The former French colony asked France and the United States to help ensure "the rebels return home...instead of destroying and killing Central Africans, " President Francois Bozize said.

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It said they took the five into nearby Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony, from where Na Tchuto was flown to the United States.

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The United States had assisted in its birth only to turn the Philippines back into a colony for another half-century.

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