One of the dogs of war has drifted of this mortal coil. Bob Denard was a mercenary by trade. He profited on the misery of war torn parts of Africa for the better part of 40 years. He is probably best known for the overthrow of the sitting government in Comoros in 1995.
From France 24:
Denard, whose colourful and sometimes violent career as a mercenary in the Indian Ocean islands stretched back to 1975, was one of several European “Dogs of War” to play a major role in a series of African wars during the 1960s and 1970s.
In documents filed for the Comoros case, investigating magistrate Baudoin Thouvenot said he believed Denard had initiated the coup but that the French secret services, worried by the authoritarian stance of the Comoran authorities, had probably known about it and turned a blind eye.
Denard served in France’s marines and the French colonial police in Morocco before a high-profile career as a mercenary during which he led ruthless, often ill-disciplined bands of European ex-soldiers, sometimes dubbed “Les affreux” (”the terrible ones”) in wars in Yemen, Biafra and Congo.
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Tags: Bob Denard, Dogs or War, Mercenaries, Killer For Hire
