MaMoyo needs to be a little more specific in posing those rhetorical challenges.
Robert Mugabe was responsible for some eight thousand ethnic Ndebele slaughtered to ensure consolidation of his control of Zimbabwe in 1982-83 after he came to power.
A little background:
The Catholic Church has issued a report “Breaking the Silence – Building True Peace” founded on eye-witness statements from a thousand survivors. (subtitle: “A Report on the Disturbances in Matabeleland and the Midlands 1980-1988″) The report acknowledges that when Ndebele leader Joshua Nkomo refused to accept Mugabe’s accession to Leadership, Nkomo’s Ndebele followers conducted a “reign of terror” in the territories where they were dominant, murdering several score of white farmers and their families, as well as many more government supporters and officials.
Robert Mugabe is Shona, an ethnic group accounting for at least four fifths of the population. Joshua Nkomo and his “lieutenants” accepted token high posts in Mugabe’s government, and disavowed their links to the Ndebele insurrectionists, but Mugabe was threatened by the continuing rebellion. In 1981 he organized an army brigade with the Shona name “Gukurahundi” which is supposed to refer to the spring rains that strip the chaff from the ripening grain. Of course, only loyal Shona were enlisted, then trained by elite troops sent by North Korea (Mugabe is a Marxist, of course) In December of 2000, international correspondent Anthony LoBaido posted an article for WorldNetDaily that gives some valuable perspective, pointing out that in exchange for the military assistance to Mugabe’s regime, North Korea has had access to Uranium mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo, from mines partly under the protection of troops from Zimbabwe.
Most apallingly, the article shows how a crowd of astronomically-wealthy Europeans are financing the bloody struggles in south & central Africa.
I recommend taking ten minutes to skim through the article. It’s a real eye-opener.
Meanwhile, I sneer at the idea that Black Africans are incapable of being just as horrid as any white person. To suggest they lack this capacity is utterly racist and demeaning to Black people everywhere.
