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Central African Republic
Today we come to know this big brother who has a series of titles such as the last emperor on earth, a lover of human flesh in the physical sense, one of the five tyrants of Africa, a tax collection machine on earth, Napoleon of Central Africa, the last individual in the world to hold a coronation ceremony, and so on.
To introduce Bokassa, we must first understand the country of the Central African Republic, an area of 638,000 square kilometers, located in a landlocked country in central Africa, with a population of just over 2 million people (the population founded in 19960 is now about 4.8 million). The country was a French colony before independence when it was invaded by France in 885 and became a French colony in 1891. It was incorporated into french Congo in 1894, Ubangi Shali in 1903 and French equatorial Africa in 1910. It became a French overseas territory in 1946. Finally, under the tide of world national independence in the new century, it finally succeeded in independence, and on August 13, 1960, it was successfully independent.
Landlocked countries
In fact, Bocasha did not come from a poor family, his grandfather was a tribal elder, but his father was beaten to death by the local French colonists in 1927 for opposing the exploitation of the French, and at the end of the same year his mother was martyred for being overly sad. Bokassa was only 6 years old this year.
tribe
As an adult, Bokassa managed to join the French colonial corps with the help of his grandfather and had managed to forget the traces of his parents' existence. Because of Bokassa's fierce fighting, he was soon promoted to the upper rank of the Colonial Corps. The ceiling of the black officer had been touched. During the period after the end of World War II, Bokassa was stationed in France to work, and on one occasion was received by the then President of France, Charles de Gaulle. When Bokassa saw De Gaulle, he immediately stood still and shouted at De Gaulle, "It's so nice to see you, my father."
Meet and call Daddy
In 1958, Bokassa was sent back to his hometown to form an army loyal to France, and after two years, the army was formed and successfully formed a balanced combat force in the African region. This time, however, the French had clearly miscalculated, and the President of the Central African Republic at the time, David Dako, was Bokassa's elder cousin, and this combative army was formed and completely became Bokassa's private army.
It was said long ago
In 1966, then-President Dakota was ready to clean up the old Bokassa and let him return the "Bojia Army" to the control of the country. However, at this time, Bokassa was highly skilled, and directly launched a Central African Republic version of the "Xuanwumen" operation. Siege of the Presidential Palace, elimination of the Presidential Guard, house arrest of the Old Expression Section. He gave a formal speech at 3 a.m. announcing himself as the new President of the Central African Republic.
Action supported by France
After Becoming the most powerful man in the Central African Republic, Bokassa began an exterminatory harvest of wealth. The most profitable cocoa cultivation industry in the Central African Republic at that time, the uranium mine, and the diamond mine, was nationalized and successfully earned into its own pocket. And incarnated as a humanoid tax collection machine, promulgated various types of taxation, even children without jobs have to pay 80 yuan a day's poll tax. Foreign companies that want to invest here must first pay an 11% protection fee for the investment amount, and the company's shares must be given to Bokassa for free to start doing business. In order to support France's rule, Bokassa continued to mine the recovered uranium ore and sold it to France for the development of the atomic bomb.
In just a few years, Bokassa has become a super-rich man with dozens of palaces, several foreign wineries, 6 private jets, and a dozen wives and more than 50 children, and his ninth wife is Lin Lin Bichun, an 18-year-old hotel waiter brought back from Bay Bay.
Lin Bichun
Bokassa, whose money, power, and women were all satisfied, could not find a cool point, so he officially announced that he would not be an ordinary person, he would be emperor, and officially ascend the throne as emperor. At the end of 1976, Bokassa officially announced that he was going to ascend the throne and sent invitations to more than 100 countries around the world. Bokassa exhausted the treasury of the Central African Republic at that time for the coronation ceremony. A gilded flying eagle throne weighing two tons and 2 meters high was created. A 25 kg velvet robe inlaid with 780,000 pearls and crystals. There are also more than 2,000 carats of diamonds in the crown, the largest one has 158 carats. And Bought 10 bottles of red wine in France, and also bought 25,000 bouquets of flowers and more than 100 kilograms of petals in the Netherlands and Australia.
The whole body is covered with diamonds
At the time of his coronation, Bokassa officially announced the abrogation of the Constitution and the closure of the National Assembly and the Economic Commission. It is stipulated that anyone who sees him must formally bow down to him 6 steps away. At the coronation ceremony, he also officially named his youngest son, who was only 2 years old, as Grand Marshal of the Navy of the Central African Republic (Central Africa is a landlocked country and cannot see the sea. Just like the Mongol Navy).
The one in the middle is the Grand Admiral
The coronation, Bokassa, against Napoleon,000, cost a total of $70 million, compared with less than $80 million a year in the Central African Republic. Bokassa, who became emperor, also suffered from the emperor's common disease - paranoia. I always thought that someone would plot to move in the position. In just 2 years, there were 4 prime ministers and 8 foreign ministers, and his son who served in the army was sent to prison with only a little persuasion, and almost fell into the belly of a lion.
Bokassa also had a perverted hobby when he became emperor, that is, he liked to torture and kill prisoners, and would also send them to the cages of lions and crocodiles to feed the beasts. Then there are those bokassa who will also kill some high-looking prisoners and send them to cold storage for him to eat human flesh.
He has more than 50 children
In 1979, Bokassa's crimes against humanity were broadcast, and there was a global uproar. And France has no way to save him, France launched the "Barracuda Operation" when Bokassa visited Gaddafi to destroy the Central African Republic, and pulled Bokassa's old expression back to become the new president. Bokassa began a journey into exile and only moved to a villa on the outskirts of Paris in 1981 to be protected by the French police.
It is now the capital of Central Africa
In 1986, Bokassa managed to return to the Central African Republic with his wife and children after escaping the surveillance of the French police, and Central Africa was already a post-coup d'état by his old subordinates (Colinba overthrew Dacco in a coup d'état in 1981). Bokassa, who got on the plane, still wanted to be emperor, and when he got off the plane, he was arrested by the police and sent to prison. At the end of 1986, he was charged with 14 counts of embezzlement of state property, murder, treason and cannibalism. Sentenced to death. Two years later his old subordinate Colin Bart pardoned Bokassa and the death penalty became indefinite. Then in 1993, Bokassa was released on the grounds of "old age and illness".
Proper good ending
Bokassa eventually died of a heart attack in France on November 2, 1996, at the age of 75. It's really a scourge that has been left behind for thousands of years.