Robert Mugabe: Difference between revisions

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Just hours after he came to power his Presidential Guard started a pre-dawn revenge rampage on his political opponents and used it as an excuse to murder yet more white farmers than he previously had and seize their property. They raped as many women as possible, white and black, right in front of their families. He redistributed the seized property and money to lazy, incompetent cronies who promptly killed the farms and plunged the rest of the country into abject poverty while the regime subsisted on lavish foreign aid.

During his early years in power, he assembled a special forces unit known as the Fifth Brigade, which massacred thousands of Ndebele in a series of [[pogrom]]s known as the ''[[Gukurahundi]]'' from 1983 to 1987. This was to punish the Ndebele tribe for supporting the ZAPU (Zimbabwe African People's Union) over his party, the ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) which was mainly supported by Mugabe's Shona tribe. These massacres ended when ZAPU leader Joshua Nkomo agreed to merge his party with ZANU to form [[ZANU-PF]] (Zimbabwe African National Union - Popular Front) on 22 December 1987. All Fifth Brigade members were granted amnesty for their participation in the massacres. Although there are different estimates, the consensus of the International Association of Genocide Scholars or IAGS is that more than 20,000 people were killed. The IAGS has classified the massacres as a [[genocide]].

During his early years in power, he assembled a special forces unit known as the Fifth Brigade, which massacred thousands of Ndebele in a series of [[pogrom]]s known as the ''[[Gukurahundi]]'' from 1983 to 1987. This was to punish the Ndebele tribe for supporting the ZAPU (Zimbabwe African People's Union) over his party, the ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) which was mainly supported by Mugabe's Shona tribe. If they weren’t killed outright they were sent to [[concentration camp]]s.

These massacres ended when ZAPU leader Joshua Nkomo agreed to merge his party with ZANU to form [[ZANU-PF]] (Zimbabwe African National Union - Popular Front) on 22 December 1987. All Fifth Brigade members were granted amnesty for their participation in the massacres. Although there are different estimates, the consensus of the International Association of Genocide Scholars or IAGS is that more than 20,000 people were killed. The IAGS has classified the massacres as a [[genocide]].

Also during his time in an office, thousands of Zimbabweans have been made homeless thanks to a land reform program. He believes LGBT people are worse than dogs and has been called "The [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] of Africa", a nickname which he openly embraced.

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 Just hours after he came to power his Presidential Guard started a pre-dawn revenge rampage on his political opponents and used it as an excuse to murder yet more white farmers than he previously had and seize their property. They raped as many women as possible, white and black, right in front of their families. He redistributed the seized property and money to lazy, incompetent cronies who promptly killed the farms and plunged the rest of the country into abject poverty while the regime subsisted on lavish foreign aid.
-During his early years in power, he assembled a special forces unit known as the Fifth Brigade, which massacred thousands of Ndebele in a series of [[pogrom]]s known as the ''[[Gukurahundi]]'' from 1983 to 1987. This was to punish the Ndebele tribe for supporting the ZAPU (Zimbabwe African People's Union) over his party, the ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) which was mainly supported by Mugabe's Shona tribe. These massacres ended when ZAPU leader Joshua Nkomo agreed to merge his party with ZANU to form [[ZANU-PF]] (Zimbabwe African National Union - Popular Front) on 22 December 1987. All Fifth Brigade members were granted amnesty for their participation in the massacres. Although there are different estimates, the consensus of the International Association of Genocide Scholars or IAGS is that more than 20,000 people were killed. The IAGS has classified the massacres as a [[genocide]].
+During his early years in power, he assembled a special forces unit known as the Fifth Brigade, which massacred thousands of Ndebele in a series of [[pogrom]]s known as the ''[[Gukurahundi]]'' from 1983 to 1987. This was to punish the Ndebele tribe for supporting the ZAPU (Zimbabwe African People's Union) over his party, the ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) which was mainly supported by Mugabe's Shona tribe. If they weren’t killed outright they were sent to [[concentration camp]]s.
+These massacres ended when ZAPU leader Joshua Nkomo agreed to merge his party with ZANU to form [[ZANU-PF]] (Zimbabwe African National Union - Popular Front) on 22 December 1987. All Fifth Brigade members were granted amnesty for their participation in the massacres. Although there are different estimates, the consensus of the International Association of Genocide Scholars or IAGS is that more than 20,000 people were killed. The IAGS has classified the massacres as a [[genocide]].
 Also during his time in an office, thousands of Zimbabweans have been made homeless thanks to a land reform program. He believes LGBT people are worse than dogs and has been called "The [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] of Africa", a nickname which he openly embraced.