Talk:France-Albert René

message: Would be good if someone could provide details about these two alleged 
coups:
"The 1981 attempt was the second major threat to his government at that point in time, and there were two other unsuccessful coup attempts in 1986 and 1987."
It says also that he came to power through a military coup. Shouldn't there then be military information in the infobox?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.4.228.5 (talk) 01:03, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clearing a few things 

message: I plan to redo this article within the next few days. —Sesel 03:06, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Planned work 

message: Since there was a coup in 1977, and a one-party state, is it correct to say that Rene "won" the "elections" in 1979, 1984, 1989 and 1993?Royalcourtier (talk) 18:44, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Won elections" 

message: This article seems very biased, particularly the introduction:
:During the many years of his Presidency, F. A Rene was an extremely well-loved and respected national figure. He managed to turn Seychelles from a poverty stricken, least developed country to a middle income well-governed state, with universal health coverage and over 90% literacy rate.
:He is also credited with having provided robust on the job political-training to all the politicians in his camp.
I am skeptical to say the least of any such claims about an autocrat in a single-party African state who came to power through a coup and held office for almost 30 years. Furthermore it seems to contradict much of the "Legacy" section:
:His critics believe that he and his party are responsible for systematic torture and other human rights abuses involving opponents of the government, allegedly including the death of a prominent dissident in London, Gérard Hoarau. After the 1977 coup, a significant portion of the population (including the deposed President Mancham) fled to the UK and South Africa due to political persecution and fear of the new government's alignment with the Soviet Union, Tanzania and North Korea. René also faced international pressure regarding his government's former requirement that all applicants to the country's secondary education system graduate a compulsory National Youth Service which included traditional curricula, political education and, according to critics, ideological indoctrination and paramilitary training. This requirement was disbanded after the transition to multiparty rule and the organisation was eventually abolished entirely. According to various reports, cronyism, corruption and impunity for law-breaking were problems during René's almost three decades of rule.
67.174.141.241 (talk) 12:40, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: The article originally stated:
:In 1981, a planned invasion of Seychelles by supporters of Mancham with the assistance of American diplomatic staff in Kenya and Seychelles was discovered before it could be carried out. An official investigation also implicated France with involvement in the coup.Blum, William. Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions since World War II. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2004. p. 268. 
The incident referred to in the source, however, was supposedly to take place in 1979. The source, the 2004 edition of Blum's book Killing Hope, gives two references for this supposed invasion attempt and a U.S. role in it. One is an article by Ellen Ray in the emphatically non-RS magazine, Covert Action Information Bulletin, and the other is a 1981 article from the Durban Sunday Tribune, which apparently claimed that an "official investigation" had turned up evidence of U.S. involvement in a coup plot; Blum gives no other information. Blum's work is full of badly sourced and inaccurate claims; something more substantial is needed to support this statement. Rgr09 (talk) 23:21, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  problematic source 

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