Published March, 21 st 2011

Pro-Gaddafi movement set up in Burkina

APA – Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) A support movement for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (MSK) has recently been created in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to call African youth to stand by Colonel Gaddafi against “the plot by France and the UK,” the leader of the movement Eric Zabsonre tells APA here.

The chairman of the movement, Eric Zabsonre, feels the Libyan Guide is facing a “Franco-British conspiracy’ and President Nicolas Sarkozy (France) is attempting to “lay a hand on Libyan oil.”

The insurgency, according to Zabsonre, is only a military rebellion instigated in Benghazi by French President Sarkozy, in cooperation with the Libyan ambassador to France.

With such serious suspicions, Zabsonre urges Burkinabe and African youths "to denounce the French plot and western imperialism.”

The MSK has announced a peaceful demonstration to be staged at a date to be specified and a press conference of its leader.

Zabsonre dded he was holding discussions with other people on the strategy to use for a better support for the Libyan Guide.

France, which has recognized the government set up by the rebels in Benghazi, launched the first wave of UN-sponsored air strikes, to protect civilians and obtain a ceasefire from Gaddafi.

The revolution led by the late President of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara, has earned the Libyan leader the sympathy of the Burkinabe people.

In this country, Gaddafi has “friends” gathered in an officially recognized association, which did not prevent him from expelling many Burkinabe nationals in 2004 and 2010.

As part of the current crisis, some 344 other Burkinabe citizens stripped of their goods by Libyans, on Sunday returned to Ouagadougou.