Re: Ian Smith, last PM of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), dies
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There's a lot of othe dictators in Africa who are as bad or worse, without resorting to google/wikipedia I doubt you can name 3 of them...
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That still doesnt change the fact that Mugabe is a piece of [censored].
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No... but it is useful to understand why he has the support he does from other african leaders, especially south africa.
Also, I think the point remains that if people exclusively single out mugabe over people who are worse, you have to question why. I think alot of the time it is simple racism, where he gets singled out for what he did to the white farmers, where other african leaders get ignored because they are just oppressing other blacks...
I'm not saying the comments on here are of that sort, but are perhaps in response to biased media coverage and deliberate and effective campaigning by the white farmers political union.
Finally, 1 line comments about a complex situation add nothing.
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