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Wishful thought and a financial horror by Thanos Kalamidas 2007-09-13 09:58:53 |
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Imagine going to the bakery early one the morning to buy three small hot bread rolls. For three euros you get them with butter and a nice cheese that will make them a good breakfast. The smiling baker takes the three euros and wishes you a good morning. The next day you decide to repeat do the same again, only this time you need to take …750,000 euros to pay and who knows if you will have enough for breakfast the day after.
It sounds a like a financial horror story or a stockbroker’s nightmare but one country in this world has this reality because of one man. The creator of this nightmare is Robert Mugabe and the victims are the people of Zimbabwe. Every day these people have to survive one of the worst African dictators ever, in addition to a lack of necessities and HIV-Aids hanging over their heads.
However, when Robert Mugabe is visiting other African countries for meetings he seems that he is welcomed as a hero, so what’s really going on? Mugabe is a dictator, he is personally guilty for the murder of hundreds, for torture, for rape, for stealing; Robert Mugabe is guilty as much as Hitler was guilty but still many people in Africa consider him as a liberator and defender of Africa’s rights. Amazing?
Unfortunately this is true but, as usual, this has to do with what people want to see and not reality, which brings us to the next question. Is the hate towards white people so strong in Africa that it permits a dictator like Mugabe destroy an African nation just because he kicked the white people out of Zimbabwe?
I cannot avoid remembering Idi Amin Dada, another African dictator in the 1970s. At the start of his rule Idi Amin first kicked – and that’s a mild word – out of Uganda the Indians and Pakistanis, then the Jews and finally every white person to end with most of the foreigners except Libyans and Cubans. His first act was to take all their money, houses, businesses and give them to the Ugandan people so suddenly he got the support of the ones who liked to blame others for their mistakes. He presented himself as Robin Hood, the people’s hero. But this only lasted a few months. Then his crimes made him the people’s nemesis. The deaths, the torture, the fear became synonymous with Amin’s Uganda. Just like Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.
Was Amin Africa’s hero? Oh yes he was, the conqueror of the British Empire! I’m serious, that’s how he called himself. Most likely Mugabe felt jealous and he tries to earn the same title, let’s hope that he will not have the same end as Amin. Idi Amin escaped justice and died peacefully in his apartment in Saudi Arabia comfortable and rich with all he stole from the Ugandan people.
Let’s hope that Mugabe will have to face his victims and die alone behind the very same bars he imprisoned hundreds and thousands of Zimbabwean people. But at the moment this sounds like a wishful thought since the monster is still ruling the country.
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