 South African President Thabo Mbeki has rebuked Zimbabwe's critics for making an "extraordinary" noise about that country while ignoring bigger African crises like the war in Congo.
| "What's the big deal? So Bob's horrible! Lotsa people are horrible!" |
"You get reports that something like three million people have died in the Congo over the last few years because of the wars that are going on," Mbeki told a meeting of the South African Communist Party, an ally of his ruling African National Congress. "But the amount of noise that you will hear about Zimbabwe, and no noise about the Congo, must surely raise questions as to why," he said at the meeting in Durban on Saturday.
| I'd say that just means more people should be hollering about the pygmy-eaters in the Congo, but maybe that's just me... |
Mbeki contrasted Zimbabwe's situation with instability killing 1000 people every day in the Democratic Republic of Congo, mostly from hunger and disease, on top of the 3.8 million people who have died since the war began in 1998. "Why is it so easy to ignore the death of 3 million people and make extraordinary volumes of noise about another country where only a few people have died. There is something not right about it," he said. |