Posted on 03/31/2006 10:38:17 PM PST by NormsRevenge
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe criticized his nation's tiny white community Friday, saying few were repentant of colonial-era injustices against blacks or had integrated with blacks.
Mugabe said he and veterans of the guerrilla war that ended white rule and led to independence in 1980 were determined to fight "to the end" unrepentant whites who still believed in the supremacy of their race.
"White supremacists refuse to accept the equality of mankind," Mugabe told mourners at the state funeral of assistant police commissioner Winston Changara, 52, a former fighter in the independence war, who died in Harare on Monday.
Mugabe said Changara volunteered as a guerrilla trainee at age 20 to fight colonial atrocities against defenseless blacks.
He said whites in Zimbabwe and the rest of southern Africa refused to integrate with blacks.
Zimbabwe's economy has been in free fall since Mugabe's government began seizing thousands of white-owned commercial farms for redistribution to blacks in 2000, disrupting the agriculture-based economy and leading to acute shortages of food, gasoline and essential imports. Inflation has soared to 782 percent in the past year.
More than 3,000 people a week die of HIV/ AIDS-related illnesses, while U.N. agencies estimate that about 4 million people are in need of food.
Last year, some 700,000 people lost their homes or livelihoods in a government demolition campaign aimed at street vendors, market stall holders and allegedly illegal housing.
Mugabe has frequently hit out at Zimbabwe's declining white minority, accusing them of supporting opposition to his rule with the backing of Britain, the former colonial power, and the United States.
Fewer than 400 white farmers are still on their land. Whites in Zimbabwe number an estimated 30,000, down from 275,000 in 1980.
Mugabe had accused whites of orchestrating his defeat in a 2000 referendum on constitutional changes that would have entrenched his powers, his first defeat at the polls since he led the nation to independence.
He said Friday the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change had threatened to protest economic hardships, but any protests would not be allowed to cause upheaval.
"Whether there is poverty, whether there is hunger, Zimbabwe is your country," he said.
Fewer than 400 white farmers are still on their land. Whites in Zimbabwe number an estimated 30,000, down from 275,000 in 1980.
Ethnic cleansing, anyone?
Hitler criticizes English as " anti-Semitic".
This old black fool is doing whatever he can to put Zimbabwe blacks on the heels of the communist repression. Better than any white supremacist could dream of.
When is someone going to shoot Mugabe in the head?
I hope it will be tomorrow.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Its truly amazing any whites are still left in this lunatic's "paradise".
Mugabe is another African political prodigy - like Idi Amin, etc. A real nutjob.
Blacks can't be racist. Nothing to see here.
...It's always racism...
A shark calling a minnow "killer".
I really must apologize.
I always thought Mugabe was a rather stupid man, but he actually has his finger on the pulse.
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