... Jones also says that many people credit him with establishing universities, sports stadiums and roads. This suggests that he treated the CAR's economy and citizens with care. Bokassa himself said on the subject: "In my country everybody calls me papa." (Cited in: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946313,00.html, June 11 1979), demonstrating how the people saw he was watching over them as an almost father figure. However, this sunny view is opposed by Encyclopaedia Britannica (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9080461/Jean-Bedel-Bokassa, 07/28/07) which says that the Operation failed because of poor management and also Krieger (p188, 1933) who claims that the CAR's fragile infrastructure and economy both deteriorated while he was in power. The reality is that Bokassa helped himself to gems from the mines, looted resources and used his country's funds to pay for his own luxuries (Kreiger 1993, p118); he was later charged with embezzlement of state funds (Jean-Bédel Bokassa Trial: 1986-87." Great World Trials. Edited by Edward ...

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