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Apr. 24th, 2008 04:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fpbAfrica has worse tyrants than Robert Mugabe (not that I do not detest him). The reason why he gets so much negative publicity is that, among his other victims, he oppresses whites of British origin.
(And if you want the names of worse tyrants, here is one right away - Issaias Afewerki - tyrant of Eritrea, who set up a vicious time-lapsed Communist tyranny with all the trimmings, and who cooperates with the worst kind of Islamic monster just to unsettle his Ethiopian neighbours in Somalia.)
However, the morally worst thing about Mugabe is that he is 82 or 83. Still clinging to his misused and mismanaged power, still subverting institutions (including having a supporter of his as Anglican Archbishop, leading a schism), still encouraging violence in the streets rather than lose it, even on the edge of eternity.
(And if you want the names of worse tyrants, here is one right away - Issaias Afewerki - tyrant of Eritrea, who set up a vicious time-lapsed Communist tyranny with all the trimmings, and who cooperates with the worst kind of Islamic monster just to unsettle his Ethiopian neighbours in Somalia.)
However, the morally worst thing about Mugabe is that he is 82 or 83. Still clinging to his misused and mismanaged power, still subverting institutions (including having a supporter of his as Anglican Archbishop, leading a schism), still encouraging violence in the streets rather than lose it, even on the edge of eternity.
