Talk:Jean-Bédel Bokassa

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:Please see your talk page. 194.117.133.118 11:05 Dec 23, 2002 (UTC)
I somehow suspect that the bit about Giscard is a bit biased. David.Monniaux 21:07, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)
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message: I know humor is usually not the intended effect in the Wikipedia. I hope the humor inherent in the following juxtapostion is unintended:
: With the return of democracy in 1993, Kolingba declared a general amnesty for all prisoners as one of his final acts as president. Bokassa was released on August 1. He had seventeen wives and a reported fifty children. He died of a heart attack.
--iFaqeer 18:11, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)
You may wish to edit this entry in List of Dictators. Wizzy…☎ 21:45, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Humor?

message: You should closely examine the links in this here article. The first linked Website is dedicated to a statesman who served his country with selfless devotion for his service to a nation that desperately needed a firm leadership in  an era of widespread governmental corruption who alas was rejected by the people he so loved. I have a feeling that this is NOT was was meant by NPOV. --Janneman 01:47, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Links, as they are external, do not need to fulfill NPoV.  Hence links from a politician's article can go to there own website.--Couter-revolutionary 18:41, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links 

message: Is there any information about why such rumors were around about him and why a was he cleared of such charges? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.40.10.181 (talk • contribs) , at 23:55, 22 April 2007
:There was a picture in TIME magazine of a throne where the legs of it were said to have been made from the femurs of former opponents, I seem to recall, and implications in the associated article that there were rumours that he had eaten some of the persons who bones were utilized in making the thrones, but it seems more reasonable to assume that if he were acquitted of this charge in a trial by a government which had no interest in not proving him to have been guilty of all charges, it seems reasonable to assume that the proof for these charges was somewhere between weak and nonexistent.  Perhaps the court felt the pressure of conducting the trial to high standards of proof since it was a high-profile event for what is typically a quite obscure country in the West even by the low standards interest African affairs affords.  2600:1004:B118:340:2D51:6DD8:A297:CF94 (talk) 23:42, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cannibalism 

message: Bokassa was born in Bobangi, a village in Moyen-Congo, in the present Central African Republic (then a French colony called French Equatorial Africa).
Where is this exactly? The only Bobangi Wikipedia knows is in the present DRC (0° 6.67’ S latitude, 17° 43.26 E longitude, along the banks of the Ubangi River), not in the CAR, and surely Moyen-Congo was in the present ROC (former French Congo). Flapdragon 19:45, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bobangi, Moyen-Congo 

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message: The "Foreign Support" section's dates are screwed up.  It says that "In early December 1979, the French council officially stopped all support to Bokassa", when he was overthrown in September 1979; and that French support peaked at the time of his coronation, then declined over contacts with Qadhafi, which Bokassa broke off because being a Muslim contradicted his coronation plans.  What's the story here?  KarlM (talk) 20:57, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Dates

message: According to the french wikipedia Bokassa was born in a province named Lobaye. Shouldn't that information be added to the current text?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.138.78.32 (talk) 20:19, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: He was born in Bobangui, which is a village in the Lobaye prefecture. The article now states this. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not love) 21:01, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Place of Birth 

message: The timing on "On 10 October 1979, the Canard Enchaîné satiric newspaper reported - in what soon became a major political scandal known as the Diamonds Affair—that President Bokassa had offered the then Minister of Finance Valéry Giscard d'Estaing two diamonds in 1973.[38][39] The Franco-Central African relationship drastically changed when France's Renseignements Généraux intelligence service learned of Bokassa's willingness to become a partner of Qadhafi of Libya. In early December 1979, the French council officially stopped all support to Bokassa." is wrong, he was already overthrown by three months with French aid. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 07:06, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I suspect the key word is "officially". I have no other real source of info, but it would not surprise me if France changed its official line at the first suitable opportunity after changing the facts on the ground. Countries seldom advertise that they are going to carry out a coup in an allied nation in advance.Sjwells53 (talk) 09:43, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  timing doesn't work on this 

message: This section uses phrase "Despite the positive changes in the country..." yet there are no clearly positive descriptions of activities or policies in this period following the coup. Changes described previous to this statement appear to fall only in categories of restrictive and prohibitive laws, and imposing European culture on the society.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.85.20.234 (talk) 16:00, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early years of regime 

message: Why is the article not named Bokassa I of the Central African Empire? Is that not the style to be used as seen in Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom?
I think it was because it was an invented crown. 154.5.223.191 (talk) 04:12, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: In accordance with MoS, the title should be changed, especially considering he is popularly known simply as Bokassa. --Counter-revolutionary (talk) 13:25, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: A question on the article title

message: * What "2nd Bataillon de Marche" is meant ? By the way - there were no Free French Forces before June/July 1940 --129.187.244.28 (talk) 14:01, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Army

message: The caption of the airplane image is clearly incorrect. The image shows a German Air Force plane, not a French.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.250.202.79 (talk) 13:27, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
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message: In "Foreign support", the article says the coronation ceremony in December 1977 cost 10 million GB pounds, more than the cost of the annual budget of the CAR.  But in the very next section, "Proclamation of the empire" it says the same coronation cost 20 million US dollars and was one third of the annual budget.  so which is correct?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.81.93.214 (talk) 15:35, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coronation Cost as a percentage of the budget 

message: Can somebody put on his prounciation?
  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.64.2.249 (talk) 21:21, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Perhaps the U.S. government did not formally recognize Bokassa as being an emporer, but I recall seeing his country referred to as the "Central African Empire" on a document the U.S. goverment promulgated – a Peace Corps recruiting poster from when I was in college gave it as one of the places one could serve.  Does anyone have such a document or access to such, or a link to a copy of it, or some reliable source proving its existence?  (I understand that my memory is essentially original research and proves nothing.)  When its existence is proven, does this show that at least on U.S. agency had given the Central African Empire de facto recognition, even if it was not the one which could grant it de jure?  2600:1004:B118:340:2D51:6DD8:A297:CF94 (talk) 23:35, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Titular recognition 

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