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February 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
They held their arms up in an X, a symbol used by the opposition to denote the
bound hands of the people of Senegal,
a normally placid nation of 12 million. “Liberate the people,” they
screamed, before being chased back by the police.
Senegal is just a week away from a much-anticipated presidential election, the
first in five years. Electoral law allows candidates to hold rallies in the
pre-election period, but the interior minister issued a statement this week
saying that he had refused to authorise the protests because of the threat
to public order.
He described the various demonstrations that have disrupted daily life in
Senegal for the past two weeks as “a crime spree by vagabonds.”
On Wednesday and Thursday, police sparred with the packs of protesters who set
fire to tires, pulled down lamp poles, smashed signs and set alight the
wooden tables used by market women to sell their wares.
Abdoul Aziz Diop, a spokesman for the M23 coalition of opposition parties,
said that their supporters had refused to respect the ban because it is
unconstitutional.
The president, who is a few months shy of his 86th birthday, has angered the
population by refusing to step aside at the end of his second term. If he
wins the February 26 election, he will be in office past his 92nd birthday
in a nation where the average life span is 59. He is also running for a
third term, even though he oversaw a revision of the constitution in 2001
that imposed a two-term maximum.
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