{"id":166,"date":"2008-06-30T21:17:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T19:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kajleers.nl\/?p=166"},"modified":"2008-07-01T00:36:32","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T22:36:32","slug":"africa-united-in-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kajleers.nl\/index.php\/africa-united-in-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa united in hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kajleers.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/mugabe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-167\" title=\"mugabe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kajleers.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/mugabe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">T<\/span><\/strong>his week saw a conference of all the countries united in the African Union, in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. The selection of the conference&#8217;s host country could not be more fitting for a collection of dictators, powermongers and oppressors. After all, Egypt&#8217;s president Hosni Mubarak is no more a democrat than the man Mubarak and all the other dictators had come to condemn.<\/p>\n<p>For duration of the meeting, Zimbabwe&#8217;s dictator sat back, stared at the ceiling and fidgeted with his translation headphones while his former dictator buddies sat silent.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">H<\/span><\/strong>is former buddies indeed, for dictators and brutal oppressors like Muammar Khadaffi (Libya), Hosni Mubarak (Egypy) and Omar al Bashir (Sudan) until recently openly supported him. Today, it was Kenya&#8217;s prime minister Raila Odinga, who openly called upon the African Union to expel Mugabe from its ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Odinga called Mugabe&#8217;s reign dictatorial, oppressive, even criminal. There is no doubt about all that. And therefore, Odinga said, Mugabe has no place in the African Union.<\/p>\n<p>A representative of the United Nations said and demanded the same.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>O<\/strong><\/span>ne can only wonder what people like Mubarak, Al Bashir, Khadaffi and all those others in the room thought about the comments. They probably smirked.<\/p>\n<p>And one can also question Odinga&#8217;s and the UN representative&#8217;s intelligence for demanding that only Mugabe is kept out of the African Union until he holds &#8220;free and fair elections&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week saw a conference of all the countries united in the African Union, in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. The selection of the conference&#8217;s host country could not be more fitting for a collection of dictators, powermongers and oppressors. 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