The BET Paradox: 45 Years of Power for What Misery
By: Joe the Mutant ✍️ – Charilogone Editorial TeamSince 1980 to the present day, the elites from the BET region (Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti) have remained in power in Chad, invoking the injustices suffered under the regime of President Ngarta Tombalbaye to justify their prolonged grip on the country’s political levers. Forty-five years have passed—nearly half a century—supported actively and consistently by several French presidents, up to Emmanuel Macron, without any real improvement in the living conditions of the Chadian people.
The reality is grim: Chadians have grown poorer year after year, living under conditions that would shock the rest of the world. Access to healthcare, decent housing, and basic infrastructure—these fundamental needs remain unmet, despite the country’s oil wealth. Chad is still facing challenges that other countries addressed back in the 19th century.
The army, supposedly republican, is in fact tribal and clan-based, fully aligned with the BET elite’s interests. The financial system is locked down: they control public funds and direct budgets to serve their own agenda. The electoral boundaries, inherited from the Fifth French Republic, disproportionately favor them, granting them three times more parliamentary seats than the other twenty provinces combined.
This imbalance is not only political; it’s economic and moral. BET elites have invested their state-derived wealth everywhere—Morocco, France, Dubai, Egypt, the United States, Cameroon—except in their own region. Their largely illiterate populations live in unspeakable misery. Meanwhile, some BET leaders travel in private jets and purchase high-end apartments in global cities in cash, where local citizens must work tirelessly for decades to afford such homes.
So the question lingers: who did BET elites fight so fiercely for, if all—including themselves—now live in destitution? Chad’s human development index ranks among the lowest in the world. The ideals of FROLINAT (National Liberation Front of Chad) have long been lost—eroded by this decades-long rule.
And paradoxically, it’s still the children of BET who take up arms. The FACT, the CCMSR, and other rebel groups continue to emerge from the same region. What’s the logic, if they’ve held power for 45 years? What more do they want? Who are they really fighting against?
Only they hold the answer. But one thing is clear: their internal divisions, opaque leadership, and fractured ambitions threaten to drag Chad and its people into the depths of despair. Into a hell from which no one may escape unscathed.
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