[news] Mugabe, Britain and the Abuses of Anti-Colonialism

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By Priyamvada Gopal - June, 29 2008

As Zimbabwe spirals into further political chaos, [Robert] Mugabe and his party's addiction to power will further indulge an equally self-serving Western appetite for spectacles of Third World despotism. If Mugabe finds it convenient to invoke the demon of colonial oppression...he also enables British politicians to spout pieties condemning violence while their own nation is currently implicated in two dubious and bloody wars...The British government turns accusatory fingers in Zimbabwe's direction while Mugabe shouts back anti-colonial slogans...The only innocents, however, are ordinary Zimbabweans.  


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