'While casting himself as the saviour of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe inflicted lasting damage upon its people and its reputation,' said Muleya Mwananyanda, Amnesty International's Deputy Regional Director for Southern Africa. honest and informed academic discussions about prejudice, racism, and bigotry in the. 'He massacred more black Africans than even the evil apartheid regime in South Africa.'Īmnesty International echoed Mr Tatchell's sentiment, who said Mugabe eroded his initially positive track record. Independence Day speech, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July. 'Robert Mugabe was a liberation hero who turned tyrant,' he said. Peter Tatchell - a British man who twice attempted to make a citizens arrest of Mugabe - said it was sad that the strongman died without ever facing justice. Many years later, Mugabe acknowledged the episode was 'very bad' and blamed it on renegade soldiers. Victims were raped, tortured and executed, some forced to dig their own graves or thrown down wells. Villages were destroyed wholesale, according to a 1997 report by the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, titled Breaking the Silence.

By the time of his resignation, Robert Mugabe had become a cartoonish figure of the stereotypical African dictator.

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