What about Mugabe?

The silence from the world's democratic nations about the horrific situation in Zimbabwe is deafening.
When the nation, as Rhodesia, was governed under white rule, the left wing Marxist/Leninist organisations protested to the point of obsession.

As Robert Mugabe's government systematically destroys this once prosperous nation, its African neighbours look the other way and the West wears blinkers. Aided and abetted by communist-type pressure groups, it was Western democracies that helped Mugabe into power.

We now have a responsibility to speak out loud and clear about his atrocities.

Ian Smith's misdemeanours pale into insignificance when compared against those of Mugabe's regime, yet the groups once so concerned about Zimbabwe's black population have no words of condemnation.

Cllr Robin Newton MLA Belfast