08-26-2005, 05:35 PM
<b>OPPRESSED MINORITIES FIGHT BACK!</b>
Article by Gurvir Kainth
Harare - Scores of Asian and European minorities protested actions undertaken by the government of Robert Mugabe by waging a minor 'civil war'. The majority of the once 50,000 strong Indian population has been largely wiped out because of forced deportations, severe intimidation and, in some cases, murder. They also faced religious persecution for their Hindu beliefs under <b>Robert Mugabe's Moral Crusade against homosexuality and Hinduism</b>. Approximately <b>five Hindu temples and religious centers were torn down in the Harare and Bulawayo area</b>. To this day, Mugabe refers to <b>Asian immigrants in Africa as white monkeys</b>.
"He claims to be a devout Roman Catholic who attends service every week with his wife and children. <b>Pope Benedict was quick to condemn the recent demolitions that left nearly 700,000 Zimbabweans homeless, but would not comment on the seizure of white-owned land or harassment towards the Hindu minority." </b>- Anonymous political scientist at UH.
Indians in Zimbabwe recently announced their solidarity with the remaining few thousand whites living in Zimbabwe. As of 1994, there were an estimated 200,000 whites living in Zimbabwe and in the 1970s, there were nearly 400,000. As President Mugabe intensified his anti-white rhetoric throughout the 1990s, few whites believed they would be the victims of an onslaught of daily racist propaganda and vicious attacks carried out against them and their families. Robert Mugabe unleashed his war veterans many of whom were barely even born a few years after official independence in 1980 onto white owned property purchased primarily after 1980, with the actual approval of encouragement of Robert Mugabe's then agriculture ministry.
Whites have recently become the victim of land seizure threats from the Namibian and South African governments, but vow to fight back harder than they did in Zimbabwe. Already, a white farmer in the Bloemfontein area is in court after being accused of gunning down squatters attempting to illegally settle on his property. Another one, near Johannesburg, fed squatters to a lion in a zoo. White farmers in Namibia, most of whom are of German descent, threaten to bring in the German government to help them if their land begins to be taken from them. In Zimbabwe, many disgruntled farmers have begun re-visiting their former properties only to set them on fire in protest. Many landless black Namibians insist that they wish land reform to be conducted in a lawful and constitutional manner and are currently unwilling to engage in a war with whites as the majority of European settlers have armed themselves throughout southern Africa in anticipation for future Zimbabwe-inspired conflicts.
Robert Mugabe remains an icon in South Africa amongst young blacks
Article by Gurvir Kainth
Harare - Scores of Asian and European minorities protested actions undertaken by the government of Robert Mugabe by waging a minor 'civil war'. The majority of the once 50,000 strong Indian population has been largely wiped out because of forced deportations, severe intimidation and, in some cases, murder. They also faced religious persecution for their Hindu beliefs under <b>Robert Mugabe's Moral Crusade against homosexuality and Hinduism</b>. Approximately <b>five Hindu temples and religious centers were torn down in the Harare and Bulawayo area</b>. To this day, Mugabe refers to <b>Asian immigrants in Africa as white monkeys</b>.
"He claims to be a devout Roman Catholic who attends service every week with his wife and children. <b>Pope Benedict was quick to condemn the recent demolitions that left nearly 700,000 Zimbabweans homeless, but would not comment on the seizure of white-owned land or harassment towards the Hindu minority." </b>- Anonymous political scientist at UH.
Indians in Zimbabwe recently announced their solidarity with the remaining few thousand whites living in Zimbabwe. As of 1994, there were an estimated 200,000 whites living in Zimbabwe and in the 1970s, there were nearly 400,000. As President Mugabe intensified his anti-white rhetoric throughout the 1990s, few whites believed they would be the victims of an onslaught of daily racist propaganda and vicious attacks carried out against them and their families. Robert Mugabe unleashed his war veterans many of whom were barely even born a few years after official independence in 1980 onto white owned property purchased primarily after 1980, with the actual approval of encouragement of Robert Mugabe's then agriculture ministry.
Whites have recently become the victim of land seizure threats from the Namibian and South African governments, but vow to fight back harder than they did in Zimbabwe. Already, a white farmer in the Bloemfontein area is in court after being accused of gunning down squatters attempting to illegally settle on his property. Another one, near Johannesburg, fed squatters to a lion in a zoo. White farmers in Namibia, most of whom are of German descent, threaten to bring in the German government to help them if their land begins to be taken from them. In Zimbabwe, many disgruntled farmers have begun re-visiting their former properties only to set them on fire in protest. Many landless black Namibians insist that they wish land reform to be conducted in a lawful and constitutional manner and are currently unwilling to engage in a war with whites as the majority of European settlers have armed themselves throughout southern Africa in anticipation for future Zimbabwe-inspired conflicts.
Robert Mugabe remains an icon in South Africa amongst young blacks