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"Mr President, Africa has featured a lot today in the debate, and rightly so. Last Saturday, the people of the world – in particular the young people – called on the G8 nations to sort out the economic problems of Africa. Live 8 was a tremendous success. Hopefully, the collective will of the young people in particular will be listened to at Gleneagles.
However, Africa has more than economic problems: it has political and human rights problems. In particular I refer to Zimbabwe. Mobutu has already been mentioned; we have had Amin and Bokassa. We now have another dictator in Mugabe: not content with the purge of white farmers, he has now turned on the black population, who have been uprooted from the land and are living in hovels with no food. We are now facing another human catastrophe in Africa.
The United Nations wrings its hands, the EU has stood back, but South Africa – the model of peaceful ethnic resolution – surely should take the lead. That is why I am heartened by the fact that Thabo Mbeke has met with Morgan Tsvangirai, the head of the opposition in Zimbabwe.
I would like to draw the House’s attention to one statement in particular: Zimbabwe’s police chief said yesterday that they must rid their country of ‘the crawling mass of maggots’. What an indictment of his own people. We must act."@en1
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