Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoTIL in 1985 French government agents bombed and sank a Greenpeace ship docked in Auckland, New Zealand, killing a freelance photographeren.m.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1348arrow-down13
arrow-up1345arrow-down1external-linkTIL in 1985 French government agents bombed and sank a Greenpeace ship docked in Auckland, New Zealand, killing a freelance photographeren.m.wikipedia.orgSjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squarecabbage@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up65arrow-down1·edit-21 month ago The French embassy in Wellington denied involvement, stating that “the French Government does not deal with its opponents in such ways”. The poor ambassador must have been so fucking annoyed to learn that this is, in fact, how the French government deals with its opponents. He would perhaps have been less surprised had he ever been randomly arrested or beaten up by cops at a political protest.
minus-squarewildbus8979@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 month ago He would perhaps have been less surprised had he ever been randomly arrested or beaten up by cops at a political protest. RIP Malik Oussekine
minus-squaremasquenox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month agoOh the French? You mean the state that helped arm, train and fund the people that perpetrated the Rwandan Genocide and is still, to this day, protecting the architects of said genocide? Color me surprised.
The poor ambassador must have been so fucking annoyed to learn that this is, in fact, how the French government deals with its opponents.
He would perhaps have been less surprised had he ever been randomly arrested or beaten up by cops at a political protest.
RIP Malik Oussekine
Oh the French? You mean the state that helped arm, train and fund the people that perpetrated the Rwandan Genocide and is still, to this day, protecting the architects of said genocide?
Color me surprised.