Robert Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe (21 February 1924 - 6 September 2019) was the native Marxist terrorist leader who became head of government of Zimbabwe between 1980 and 2017; as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and as President after 1987.[1] He rose to prominence in the 1960s as a Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) leader in terrorist warfare against order and stability in Rhodesia in the Rhodesian Bush War (1964–1979), during which his men committed horrible atrocities - mostly against their own African people - and brought down two airliners murdering everyone on board.
From 1998 Mugabe's policies increasingly elicited domestic and international denunciation. Mugabe's government pursued a costly intervention in the Second Congo War, confiscated thousands of White-owned farms[2] & businesses,[3] printed hundreds of trillions of Zimbabwean dollars triggering hyperinflation,[4] and harassed and intimidated political opponents, particularly members of the Movement for Democratic Change.[5] Zimbabwe's economy spiralled downward, with food and oil shortages,[6], destruction of the agricultural economy, and massive internal displacement[7] with White flight.[8][9] The treatment of the White minority has also been harshly criticized.[10][11][12]
Regarding the anti-White policies, see the article on Zimbabwe.
References
- ↑ Chan, Stephen (2003). Robert Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence, 123.
- ↑ https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2002/06/27/from-breadbasket-to-basket-case
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-zimbabwe-election-tsvangirai.html?hp
- ↑ http://www.zimbabwesituation.com/jan4b_2008.html#Z11
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/world/africa/06zimbabwe.html
- ↑ http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/50717/2008/03/15-091541-1.htm
- ↑ IDMC_Internal_Displacement_Global_Overview_2007 pdf
- ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1564285/One-million-fleeing-Zimbabwe-for-South-Africa.html
- ↑ Guest, Robert. The Shackled Continent: Africa's Past, Present and Future. Pan Books, 2005.
- ↑ "UK anger over Zimbabwe violence". BBC News. 2000-04-01. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/698175.stm.
- ↑ McGreal, Peter (2007-04-02). "Corrupt, greedy and violent: Mugabe attacked by Catholic bishops after years of silence". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,,2048032,00.html.
- ↑ Bentley, Daniel (2007-09-17). "Sentamu urges Mugabe Action". The Independent. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2970781.ece.
