FN wrote: [1] Incidentally, Robert Mugabe is today considered the pariah of the 'international community'. We've seen the impact on the Zimbabwean economy etc
COMMENT: "International Community" can go fly a kite. It stood by quite uninterested while Mugabe was butchering his opponents in Matabeleland with the help of his comrade Perence Shiri. And THIS was in 1982. The so called "International Community" were possibly quite unaffected when one black (known then too) thug was wiping out his opponent (Joshua Nkomo) and his people. That brutal suppression of the people of Matabeleland was nothing short of ethnic wiping out. And this is the thug that FN calls "an amazing personality admired by many"? FN does not tell us if he (FN) too admired him and on what basis? knowledge or ignorance? Incidentally, this thug (Mugabe) came into power with the help of the then Apartheid supremo (Voster). Voster leaned on Ian Smith after facing sustained pressure from Kissinger. See ...who has lost today because of the games the big boys play for Money, Power, Diamonds and Gold. Southern Rhodesia, once the granary of southern Africa, has now second Sahara desert. I don't what it is about these Goa Journos. They admire based of non-knowledge, or perhaps a commie streak in them. I second FN's nomination for ALL of the following awards Mugabe, Kaunda, Chavez, Castro and Salazar - all known for their censorship and suppression of dissenting speech. All of the above had good intentions, mind you. And then ......they got power. jc FN [2] But, in 1983, when he visited Goa for the CHOGM Retreat, he was indeed an amazing personality admired by many. Not without reason. Apartheid was still alive and kicking. Colonialism wasn't yet taken over by the let's-pretend-we-all-dislike-colonialism phase.
