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"Mr President, once again, a Marxist dictator – or rather a dictator with Marxist leanings – who has come to power with the blessing of western governments and their advisors, has revealed his true colours. On the pretext of land reform, and completely illegally, he is waging vandalism pure and simple, but also intimidation and the most brutal violence; atrocities are being perpetrated against white farmers, and against black farmers too, with whom they work and whose situation continues to deteriorate.
We already know what the outcome of the situation will be. President Mugabe’s militia, spurred on by envy and a taste for pillaging, are forcing white farmers into exile, at best. Their departure will spell the end of farms, famine for 12 million inhabitants of Zimbabwe and widespread poverty. But the icing on the cake is that even here there will be support for holding the West responsible for this situation and this poverty. We have already seen this happen in Congo, Algeria, Angola and Mozambique. This has happened in several African countries whose leaders very recently applauded Mr Mugabe in Johannesburg.
In the light of this situation, I do not know whether we can do anything for the people of Zimbabwe, but we must at least have the honesty to say to the leaders of these countries that the primary cause of their underdevelopment is nothing to do with the western world."@en1
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