Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Two Wrongs Don't Make Mugabe Right

Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe attacks the international community for adopting a double standard regarding his country's drive against squatters. Speaking to the UN General Assembly, Mugabe said the world body had "remained silent about the shocking circumstances of obvious state neglect surrounding the tragic Gulf Coast, where a whole community of mainly nonwhites was deliberately abandoned to the ravages of Hurricane Katrina as sacrificial lambs" while his country was pilloried for its attacks on low income squatter encampments.

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