From: Elum Aniap Godfrey Ayoo
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Cc: Edward Mulindwa ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 5:54 PM
Subject: [Ugandacom] Mugabe slams 'global inequality'
Mugabe slams 'global inequality'
By Mark Doyle
BBC correspondent in Geneva
Mugabe said technology was being used to dominate the world
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has attacked global inequality and what he
described as the imperious attitudes of the United States and Britain.
He was speaking at a United Nations conference on internet technology in the
Swiss city of Geneva.
Although he is subject to an EU travel ban, exceptions are made for UN events.
Mr Mugabe used the meeting to respond to criticisms of him led by Britain at the
Commonwealth summit, when Zimbabwe withdrew from the organisation.
His speech stood out from the mostly bland interventions of other world leaders
at this internet summit.
They generalised about the great potential of internet technology and the need
to spread these advantages to the developing world.
Vintage Mugabe
Mr Mugabe, by contrast, said there could be no just information society without
more social equality.
He said there was no point in providing poor people with computers unless they
were also given electricity and a phone network to run them.
He then attacked the general world order, saying digital technology was being
used by some to dominate the globe.
"The deadly televised spectacle of an unjust war of occupation in Iraq based on
blatant lies was a dramatic example of a false and failed global information society
founded on the twin aggressive impulses of shock and awe," he said.
This was vintage Robert Mugabe - taking the subject of the day, an internet
conference in Geneva, and applying it to his fight against what he sees as latter day
imperialism.
Opposition leaders in Zimbabwe may condemn Mr Mugabe for acting oppressively at
home; but here in Geneva, many delegates - whether they agreed with him or not - were
impressed by a lively speech.
"And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn
back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'When will you be
satisfied?' We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of
travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities
(.) No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls
down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream". (Martin Luther King, 1964
Nobel Peace prize laureate, assassinated for his struggle)
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