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What a hypocrisy
Jun. 3rd, 2008 01:05 pmMugabe presence at global hunger summit drops jaws
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-mugabe3-2008jun03,0,6963109.story
Plenty, say several of the leaders who find themselves joining Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe here for a three-day crisis meeting on the soaring prices of food.
"It is obscene," said Douglas Alexander, Britain's international development secretary and the head of its delegation. Alexander told BBC radio Monday that he would refuse to acknowledge Mugabe, saying the president's "profound misrule" condemned millions of Zimbabweans to dependence on food aid for survival.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-mugabe3-2008jun03,0,6963109.story
The Zimbabwe president's attendance is 'obscene,' says one incredulous participant at a U.N. agency's crisis meeting in Rome.
ROME -- So what's wrong with a man accused of starving his people attending a global summit on world hunger?Plenty, say several of the leaders who find themselves joining Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe here for a three-day crisis meeting on the soaring prices of food.
"It is obscene," said Douglas Alexander, Britain's international development secretary and the head of its delegation. Alexander told BBC radio Monday that he would refuse to acknowledge Mugabe, saying the president's "profound misrule" condemned millions of Zimbabweans to dependence on food aid for survival.
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