"Moira de Swardt" <moirads@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On May 15, 11:05 am, Zvaka****a <lalapa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Mugabe the manic: Daily Mail re****ter goes undercover in Zimbabwe to
>> find an electoral genocide the world is ignoring
>
> Last year and the year before there were two very good films on
> Rwanda, "Hotel Rwanda" and something about "Dogs" ... I forget the
> title now.
>
> In both these movies it was plain that the west considered the
> genocide relatively unim****tant because they were "just Africans" .
> In the latter movie, a woman journalist said that during the Serbian
> crisis she cried every day because those women could have been her
> mother, but in Rwanda they were just dead Africans.
>
> I think this is the problem in Zimbabwe now. No-one cares about
> Africans. Not even other Africans. Maybe especially not other
> Africans. South Africa certainly can't hold its head up high about
> the way Zimbabwean refugees have been treated in this country, about
> "quiet diplomacy" or Mbeki's further oddities relating to Zimbabwe.
>
Moira
you must be wrong. Not long ago, the whole world was in skirmish
when Ian Smith refused to bring today's glooming life- for his countryman.
Even his best friends (SA - you and your friends) let him go.
So - as you can see - the world cares - but only one way...
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