BERTRAND C. BELLAIGUE

In his books, Bertrand C. Bellaigue is reminding fourty years in the life of a foreign correspondant He was in Morocco during their fight for independance and Vietnam wars. In the sixties, being the only western correspondant he stayed two years in Rangoon, Burma. After this assignment, he was bound to witness three governments overthrows in Nigeria then Ghana, and Haile Selassié's fall in Ethiopia. The follwing year, sent to Kenya and East Africa, he went to Burundi during a first genocide to fly over more than 150 000 african corpses on board of a helicopter, within a single afternoon in April 1972. For five years in Argentina and Paraguay, he lived under two bloody military governments. and then, he was assigned to Spain. He lived in Madrid during seven years of "movida" and "transition" following Franco's death. Before becoming a defence correspondant for five years in Paris and abroad (1980 to 1984), he had been wandering through several wars (Indochina french war (1953), Sino-Indian war (1962), US-Vietnam war in 1964, the battle of Beyrouth (Lebanon) (1981-82-83).