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Britain has played role in woes Zimbabwe faces
The current Zimbabwe crisis is a crime against humanity; it should not be happening in the 21st century. Yet, it may be feeble-minded to believe that the country's woes are due to one 'madman', Robert Mugabe. Britain may be just as implicated in the disaster as Mugabe.
British land agreements in Kenya and Zimbabwe with locals a mockery
Land issue has been at the core of Zimbabwe’s political woes. Smith was deeply committed to a constituency of white farmers, which was historically favoured by allocation of the country’s fertile land to a 275,000-strong white minority. The remaining half of the land belonged to five million Blacks. This was the political reality that set the stage for the political rise of Mugabe. Since Rhodesia was a British colony, was Mugabe ultimately a British creation?
South Africa's policy shift on Myanmar justified
Earlier this year, this column accused post-apartheid South Africa of betraying the aspirations of the entire Third World on the issue of human rights. What was involved? In 2006, SA became a non-permanent member of the powerful UN Security Council. Before the council was a proposition to condemn human rights violations by Myanmar's military junta. In February 2007, SA voted against that resolution on procedural grounds.