South Africa: The Atrocities Continue

South Africa continues to advance human rights atrocities, support dictatorships, and totalitarian practices reminiscent of its discredited past.

While the betrayal of human rights can be found across the globe, it is nonetheless frustrating when a nation liberated from the yoke of oppression is complicit in promoting oppression elsewhere. Nowhere is this more evident than in the relationship between South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Since President Robert Mugube introduced a policy of violent confiscation of white-owned farms in 2000, Zimbabwe, once the jewel of Africa, has been reduced to degeneration, starvation, one of the lowest life expectancy rates in the world and brutality.

In March 2007 Mugabe’s secret police stormed in on his opponents at a public prayer meeting, assaulting the country’s opposition leader, Morgan Tsuangirai. Yet the South African ambassador to the U.N. said Zimbabwe’s issues should “remain local,

Of course this is not the first time, nor is it likely to be the last time, South Africa supports dictatorial regimes. It has consistently voted against censuring the military junta in Burma at the U.N. and has adopted a defiantly anti-American posture in every international meeting in which it has been present.

Although its South Africa’s Muslim community is small, 1.5% of the population, it has become increasingly radicalized. ANC leaders have condoned the action of the radicals noting a “clear distinction between terrorism and legitimate struggle for liberation,