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  • Guilty of genocide: the leader who unleashed a 'Red Terror' on Africa

    12/12/2006 4:08:25 PM PST · by MadIvan · 13 replies · 479+ views
    The Times ^ | December 13, 2006 | Jonathon Clayton
    Ethiopia’s brutal Marxist dictator, known as the African Pol Pot, became the first fallen leader to be found guilty yesterday of genocide in his own country after a 12-year trial.Mengistu Haile Mariam, the former President, who fled to Zimbabwe in 1991, was accused along with top members of his military Government of killing thousands during his 17-year rule. The period was marked by vicious crackdowns on opponents, disastrous wars with neighbouring countries and rebel groups and devastating famines in which starvation was used to force peasants into submission. “Members of the Derg [Government] who are present in court today and...
  • Obama says world should resist cynicism over rise of strongmen

    07/17/2018 10:41:26 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 35 replies
    Al-Reuters ^ | July 17, 2018 12:59 PM | Alexander Winning
    Barack Obama said on Tuesday the world should resist cynicism over the rise of strongmen, in an apparent reference to populist leaders who hold power in a number of countries. […] “Just as people spoke about the triumph of democracy in the 90s, people now are talking about the triumph of tribalism and the strong man. But we need to resist that cynicism,” Obama said in a speech in Johannesburg to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela. Some of Obama’s language echoed that of Trump’s critics. “Too much of politics today seems to reject the very...
  • WSJ Book Review: So Badly Misled - "The Fate of Africa" by Martin Meredith

    08/31/2005 5:46:01 AM PDT · by OESY · 12 replies · 833+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | August 31, 2005 | ROBERT GUEST
    "The Fate of Africa"... is a heavy book, but it is light reading because it is so unfashionably straightforward. Martin Meredith has written a narrative history of modern Africa, devoid of pseudointellectual frills, gender discourse or postcolonial angst. He takes each of the larger African countries and tells you what happened there after independence.... Mr. Meredith's critics will accuse him of cultural insensitivity. By knocking down Africa's heroes, he is denying Africans the right to be proud of their own heritage. This is piffle. If Africa is to prosper, the first step is for Africans to understand what has gone...