and supposed to defend countries from foreign aggressions and never to impose any form of\u00a0 &#8220;order&#8221; on civilians. When they do, it always leads to terrible dictatorships. <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>Military leaders now in control of Burkina Faso must hand power to civilians or face consequences, the United Nations and African Union say.<\/p>\n<p>UN West Africa envoy Mohamed Ibn Chambas said the military could face sanctions if they refused.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, thousands of people are gathering in the capital Ouagadougou to rally against the military takeover.<\/p>\n<p>Days of protests forced President Blaise Compaore to step down on 31 October and flee to Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Compaore&#8217;s attempt to extend his time in office was the immediate trigger for the protests.<\/p>\n<p>But analysts say high prices, low wages and persistent poverty have fuelled wider discontent, particularly among younger Burkinabes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-29867819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/10152836613894345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0 The army must never lead a country anywhere on earth. Armies are not elected and supposed to defend countries from foreign aggressions and never to impose any form of\u00a0 &#8220;order&#8221; on civilians. When they do, it always leads to terrible dictatorships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":340328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}