Can't say the man is bad negotiator, huh!
Now let's see what'll be the next move of "Tarata naani Bala". Used to be
tarata saba.
>From: Abdoul Sylla <boudoul@yahoo.com>
>To: malilink@mali.net
>Subject: [malilink] Mali News: Statut d'Ex-president pour GMT
>Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 07:53:10 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Former Dictator Swaps Prison for Swanky Villa
>Tue Jul 16, 9:39 AM ET
>By Tiemoko Diallo
>
>BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's former dictator Moussa Traore has finally agreed
>to leave prison, weeks
>after he was pardoned for murder, because the government has found a
>suitably dignified residence
>for him, an aide said Monday. Traore, who ruled the impoverished West
>African country for 23 years
>before being ousted in 1991, was given a presidential pardon in May for
>humanitarian reasons,
>ending life sentences for murder and corruption alongside his wife Mariam.
>
>But Traore rejected the pardon given by outgoing President Alpha Konare,
>saying he would not leave
>the facility where he was heavily guarded some 250 km (160 miles) from the
>capital Bamako unless
>he got the privileges of a former president.
>
>As an ex-president, Traore would be entitled to an official residence,
>full-time security and a
>monthly allowance.
>
>A senior official at the Patriotic Movement for Renewal party which
>supports Traore said Monday
>the former dictator moved last Thursday into a luxurious house in Bamako
>which had initially been
>earmarked for Konare. The state bought the villa from a former banker and
>then refurbished it so
>Konare could move in after he stepped down as president in May. However the
>former president
>preferred a small, made-to-measure palace on the outskirts of Bamako.
>
>Traore took power in a 1968 and ruled the landlocked former French colony
>until he was booted out
>by paratroop colonel Amadou Toumani Toure -- who gave up power after 1992
>elections but won a
>presidential election landslide in May. Traore, 65, was condemned to death
>in 1993 on charges of
>murder related to the killing of more than 150 pro-democracy protesters in
>the days before his
>fall. Both he and his wife were sentenced to death for economic crimes in
>1999. The sentences were
>later commuted to life imprisonment.
>
>
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