How Meles is seen in Arican media, reference for G/M
The Herald (Harare)
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August 11, 2005
Posted to the web August 11, 2005
Harare
Zimbabweans should open their eyes to what is happening to them, through attempts by the metropolitan powers to use them as pawns in pursuit of metropolitan interests like they did in Ghana in 1966 when they engineered economic hardships to overthrow Kwame Nkrumah, says Editor of the New African magazine, BAFFOUR ANKOMAH who was the rapporteur at the just ended Zimbabwe International Book Affair (ZIBF). The following is an excerpt of his speech.
The Americans and British so happen to be the same people who are the most vociferous in preaching human rights to the African.
African human rights are not respected by those who claim to teach us human rights; historically, they have demonstrated time and again that they don't care about our human rights.
They only care when they want to use us as pawns in pursuit of their national interests.
Just look at this irony. There is a Prime Minister in Ethiopia called Meles Zenawi. His government held elections two months ago and, as I speak, they have not been able to announce the final results. And when people went into the streets to protest, over 30 of them were shot dead in Addis Ababa.
And what did the champions of human rights, democracy and good governance do? They rewarded him with an invite to the G8 summit in Gleneagles! Did they shake his hand when he arrived? Did they wine and dine with him?
The same people would not shake the hand of President Robert Mugabe! Imagine - you just imagine - if elections had been held here in Zimbabwe, and for two months the Government had not been able to announce the final results, and when people went into the streets to protest, over 30 of them had been shot dead in Harare!
Imagine how American cruise missiles would by now be falling on Harare from Fort Bragg in the United States and all these other places in the name of protecting democracy, human rights and good governance! But in Addis Ababa, they reward the Prime Minister with an invite to the G8 summit!
I have always wondered where human rights had gone - on holiday perhaps - when nearly five million people died directly and indirectly from the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo - a war that would not have been possible if America and Britain had not given copious political, financial and military support to Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.
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