Central African Republic oil and French intervention
anecdote · personal (Alain Badiou / Le Figaro) ·
retold in 3 talks
Oil was discovered in the Muslim northeast of Central African Republic. France, despite its anti-fundamentalist rhetoric, made a deal with the Muslim minority, staged a 'primordial ethnic rebellion', allowed Muslims to occupy the capital, then intervened militarily to protect their oil interests. Alain Badiou could only find this reported in the right-wing weekly Le Point.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 3
“France, the great fighter against Muslim fundamentalism, made a deal with Muslims there and basically staged that primordial ethnic rebellion.”
“they discovered oil in the northeast and france is paradoxical they're more supporting muslims and chinese are... like whenever or congo.”
“it was strictly triggered by the conflict of economic neo-colonial interests between China and France.”
What it carries
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neocolonialism
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Tony Benn1François Hollande1Benjamin Walter1Joseph Conrad1Robin Blackburn1Jeroen Dijsselbloem1Eric Schmidt1John Maynard Keynes1
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Every retelling 3
Oil was discovered in the Muslim northeast of Central African Republic. France, despite its anti-fundamentalist rhetoric, made a deal with the Muslim minority, staged a 'primordial ethnic rebellion', allowed Muslims to occupy the capital, then intervened militarily to protect their oil interests. Alain Badiou could only find this reported in the right-wing weekly Le Point., illustrating Western economic imperialism,the manufacture of ethnic conflict,geopolitics and resources
Žižek cites Alain Badiou on the civil war in the Central African Republic between a Christian majority and Muslim minority in the northeast, noting that on closer inspection the conflict is driven by oil discovered in the northeast, with France paradoxically supporting Muslims and China also involved, illustrating economic neocolonialism beneath apparent ethnic-religious conflict., illustrating Western complicity in refugee crisis,economic neocolonialism,religious conflict as cover for resource extraction
Via Alain Badiou and Le Figaro: the 'ethnic' Christian/Muslim violence in the Central African Republic was triggered by oil discovered in the Muslim northeast and a clash of Chinese vs French neo-colonial interests, not primordial ethnic passion., illustrating economic neo-colonialism,ideology of ethnic conflict