MANCHAM: RENE CONDUCTED COUP AGAINST HIS OWN GOVERNMENT
Albert Rene is a living contradiction because he is probably the only person to have conducted a coup d’etat against his own government, according to former president
The former President said that he had deliberately stayed away from
“What liberation are we celebrating” Mancham told the crowd “throughout 200 years as a British colony we’ve never had one person classified as a political prisoner, in contrast to the period since the coup d’etat in June 1977, and many have also been killed, made to disappear while a large number of the population have fled the country seeking asylum in foreign lands.” The Seychellois have been more divided and suffered terribly since Rene introduced his one-party state after the coup d’etat than during the whole of the colonial period.
Mancham said that Rene’s SPPF propaganda has tried, over the years to castigate the illegal take over of the legitimate government of the newly independent
“If when Mr Michel had gone on an official trip overseas Vice-president Belmont had staged a coup, would it have been justified?” Mancham asked. That is what Rene did to Mancham the crowd was told.