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Zimbabwe Tyrant To Be Honored by NYC Black & Latino Caucus
NewsMax ^ | 9/11/02 | Limbacher

Posted on 09/11/2002 11:12:51 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is due to be feted in New York City Hall by the City Council's Black and Latino Caucus

This is the same Robert Mugabe who Time Magazine once said responded to an outburst of bloody unrest in Matabeleland by sending in "a brigade of his notorious North Korean-trained troops - mostly from his own Shona tribe - who went on a two-year rampage, torturing and killing thousands of civilians."

The same Robert Mugabe who unleashed so called veterans of the guerilla war against the nation's white Rhodesian regime in murderous campaign against Zimbabwe's white farmers, the nation's source of food in a starvation-wracked country - the same Robert Mugabe whose controversial land-seizure programs, the Post reported, have drawn the ire of the world.

Mugabe is expected to attend the United Nations General Assembly earlier in the day, and incredibly, will be the guest of honor at a reception hosted by members of the City Council's black and Latino caucus.

The Post notes that Mugabe has sought to seize about 90 percent of the country's fertile farmlands currently occupied by whites and hand it over to landless blacks.

Some 2,900 white farmers, many who have lived in Zimbabwe for generations and gave up their citizenship in European nations, were ordered to leave their properties a month ago.

Earlier this year, international observers claimed elections in Zimbabwe were filled with irregularities and that voters in areas opposed to Mugabe were prevented from voting.

Several NYC council members are expected to visit Zimbabwe next month on a "fact-finding" trip at the invitation of the Mugabe government, according to the Post.

Despite the threat of violence in Zimbabwe, many of the white farmers have refused to leave their land, and about 300 have been arrested and charged.

Mugabe has told world leaders at the World Summit on Sustainable Development that no white farmer would be left without land and that only those who owned more than one farm were being asked to give up their property.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: africa; africawatch; honoredbynyc; mugabe; rhodesia; zimbabwe

1 posted on 09/11/2002 11:12:52 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
And I'm excoriated for calling the WOT a waste of time. We'll kill off a bunch of jihadists only to fall to rabble such as this.
2 posted on 09/11/2002 11:14:56 AM PDT by junta
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
The Black Caucus is probably going to get some pointers on pursuing their reparations claims (from White farmers and businessmen here).
3 posted on 09/11/2002 11:17:32 AM PDT by DJtex
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Separated at Birth:


4 posted on 09/11/2002 11:19:51 AM PDT by Slyfox
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Disgusting but not surprising.
6 posted on 09/11/2002 11:32:56 AM PDT by FeliciaCat
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
This is like inviting Hitler to NYC Hall. If there were any justice in this world, city hall would be surrounded by angry mobs of people doing their best to kill this bastard. Who says only "Greens" and "Anarchists" can express rage in a violent manner? DEATH TO MUGABE!
7 posted on 09/11/2002 12:04:10 PM PDT by Kenton
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Just the thing I needed to see on September 11, someone terrorizing because of race instead of religion.

sparky
8 posted on 09/11/2002 12:18:29 PM PDT by sparkydragon
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Mugabe is expected to attend the United Nations General Assembly earlier in the day, and incredibly, will be the guest of honor at a reception hosted by members of the City Council's black and Latino caucus.

Honestly, I don't know how you interpret this other than to conclude that these blacks and Latinos are both deeply motivated by Marxist spoilation and anti-white racism. What else is Mugabe known for in this country?

9 posted on 09/11/2002 4:31:08 PM PDT by Dan De Quille
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection; All; *AfricaWatch
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Rhetoric of blame is now a white lie (AFRICA, HEAL THYSELF)
The Daily Telegraph ^ | September 3, 2002 | Tim Butcher
"I remember Africa in the 1960s, everyone was filled with high expectations after independence. Forty years on, Africa is a series of kleptocracies, many worse off than they were under colonial rule. Almost all of the common people in relative worse shape to the rest of the world than they were before independence. Africans after 40 years have no one to blame but their own leadership for their problems. The leaders want to deflect blame to the West. The West's not buying it anymore..."

CIA -- The World Factbook -- Zimbabwe

First it was Rhodesia then SA now America paying the price of silence.

-A Capsule History of Southern Africa--

Parallels between Apartheid SA & USA today


South African Crime Report

ZWNEWS.com - linking the world to Zimbabwe
... Books & Videos. Degrees in Violence: Robert Mugabe and the Struggle for Power
In Zimbabwe This book tells the story of Zimbabwe from the hopeful era of ...

MPR Books - Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African ...

Title: "Cry, the Beloved Country" - Topics: World/South Africa

-South Africa - The sellout of a nation--


10 posted on 09/11/2002 4:54:59 PM PDT by backhoe
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Mugabe is a
racist,
Mugabe is a
murderer!




11 posted on 09/11/2002 5:10:08 PM PDT by Constitution Scholar
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
And what is the public and press response to this? What if, in 1940, the German Caucus in the House had hosted Hitler? What if they had rebuffed criticism by saying, "hey he's only killed a few people, and all of them in lands that used to belong to Germans."

Frankly, any congressman who embraces a psycho killer like Mugabe should be tried for treason.

12 posted on 09/11/2002 9:05:28 PM PDT by SEA
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To: DJtex
The Black Caucus is probably going to get some pointers on pursuing their reparations claims (from White farmers and businessmen here).

I laughed and laughed at your post, until I realized that may be exactly what will come out of this meeting. This nutball started out, twenty-five years ago or so, peacefully asking for reparations.

13 posted on 09/11/2002 9:07:58 PM PDT by SEA
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To: DJtex
Black Farmer: How me do?

White Farmer: Prepare the fields, sow the seed, care for the crop, reap and sell for profit!

Black Farmer: ??????

14 posted on 09/11/2002 10:08:54 PM PDT by Nitro
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To: SEA
On the upside, he is about to starve 6 million to death!!

I love to watch Communism in action!!

I will go to hell for this, but it is time to thin the herd!!!

15 posted on 09/11/2002 10:11:34 PM PDT by Nitro
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