Saturday, 4 April 2009
Robert Mugabe
He has been the head of government since 1980.
He has 6 degrees, mostly acquired during his 11 year imprisonment.
Mugabe ranked No. 1 on Parade Magazine's 2009 World's Worst Dictators list, ahead of Omar al-Bashir (Sudan) and Kim Jong-il (North Korea).
He has been described as one of the recent worst racists. The white minority population there are being robbed of their agricultural land.
In 1980 the Zimbabwe Dollar was more in value than the US dollar. It has become so worthless now that a 100 trillion dollar note has recently been issued. Though people there get trillions of dollars in pay it is not enough to pay for their daily bus fare to work.
He caused a state of hyper inflation after printing trillions of dollars of its currency. The inflation in July 2008 was 231,000,000%
He emerged to prominence in the 1960’s as the African National Union leader in guerrilla warfare against white minority rule. He emerged as a hero.
He is anti-homosexual; he told an audience in 1995, “If dogs and pigs don’t do it, why must human beings.”
His wife is 40 years younger then him.
Even 30 years after ending the white minority rule he still accuses the UK of promoting white imperialism. He has been banned by the EU from entering Europe. Britain and the USA has also banned him from setting foot on their territory. The only time he is allowed to enter in any of the banned states is when he has to attend a UN meeting or to attend any other meetings of International organisations.
He hung on to power even when he lost the elections in 2008. His method of threatening and actually using voilence against the voters if they did not vote for him miserably failed this time
To conclude the truth is that when it comes to being bad, he is one of the worst.
Link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7859033.stm
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