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Clinton Urges African Leaders to Speak Out Against Mugabe"s Blitz

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Original Post Date: 2005-07-20  Posted By: Jan

From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 7/20/2005
Clinton Urges African Leaders to Speak Out Against Mugabe"s Blitz
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Clinton Urges African Leaders to Speak Out Against Mugabe&QUOT;s Blitz

From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org


Date & Time Posted: 7/20/2005

Clinton Urges African Leaders to Speak Out Against Mugabe&QUOT;s Blitz

[Even Clinton can’t deny the truth on this one. Everyone is quoting the figure of 300,000 – but the reality is much worse. Jan]

AFRICAN leaders needed to speak out about a demolition blitz in Zimbabwe that has left thousands homeless, former US president Bill Clinton said yesterday.

“When President Robert Mugabe ploughs up neighbourhoods that coincidentally voted against him he should be criticised,” Clinton said at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg.

The continent’s leaders have so far been reluctant to take on their Zimbabwean counterpart. The African Union (AU) leaders’ summit in Sirte, Libya, earlier this month, did not mention the Zimbabwean demolitions in its final resolutions.

The AU has previously said the removals in Zimbabwe, which have seen more than 300000 people thrown out on the streets, were Zimbabwe’s internal problem.

“I understand noninterference and solidarity with someone who spoke out against the evils of apartheid. But you can only take that so far,” said Clinton of the Zimbabwean government’s clean-up drive.

The United Nations estimates about 200000 citizens in the southern African country have been left homeless after the two-pronged operation that saw the government knock down hawkers’ stalls and demolish backyard shacks in shantytowns over the past two months.

Zimbabwe’s opposition puts the figure at about 1,5-million displaced people.

Clinton said: “Democracy is more than just majority rule. It is also about minority rights and minority participation.

“I entertained Robert Mugabe at the White House and tried my best to impress this on him.

“If you want to build a modern and credible continent you have to speak out against the sort of thing Mugabe is doing,” he said.

The former US president is in SA to celebrate Mandela’s 87th birthday. Clinton arrived in SA after whistle stops in Mozambique and Lesotho. He will also travel to Tanzania, Kenya and Rwanda to seek to “reinvigorate political will” in those countries for scaling up AIDS treatment programmes, a spokesman has said.

Clinton is on an African tour to focus on the work of his charitable foundation in expanding HIV/AIDS treatment. The Clinton Foundation has said it hopes to treat more than 60000 HIVpositive children in developing countries over the next year.

Clinton was addressing 120 members of City Year, a South African voluntary national youth service initiative in its first year that is modelled on a similar programme in the US.

Four years ago when Clinton spoke to former president Nelson Mandela he urged that this youth service programme be started in SA.

Source: AllAfrica.Com
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200507200045.htm…/p>


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