'Auschwitz of Africa' The Insane Dictator Of Equatorial Guinea
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When Equatorial Guinea achieved independence in 1968, its new beginning turned out to be the start of a nightmare that continues to this day. Hundreds of thousands of people would be driven into prisons, into exile, or into their graves, at the behest of one insane man: Francisco Macias Nguema. In this video, we’ll show you how this deranged man turned his country into the ‘Auschwitz of Africa.’ So stick around to learn about the mad dictator who dined with the dead and turned Santa Claus into an accomplice in his unspeakable crimes, and don’t forget to like this video to show your support for our content.
Like so many dictators before him, the first thing Macias did was eliminate threats to his power. His rival in the election, a man named Bonifacio Ondo Edu, was accused of coup-plotting and arrested, along with a number of other officials and ministers. They were all executed or left to die in prison. They were the first to be accused of plotting against Macias but far from the last.
In February 1969, Foreign Minister Atanasio Ndongo was accused of a different coup attempt. Macias’ guards cornered him in the cabinet room where the official story claims he leapt from a window to his death. Other witnesses insisted that Macias’ guards killed him, or that Macias himself threw the man from the window. Numerous others were implicated in this supposed conspiracy, including Saturnino Ibongo, the country’s UN ambassador, who was recalled to the country and executed minutes after getting off the plane. Of the 12 men who made up Macias’ first cabinet, only 2 would live to see his fall and by 1971 over 2/3rds of the original 1968 National Assembly had disappeared, never to be heard from again.
#history #FranciscoMaciasNguema #dictator #documentary
Music: Epidemic music
Sources:
Paul Kenyon, Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa, (2018)
Suzanne Cronje, Equatorial Guinea - The Forgotten Dictatorship: Forced Labour and Political Murder in Central Africa, Research Report for the Anti-Slavery Society, (1976)
Rashid Suleiman, ‘Macias Nguema: Ruthless and Bloody Dictator, Afro Articles, November 2014, web.archive.org/web/201411040...
Simon Baynham, ‘Equatorial Guinea: The Terror and the Coup’, The World Today 36, no. 2, (1980), www.jstor.org/stable/40395170
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Men who seek power get very evil over time. It's why a president is only allowed to serve a short term in office.
Like a holiday in Cambodia
Id love to see a video on how evil Assad is, this "man" if you can call him that. More of a monster really but anways he denies everything. I mean everything
You using the South African flag instead of Papa new guinea flag
nice chanal , do you got some videos of Belgian king , or Bushs , or clintons ,
or maybe about tony blair , and any western psihopats ?
Francisco Macías Nguema hated glasses and doctors? Reminds me of a certain Cambodian
Pol Pot. It’s a shame that he was never brought to justice.
Commies doing commie things
Mao too.
Who doesn't hate nerds
holiday in cambodia
"Hates western culture"
Wears a suit 💀
He's a Black African Communist-Nazi
That's some confusion
Did you really expect a dictator to be consistent in their mentality?
And also uses Spanish 💀
Dictators are the worst hypocrites.
Out of all of the inconsistencies in this guy, yall point these out? Dude called himself a “hitlerian-Marxist” and thought that hitler was the savior of AFRICA. Wearing a suit and speaking spanish were the least of his problems
U know ur education system is bad when the leader of the country sends his kids to North Korea for a better education.
It was not that the education was weak , it was the fact that the communist governments all loved China and North Korea systems so sending them there would give them the best communist education
It was to brainwashed korea is know for there commie grooming
North Korean leaders don’t even make their children attend the schools- usually go to European countries such as Germany
Ur education is also lacking severely by writing as if U were constantly on social media and a small screen on ur mobile phone...U get it?
North Korea actually hosts a lot of African countries in their international school as part of their bid for soft power and anti-western shtick.
It is deeply surprising to me that the military never turned on this guy even when things got exceptionally bad.
Brainwashing bf, most of the “soldiers” were children
He was voted in on the promise to steal from white people, so I'm not sure anyone in that country was educated at all. Or of they were, they didn't last.
It did. His nephew was the head of the military. And he is the president now
@@Arnold-fk9fm
My point was that they only did it at the very tail end of the regime.
@@Arnold-fk9fm The military didn't turn on him, his brother did.
Poor little girl. Even the rulers of north korea dont have their kids go to school in north korea.
They do, what are you talking about? Only the most elite of the elite go to Switzerland for school.
Imagine being the only black girl in NK
@@maroc3446 There were some other black students as KIS University, also taken from brutal African regimes on exchange programs.
Funnily, Nguema's family still leads. His nephew Obiang Nguema is president since 1979 and his son Teodorino should take over soon.
Why not you
we will see how long they last when the oil runs out.
Heard that obiang sometimes ate his opposition. Tbh it sounds unrealistic.
well theyre plenty f'n stupid arent they
@@fredlfesl6026he ate my sister
Equatorial Guinea is now one of if not the richest country in Africa. Or to be more specific, a couple hundred people in Equatorial Guinea make it the richest nation in Africa. The bulk of the population are subsistence farmers, or live in squalid homes with no sanitation. Unlike other dictatorial regimes in the continent, there’s almost no cracks or dissent. The citizenry is too beaten down and trying to feed themselves to care about politics, and the military top brass is extremely wealthy. The only real threat is EG’s entire economy being petroleum based, and and its small area of offshore drilling rights can’t sustain them forever. Time will tell, but it’s likely for at least the next several decades, nothing will change.
Africa has turned to sh*t. I were a kid when I lived in West, East and South Africa. But because the West keep interfering it causes political problems that take decades to recover from.
And the only reason us Westerners keep sticking our noses in their business is for the rare minerals they have.
Americans are the worst for it!
Kinda weird how the writers of that video left out that they're swimming in oil.
It’s an extremely wealthy country. Pretty much the Qatar of Africa. Except unlike in Qatar where almost everyone is obscenely wealthy, only a select few have wealth in EG.
I've lived in West, East and South Africa.
Witnessed various cultures growing up.
As I got older, took a interest in development.
There is one common factor in Africa.
Every single country in Africa is riddled with toxic corruption.
Africa will never change.
Must have been interesting, at least. There are some bright spots like Tanzania. But overall yeah, lots of work needs to be done.
His nephew is president now, the plight continues
A country of weak men.
He is way better. I mean he is corrupt but at least not insane
@@rapperx9820 doesn't make him any better, EG is still a miserable hellhole with thousands living in absolute poverty.
@@rapperx9820 He's still fairly insane. He banned fishing because a witch doctor told him it would lead to the end of his rule. He stopped the oil companies eradicating malaria on Malabo because they wouldn't bribe his wife to do so. The oldest son is allowed to run wild on rape binges whenever he's back in the country. He's pretty insane, just not extraordinarily insane.
As a Nigerian I can attest to this 😢😢😢😢
Everytime I think ive heard it all, another deranged individual pops up. People never cease to be cruel to others
There never seems to be an end to deranged individuals coming to power. Donald Trump, for instance.
@@Goodiesfanful Rent Free
*Nobody ever blames those who follow the orders though.*
They're still convicting nazis for the Holocaust ...people absolutely blame those following orders
why the bold letters
Easy to say living in the western world
easier said than done, self preservation is one of the strongest instincts we have and not following orders almost certainly would get you killed in a context like this
Typical Holocaust Excuse:
*_*JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS*_*
Set limits on what fishing boats operated, so people couldn't escape. Geez, he thought of everything.
Crazy! Smart people who left.
Hearing all of this has gotten me thinking.
Is it possible for a monster to recognize their lack of humanity?
Mostly because I suspect that if any dictator was forced to rationalize their actions.
It would be just raw nonsense.
I think a bunch of them are fully aware and just don't care
@@tomz5704
Undoubtedly, some of them most likely are.
But others seem to genuinely believe In the insane rhetoric that they speak.
You ask thw a dweo question. You seem to be misled by the Enlightenment, however, into believing that evil stems from the lack of education or rationality. Like good, evil has NOTHING to do with rationality or edication.
@@CaesarRenasci
That has absolutely nothing to do with my original question which was is possible for someone to be self-aware and still choose to be an evil person.
@@thereseemstobeenanerror1219 absolutely
I like how you said, "And don't forget to like this video to show your support for this content."
That's a good way to say it. It's a great channel. I've been subbed for a while now and appreciate your topics and research. Thanks.
just imagin being one of those who thought the day of indipendence was the happiest day for your country.. and then find yourself in a torture room
They voted for this guy tho
Whities owned land, Whities bad
This is the outcome of almost every revolution or governmental overthrow in human history. They start out with the best of intentions but once that power vacuum is created the people that fill it are even more tyrannical and corrupt.
Idiot voters are a problem all over
My dad worked in Equatorial Guinea back in the 2000's. He worked in Nigeria and Angola after that. He worked in the oil & gas industry.
Sounds like an unfortunate familiar story😢 There are a few dictators like this still around today
Such as in Equatorial Guinea, where Nguema was toppled in a coup by his nephew, Teodoro Obiang in 1979. In Nov 2022, Obiang won 99.7% of the vote to earn another term after 43 years in power.
Depends on how you define a few, theres dozens
Biden comes to mind locking up political opponents
@@rootigaroot9922please name them
Name them
"we reject all western ideals...except communisim..we looove a de comminesem"
"hitlerian-marxist" is something i'd expect some modern shitposter to come up with
The father of nazbol
You mean neoliberal. Sounds like most of them nowadays anyway tbh.
Hitlerianism
It's what the Ivy Leagues are pumping out nowadays 😂
@@jenniferj5324Ew please don't insult hitlerian marxists like that 😂
Hating the educated people is what Pol Potts did as well.. the guy was beyond insane
Pol Pot you mean?
The US did it to Black people, made being educated a crime.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂@@idipped2521
Pol pot
My history teacher name was Paul Pot. He didn’t appreciate the jokes..
I learn something new every new video of yours I watch, your channel is a real gem. Thank you for making this content
Never heard of this time in history.
Thank you for the lesson ❤
Why do you show the South African flag at 0:23?
Why did he throw shade at us like that
15:32 even here you can see the south African police badge
YeAh I was wondering that too.
Up until now, the actions of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia were the most horrifying that I had ever heard. This blows them out of the water.
Ever heard of the rape of Nanking? That's another level.
Check out Rwanda or the conflict in the C.A.R. You’d be surprised.
It's about scale. Nguema was awful, but he killed tens of thousands of people over more than a decade as ruler. The Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot killed millions in just a few years. What happened in Cambodia was far, far worse.
@@mjwbulich Tbh you also have to scale it down to the population of the country. Cambodia was more populous than Equatorial Guinea.
Congo worse
So it sounds like he was trying to fully clear his country of the European and colonial influence, and western influence, in general. Yet… did they continue speaking Spanish? Why didn’t he promote the return to ancient, native languages of the region?
he did, he attempted to make fang the national language but pretty much everybody spoke spanish still anyways
@@Griff00😂😂😂
Equatorial wasn’t a colony since Franco came to power
Kinda gives the perspective that even some of the most heinous of people or movements originate with good intentions, their journey along that road changes them into something far more evil
You think it’s just that easy to make a whole country switch languages?
love the video you should make a video someday about john bedel bokassa as he was just as mad as Macías in many ways they even met once.
The video was good. Man gots money and wanted to use it to support the channel.
This guy is good. And he deserves thanks for providing when he didn't have to. @Robotfromouterfuckingspace
Thanks for making these videos
This guy makes idi amin look like Winston Churchill.
Churchill killed millions as well
Winston Churchill was worse than Idi amin tho, mf killed more than hitler in India
Churchill's pretty bad, but he saved the world from a worse evil so he's mostly remembered as a heroic leader. He never really had a chance to show his full imperialist attitude because he was a hero of the story. But he was extremely racist to the point where he deliberately refused to make food available to Indians for many years so enemies wouldn't get supplies if they took India.
@@hypertech116aww does the wittle baby need he foodie woodies?
@@hypertech116that seems like more of a strategic thing than racism.
Santa Clauses machine gunning people to 'Those Were The Days, My Friend' sounds like the demented fantasy of a rejected "theatre kid"!
As soon as i heard he burned 100 million dollars in Africa I knew his death was going to be brutal and that he had no chance of escape
why is this channel not bigger. love this content..history, drama and terror all in one..smh.only bad part about it is real life never has a happy ending and all the death and misery gets wa too heavy at times..need a break..but imagine how they feel so we, in comparison are living better than royalty, cause even royalty back in the day only had a lifespan of 35 on average lol
You have misunderstood how average lifespan works. The reason for it being so low back in the day was because TONS of children died before the age of 5, therefore bringing the average way down
Garbage. Most people lived as long as us.
It was the number of babies and toddlers that died super young that brought AVERAGE life expectency down so low.
Statistics are complex and often deceptive.
African dictators. Not even once.
They should make a movie about him
Who's going to make the movie though?
@@elliotfong8794 Michael Bay
Did they base the plot of Far Cry 6 off this? It's so eerily similar, from the citizens forced into slave labor, to a "presidential area no civilians can enter, to the way the economy collapsed in the late 60s to mid 70s...it goes on and on. Can't be coincidental
@wellthatwaswierd4570
Giancarlo Esposito playing main antagonist in *_Far Cry 6_*
😂😂😂
He Was Acting.
😡😐😐😡
OR WAS HE??
It probably is based on Nguema.
Theres been dozens of dictators in recent decades
I thought it was inspired by Cuba
Bro bringing stone age back
Can wait for the Netflix series about how that guy was a big supporter of civil rights and against colonialism!
Literally.
They’ll reverse race swap him for the narrative
I have an interesting personal story related to this country, which is still also an ongoing situation. Mind you these are all unconfirmed allegations. Allegedly the embassy of Equatorial Guinea in New York is laundering money. My dad's company is a client of the government and embassy of the Equatorial Guinea, they suspect that a representative of the ambassador (or the man himself, I'm unsure of the details since names haven't been given to me) of the Equatorial Guinea has been laundering money through the government since he will always show up with more funds than needed for his insurance pay and will allegedly end up walking out of the building with money that was most likely for insurance that would never be paid and end up in his pockets.
You need to reach out to the press with this. If half of what you say is true, then it would be big news.
@@ferretyluv I would need some kind of hard evidence and not just speculation if I want a police case to go against the Equatorial Guinea Embassy. I‘m also scared what would happen if I went to the press about something this serious.
@@mastercrazyyyd7699 You can report it anonymously to a reporter. You don’t necessarily need hard evidence yourself. That’s the investigative reporter’s job. You’re just giving a tip.
@@mastercrazyyyd7699 please report it anonymously
If modern Kanye took over a nation
100%
You are exaggerating! LoL😁😂
Marxism-Hitlerism 💀💀💀
what an ignorant comment, Kanye is & was married to a white woman for starters , I'm not a fan of his but he has not hurt a single person , why compare him to such an evil killer of men...you are less then wise
This dictator aligned with the USSR. Modern Kanye would not do that.
This monster was also profiled on African Biographics.
Doesn't the country have offshore oil reserves which has resulted in several nations dealing with this regime in order to maximize potential oil profits. Please do a video on this subject.
yes let's ALWAYS blame outside corporations OR the US :) lol you guys make me laugh :)
@@Ben_Silverstein34 What an oversimplification of how these dudes even become leaders. Let’s figure out which nation is taking the place of France since they’ve been ushered out of the Sahelien states; I have my guesses 😂😂
Poor folks😢 who listens to a mad man like that.
Had to look up the song “Those were the days, my Friends” and now knowing they played this as soldiers dressed as SC gunned down people is disturbing af
0:22
I'm confused as to why the South African flag is being used when we're speaking about Equatorial Guinea.
Wonder that too
Mistakes happen
Wow..where have I heard the same just recently..
How do 100s of thousands people sit around and let ONE man do all these horrible things to them??
Damn I have respect for how often you said “Bubi” with a straight face. Excellent vid
at 23:32 I have never seen a subscribe button light up like it does automatically at that point once
didnt even know that was a thing youtube could do
I bet some people out there would still claim that all the misery Africans experience is still due to colonization. They never blame it on the corrupt African individuals who hurt their own people
Why do the colonisers protect the dictators and lynch leaders who want to help their people?
Combination of both, don't get cocky...
@Seanke23 Please ignore this ignorant Spaniard. The West assist these cruel African leaders to remain in power as their puppets.
A lot of African suffering is because of colonization…Slavey, Colonization, Killings by Europeans are still happening…they just don’t write papers about it anymore
Its funny because you forgot the mention the long list of them with Western support and backing. And also those that wanted changed yet did not favor the West faced assassination. You think Western puppets are building schools and hospitals? Look at the cartel violence in Mexico how top cartel leaders have US intelligence backing yet you always blame the natives?
Hitler = "a warrior against imperialism"? Wow... Macias was indeed a champion of twistedness.
22:35 Small splash text error, great content though.
“Hitlerian Marxist”? What the absolute fuck was he on
Hitler's party were Nationalist and socialists so it's not really that much of a stretch. Both planned economy models with totalitarianism at their core.
He’s post post Marxist.
Kinda like the democrat hierarchy
@@kenneth9874 shut up goofy
Jesuitical education.
Thank god my Ancestors were slaves brought to Jamaica.
I am born and live in the U.S. I am grateful everyday for it
I'm half Jamaican and it's corrupt there too. Same in america.
@@IyamSoRayaevery government is to some extent there not for the ppl they fill there pockets
So you're grateful for slavery? Souch stupidity, how things are going for you in trench town tho?
@IyamSoRaya yeah but you are generally not going to die of thirst or get your eyes gouged out by political opponents in the US ... at least not yet ... as bad as it is in the USA, most of the world has it worse. We at least can buy guns and have more free speech than most other countries.
Que tristeza
The correct word you're looking for is "tyrant".
And the why the is the South African flag🇿🇦 innit?
In some African countries leaders haven't changed much.
The people haven’t changed either. That’s why the leaders don’t change
@@carboy101?? what does that mean?
Not at all! And its always everyone elses fault
Perpetual
I actually went to school with a direct relative of Macias Nguema. I knew his family were major figures in EG at the time, but not to this degree. He was a very nice person, so you can imagine my surprise when I read his family name in the history of the country.
I spent about 2yrs in EG, working on the Island. The island of (ex) Fernando Po or as it is now called Macias Neguema Biyoko. It is areally primeval place, I have sailed right around the Island a few times - it SERIOUSLY resembles "Skull Island" from a King Kong flick, if you saw pteodactyls flying around and a few dinosaurs walking on the beach you woud say " oh look there are some dinosaurs" no big deal, it really has that vibe.
The local people are really quite miserable and totally unlike the neighbours from Nigeria or Cameroun do not seem to posess the " happy gene" - no matter how bad things may seem to be they always have a smile and a laugh - eternal optomists - no so EG but I suppose looking at their terrible post - colonial history it might be the reason why.
Did you want the independence? You got it.
Watch what you wish for. 😊
Bonifacio Ondu Edu.
Good people are often not aware of the lengths and measures evil people use to achieve their goals
>”Hitlerian Marxist”
Twitter tankies be like
It’s crazy how in most of these genocides it’s always the people at the bottom killing the people at the top, it happened in Cambodia and also in Rwanda.
First thing he does his accuse and arrest all his political opponents of attempting a coup
That sounds familiar
Considering Republicans actually attempted a coup, it's not the same.
This is scary. I honestly don't like it. However, we need to know the truth.
Your flag at 00:22 is the South African flag, not the Equatorial Guinean flag.
@0:22 you have the south african flag there doos
Proper doos
Actual naai
And his favourite title Master of Ceremonies 😎
Yeah, Those Were The Days...
Wtf
Interesting. Soldiers in Santa Claus uniforms.
7:09 "The Unique Miracle"...
What a bastard 😂
What a TWIST that Moroccans were the ones who finished this fool. I'm proud that my country has prints all over the world.
These Moroccans made us proud.
Yeah I hear you people run the drug cartels in Europe
You know what's sad if you look at history. All these dictators came from being poor. you would figure they would embrace human life where did they mentally go wrong? trust me I'm am not favoring them at all.but I find that interesting that they didn't come from or alot of them come from prominent families?but from being poor?
I think you need to revisit this. Most were at least middle class in their own country, most were intellectuals by the standards of their country. Mao wasn't a peasant rice farmer. Pol Pot went to elite French schools. Historically most dictators were kings and the poor are generally too busy just surviving to suddenly be lifted into the reins of power, see failed peasant rebellions. One generalization you can make - freedom fighters rarely brought freedom, weren't well prepared in personality or training to be administrators.
Yeah like the other person said, the leaders were usually educated and at least middle class. They used the poor as their foot soldiers.
this is why not just anyone can be a leader
_Where the F was the African Union on this guy, I guess they was busy dealing with Apartheid South Africa._
You need to remember that South Africans had a lot to do with ending apartheid. Citizens from grade 7 already were taking to the streets to protest, going into exile in other countries for military training & to raise awareness. Even musical artists like Mariam Makeba did a lot for the world to take notice. So unlike Guinea where most people conformed or were in jail or killed, black South Africans realised they were the majority so even though many were killed, they understood you couldn’t kill them all & made the world take note of the atrocities that were happening
In Greece we have this issue as well. 3 families, puppets of USA, govern Greece since 1974. Recent crime was discovered in 2021, when they counted the population of the country. They are guilty of genocide, with half a million Greek population missing in only 10 years.
Maybe they emmigrated from the failed state of Greece? I know a few Greeks who moved here.
@@Fr33zeBurn Of course they left. And at the same time immigrants come and they get paid without doing anything.
Oh I get you ;) Yeah it is too easy to just change country when things are hard. No one fights and builds successful societies anymore they just leech off of the already good ones.@@agpaok0704
What three families rule Greece?
@@Garbeaux. Yep check it out: Karamanlis, Papandreou, Mitsotakis
Is this dude related to Bokassa? Because both of their stories sound similar.
how was this possible?
9:12 first Aethalstans ruins Flokis life. And later he went to Africa.
Top gear slipped in
I'm sure it was more primitive than Auschwitz but just as cruel and horrific.
Ur mom's primitive
Sounds like somebody we know now...
What a continent 😢😢😢.
Associating online digital security with a dictators paranoia is insane 😭😭😭
It’s not paranoia remember c19 lockdowns and shutdowns for questioning?
Why did you use the south african flag at the beginning ? 🤔
Umbongo? Fruity!
The best thing is that he was replaced by his nephew who is now a dictator
Kenya is headed this way.... There's a mad man incharge
Emperor Bokassa used to make “ cannibal soup”😮
The people saw Macias as a saviour and that's how they see Obiang as a saviour. These leaders are delusional and manipulative
I would like to see more videos on the manipulations and interferences of world powers into other countries affairs.
I bet they dont like Christmas
Even french don't like it Ethier.
Its more of Zionist capitalistic holiday
Why is there a South African flag at the beginning of the video?
I never heard about this. We don't hear much about Africa in the U.S.
Because it's a "whyte man bad" agenda
You're jumpin from year to year and back so much that it makes the video kinda hard to follow.
why was the south african flag featured in this vid?
As someone whose country was also colonized by Spaniards, its my first time seeing Africans with Spanish names
I SEE HE FLY ON THAT WESTERN PLANE THO 😂
Let me guess the King of Scotland also?
This is like some of the craziest shit ive ever heard
Same. This is even more insane than pol pot.
There was one who really like France and crowned himself as the new Napoleon