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>Dr Allan Boesak (UDF)

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>>16472487 - 5:16 - Boesak stands in the background while the song, "This is the state of Africa, whatever black may die", is sung.

“SOUTH AFRICA: ALLEN BOESAK CLEARED IN CORRUPTION INQUIRY”

https://youtu.be/v8oNmw-uapo

1:08 – Thabo Mbeki: “The basic conclusion that we’ve reached is that there is no evidence that Dr. Boesak misappropriated funds of the foundation as it was alleged. We have communicated these findings to the law firm as well as to Dan Church Aid.”

“Boesak charged with fraud and theft”

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/boesak-charged-with-fraud-and-theft-1.116001

December 14, 1996

THE REV Dr Allan Boesak, the black cleric who battled apartheid with Archbishop Desmond Tutu through five bleak years of South African emergency rule, was charged in absentia yesterday with fraud and theft from western donors.

The state prosecutor, Mr Steven Powell, said Dr Boesak, who is teaching theology in California, and a former bookkeeper, Mr Freddie Steenkamp, faced nine counts of fraud and 21 counts of theft.

He said the victims included Scandinavian aid agencies, Coca Cola and American musician Paul Simon, who donated proceeds from his Gracelands album to anti-apartheid projects managed by Dr-Boesak.

Dr Boesak, a former president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, has been under investigation for more than two years over the alleged disappearance or misuse of mainly Danish and Swedish funds totalling close to two million rand ($422,000).

Dr Boesak was cleared in an investigation by lawyers appointed by the Deputy President, Mr Thabo Mbeki. But donors, including DanChurch Aid, insisted on a further investigation.

“Boesak found guilty of theft and fraud”

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/boesak-found-guilty-of-theft-and-fraud-1.164134

March 18, 1999

Former African National Congress leader Allan Boesak was yesterday found guilty of theft of foreign donations and of fraud after a long and sensational trial.

The verdict, delivered in the Cape High Court, was acutely embarrassing for the ANC, whose leadership had rallied around Boesak after he was indicted and come close to exonerating him in advance of the trial.

When Boesak was initially accused of stealing funds donated to his Foundation of Peace and Justice at the beginning of 1995, one of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki's legal advisers declared after examining the documentation that he was not guilty of embezzlement.

Later, when Boesak returned from the United States at the beginning of 1997 to stand trial, the Minister of Justice, Mr Dullah Omar, met him at the airport and proclaimed that he was guilty of nothing more than "struggle bookkeeping" aimed at deceiving the security police of the former white minority government.

Judge John Foxcroft, however, found him guilty of three counts of theft and one of fraud involving R1.3 million (£150,000). He acquitted the former ANC leader on 23 charges of theft and fraud, having earlier acquitted him of five similar charges.

Boesak, who displayed an insouciant confidence through most of the trial, sat stony-faced as Judge Foxcroft pronounced that he had "wrongfully and unlawfully appropriated money intended for the children of South Africa". The judge was referring to money stolen from the R682,000 donated to the child victims of apartheid by the American singer Paul Simon.

The two remaining convictions of theft related to the expropriation of funds donated by a Swedish aid agency for the education of black voters in 1994. The stolen money was used to build his second wife, television personality Elna Botha, an audio-visual studio; and the embezzlement of nearly R325,000 from the Foundation of Peace and Justice to buy two luxury houses.

After the trial was adjourned to allow his lawyers to prepare argument in mitigation of sentence, Boesak was cheered by his supporters. A former president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, Boesak, whose alleged affair with a young church worker was leaked to the press by the security police in the 1980s, declined to comment.

President Nelson Mandela, who was in Norway when news of Boesak's conviction broke, also declined to comment. When allegations against Boesak first surfaced in 1995 Mr Mandela seemed loath to cancel the appointment of the clergyman-turned-politician as South Africa's ambassador-designate to Geneva. Later, when Boesak ran out of money to pay lawyers during his trial, Mr Mandela made a personal plea for funds for his beleaguered former political comrade.

In 1985 Boesak won admiration throughout the world by braving police batons and guns to lead a protest march to Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town to demand the release of Mr Mandela.

https://mg.co.za/article/1999-03-17-allan-boesak-convicted/

Boesak, a personal friend of President Nelson Mandela, was visibly shaken as the judge pronounced the guilty verdicts.

“Mbeki declines to explain Boesak pardon”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mbeki-declines-to-explain-boesak-pardon-231794

January 18, 2005

More than 800 presidential pardons were granted by President Thabo Mbeki since 2002, presidential spokesperson Bheki Khumalo said on Monday.

The presidency had not given individual reasons for the pardons in the past and was not about to do so now that former anti-apartheid activist Dr Allan Boesak had received one, he said.

Khumalo said 428 people were pardoned in 2002, 256 in 2003 and about 100 in 2004. He declined to make public the names of those whose criminal records had been expunged by the president. The decision to pardon individuals was a presidential prerogative, Khumalo said.

Commenting on the row over the awarding of Boesak's pardon, Khumalo said many of the 800 pardoned since 2002 were not ANC members. "But no one complained when non-ANC members were released."

The Democratic Alliance (DA), Pan-African Congress (PAC) and Freedom Front (FF) Plus are among political parties who believe Boesak received preferential treatment because of his links to the African National Congress (ANC).

The PAC has questioned why Boesak was given a pardon ahead of Apla cadres who are serving jail terms for what the party argues are politically motivated crimes.

The PAC has held meetings with justice ministry officials in a bid to speed up the process, although its case was marred by the controversy surrounding former Apla cadre Dumisani Ncamazana who two weeks after his release on a presidential pardon in 2002 along with 32 other mostly ANC and PAC members, allegedly killed delicatessen owner Martin Whittaker in East London. He was convicted of murder and his case is on appeal.

The FF is also on record calling for rightwing prisoners convicted of politically motivated crimes to also be pardoned. If someone like Boesak could be pardoned, then former NNP cabinet minister Abe Williams should also be pardoned, FF justice spokesperson Dr Frik van Heerden said.

Meanwhile, ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said there was nothing wrong with the ANC giving Boesak a second chance.

He did not rule out that the ANC might consider giving Boesak a job.

Boesak had been earmarked as South Africa's envoy to the United Nations in Geneva which was scuppered by his arrest on charges of corruption and fraud, for which he was later convicted and served two years behind bars.

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“PRESTIGIOUS APPOINTMENT AND CHARGE KEEPS BOESAKS IN USA” – Desmond Tutu

http://kineticslive.com/2013/06/16/prestigious-appointment-and-charge-keeps-boesaks-in-usa/

June 16, 2013

It is with a mixture of pride and sadness that Allan and Elna Boesak announce that they will be staying in the United States of America for the foreseeable future. After extended and intensive discussions Butler University and the Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana, have announced that Professor Allan Boesak will hold The Desmond Tutu Chair for Peace, Global Justice, and Reconciliation Studies for the next four years. The creation of this Chair comes with the warm and gracious support and blessing of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.

Elna Boesak will continue her work as journalist, producer and public forum facilitator and is looking forward to continuing teaching and lecturing in media ethics and communication studies.

The Boesak couple’s eldest daughter Sarah will complete her law studies in South Africa after which she will, if all goes well, continue with post-graduate studies in International Human Rights Law in the USA. This four year appointment also gives Andrea the opportunity to complete her high school education at the International School of Indiana without any disruptions.

Prof. Boesak expresses his excitement at the appointment and at the possibilities it opens to connect both Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s and his own concerns for reconciliation, peace and global justice to theological reflection, teaching and action. For both Tutu and Boesak faith and public life are inseparable and the opportunities this appointment will offer to relate both faith and public life to ongoing global struggles – both inside and outside the Church – are immeasurable.

Whilst it does sadden Allan and Elna Boesak that this will not happen in South Africa they will continue to grasp opportunities to serve justice, peace, and human dignity at a time that the world is crying out for faithful prophetic witness. Their beloved South Africa and her people will, as always, remain in their thoughts, hearts and prayers and will continue to be an inspiration and a source for fruitful partnerships in their ongoing work whilst in the USA. They thank God for God’s blessings in their lives and for the opportunity to contribute to the broadening of the African perspective on global matters.

We will remain in touch. God’s rchest blessings on you and the important work you are doing.

Elna & Allan Boesak

>>16535218

>A former president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, Boesak, whose alleged affair with a young church worker was leaked to the press by the security police in the 1980s, declined to comment.

World Communion of Reformed Churches History – “World Alliance of Reformed Churches and Reformed Ecumenical Council united”

http://wcrc.ch/history

With roots in the 16th-century Reformation, and particularly in the theology of John Calvin, the World Communion of Reformed Churches dates its organisational history to 1875—and has been unifying churches over the course of its existence.

“The Alliance of the Reformed Churches throughout the World holding the Presbyterian System” was formed in London in 1875, bringing together 21 presbyterian churches from Europe and North America. In 1891, also in London, the International Congregational Council was formed.

In 1970, in Nairobi, Kenya, these two organisations, congregational and presbyterian, united as the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC), with 114 member churches in 70 countries across all continents.

Meanwhile, the Reformed Ecumenical Council (REC) formed in 1946. It gathered churches that had no other international ecumenical ties and were committed to mutual support in a Reformed confessional unity. The REC ultimately encompassed 41 churches with 12 million members in 26 countries, the majority in Africa and Asia.

In 2010, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, the WARC and REC united to create the World Communion of Reformed Churches.

“Thabo Mbeki | Idi Amin Was A Wise Man” – Posted June 25, 2022

https://youtu.be/u1NIMm9BCCE

Former president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki recalls an encounter with president Idi Amin of Uganda during the struggles against apartheid in South Africa. He also recalls how he could have helped to prevent George Bush's war against Saddam Hussein in 2003. He tells more stories as he, Thabo Mbeki, celebrates his 80th birthday.

1:27 – “The OAU had a committee called the Liberation Committee. So one of its meetings was held in Kampala in Uganda. At the time Idi Amin was there as head of state. So we attended the meeting and Idi Amin kept interrupting the manisterial meeting. Then he would come and then adjourn because his excellency wants to address them. He had one message, “we must first intensify the struggle first in Angola and after we are finished there, we must go to Mozambique. After we are finished in Mozambique, we go to Zimbabwe. Of course we are very fed up with this Amin story. He is postponing the struggle in South Africa until whenever. Fortunately he says – Idi Amin – that all of the liberation movement deligations should not leave Kampala without meeting him. Fine, so we indeed meet him. So we must present our case. Your excellency you can’t say that… Why are you postponing our struggle? My brother, let me explain. You see this is called misinformation. The reason I was doing it all the time because I want those other people to listen. They think our strategy is to go to Angola and then Mozambique and then Zimbabwe. What they don’t know that our target is Cape Town… So that was an important lesson from Idi Amin.”

>>16558568

“Idi Amin gives away his plans to invade Israel.” - https://youtu.be/phPMSCcpb40

“Why Idi Amin Dada, ‘The Butcher Of Uganda,’ Should Be Remembered With History’s Worst Despots” – Part 1

https://allthatsinteresting.com/idi-amin-dada

July 23, 2019

Meet Idi Amin Dada, the cannibalistic dictator who expelled Uganda's 50,000 Asians and slaughtered up to 500,000 people.

Amin was the perfect person for the British colonial powers to mold into an obedient soldier.

So, as a young adult, he worked hard to garner the martial qualifications valued by the British, which had ruled Uganda since 1894. After enlisting in the army in 1946, Amin successfully stood out from his peers by focusing on his strong suit: athletics.

Though Amin would later use anti-imperialist sentiment to inspire public support, the early 1950s were a different time. Here, Amin would act in the opposite manner, helping the British maintain control of its African protectorates by fighting against the Mau Mau African freedom fighters in Kenya and rebel fighters in Somalia.

He quickly began to garner a reputation as a ruthless soldier and steadily rose through the military ranks. In 1957 he was promoted to sergeant major and commanded his own platoon.

Two years later, Amin was given the rank of "effendi," the highest rank available to native-born soldiers in Uganda. By 1962, Amin had the highest rank of any African in the military.

Idi Amin And Milton Obote

Despite his increasing military clout, Idi Amin Dada soon got in trouble for his ruthless ways. In 1962, after a simple assignment to root out cattle-stealers, it was reported that Amin and his men had committed brutal atrocities.

British authorities in Nairobi exhumed the bodies and found that the victims had been tortured and beaten to death. Some had been buried alive.

Since Amin was one of only two high-ranking African officers — and Uganda was nearing its Oct. 9, 1962 independence from Britain — Obote and British officials decided not to prosecute Amin. Instead, Obote promoted him and sent him to the U.K. for further military training.

More importantly, according to History, Amin and prime minister Obote formed a lucrative alliance in 1964, rooted in an expansion of the Ugandan Army and various smuggling operations.

Understandably, Obote's abuse of power upset other Ugandan leaders. Most notably, King Metusa II of Buganda, one of Uganda's precolonial kingdoms, asked for a thorough inquiry into the prime minister's dealings. Obote responded by putting in place his own commission that essentially let him off the hook.

Meanwhile, Obote further promoted Amin to major in 1963 and to colonel in 1964. In 1966, the Ugandan Parliament charged Amin with misappropriating $350,000 worth of gold and ivory from guerrillas in the Congo he was supposed to supply with arms. In response, Amin's forces arrested the five ministers who raised the issue and Obote suspended the constitution, appointing himself president.

Amin ultimately seized control with a military coup on Jan. 25, 1971, while Obote was flying back from a conference in Singapore. In an ironic twist of fate, Obote was forced into exile by the same man he empowered. He wouldn't return until after Amin's terrifying reign.

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>>16558600

“Uganda | Idi Amin | Asian Expulsion | 1972” - https://youtu.be/p-i0JVip9N4

“Why Idi Amin Dada, ‘The Butcher Of Uganda,’ Should Be Remembered With History’s Worst Despots” – Part 2

https://allthatsinteresting.com/idi-amin-dada

July 23, 2019

Idi Amin: Man Of The People?

Ugandans were generally enthusiastic about Amin taking control. To them, the new president wasn't merely a military leader, but a charismatic man of the people. People danced in the streets.

Even Amin's multiple marriages helped — his spouses were of various Ugandan ethnic groups. In addition to his six wives, it is alleged that he had a minimum of 30 mistresses around the country.

Idi Amin's Brutal Reign

In the shadows, Idi Amin Dada was busy creating his own "killer squads," tasked with killing soldiers suspected of being loyal to Obote. These squads brutally murdered a total of 5,000-6,000 soldiers from the Acholi, Langi, and other tribes, right in their barracks. These tribes were thought to be loyal to the ousted president, Milton Obote.

To some, it quickly became apparent that Amin's man-of-the-people persona was no more than a front to hide his true inclinations. He was ruthless, vindictive, and used his military clout to further his goals.

His inability to deal with political matters in a civil manner was further highlighted in 1972, when he asked Israel for money and arms to help fight Tanzania. When Israel refused his request, he turned to Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, who promised to give him what he wanted.

Amin then ordered the expulsion of 500 Israelis and 50,000 South Asians with British citizenship. As Israel had undertaken several large building projects, and Uganda's Asian population consisted of many successful plantation and business owners, the expulsions led to a dramatic economic downturn in Uganda.

A Brutal Military Dictatorship

By the mid-1970s, the Ugandan dictator grew increasingly erratic, repressive, and corrupt. He routinely changed his personnel, altered travel schedules and modes of transportation, and slept in different places whenever he could.

Meanwhile, to keep his troops loyal, Amin showered them with expensive electronics, whiskey, promotions, and fast cars. He also handed over businesses previously owned by Uganda's Asian population to his supporters.

More importantly, Amin continued to oversee the murder of an increasing number of his countrymen. Tens of thousands of Ugandans continued to be violently killed on ethnic, political, and financial grounds.

His methods of murder became increasingly sadistic. Rumors spread that he kept human heads in his refrigerator. He reportedly ordered 4,000 disabled people to be thrown into the Nile to be torn apart by crocodiles. And he confessed to cannibalism on several occasions: "I have eaten human meat," he said in 1976. "It is very salty, even more salty than leopard meat."

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>>16558600

>>16558641

“Why Idi Amin Dada, ‘The Butcher Of Uganda,’ Should Be Remembered With History’s Worst Despots” – Part 3

https://allthatsinteresting.com/idi-amin-dada

July 23, 2019

By this point, Amin was using the majority of national funds for the armed forces and his own personal expenses — a classic tenet of 20th century military dictatorships.

Some attributed Amin's cruelty to dizzying effects of absolute power. Others believed his reign coincided with late-stage syphilis. In his early military days, he was charged with failing to treat an STD, and in the mid-1970s an Israeli doctor who had served in Uganda told a Tel Aviv newspaper, "It's no secret that Amin is suffering from the advanced stages of syphilis, which has caused brain damage."

Despite his brutal rule, the Organization of African Unity elected Amin chairman in 1975. His senior officers promoted him to field marshal, and in 1977 African nations blocked a UN resolution that would have held him accountable for human rights violations.

Amin's Circle Of Supporters Grows Thin

By the late 1970s, Amin ramped up his destructive methods even further. In 1977, he ordered the killings of notable Ugandans such as Archbishop Janani Luwum and Interior Minister Charles Oboth Ofumbi.

Then, when the British severed all diplomatic ties with Uganda in the aftermath of the Entebbe incident, Amin proclaimed himself the "Conqueror of the British Empire."

The ridiculous title was just one more addition to the dictator's god-like description of himself:

"His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of all the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular."

But his title couldn't save him from a deteriorating economy: Prices for coffee, Uganda's main export, plummeted in the 1970s. In 1978, the U.S. — which accounted for one-third of Uganda's coffee exports — stopped trading with Uganda altogether.

With a deteriorating economy and popular opposition to his rule, Amin's hold on power was growing increasingly weak. By this point, many Ugandans had fled to the U.K. and other African countries, while many of his troops had mutinied and fled to Tanzania.

Desperate to stay in power, Amin used the last option he had. In October 1978, he ordered the invasion of Tanzania, claiming they had instigated unrest in Uganda.

In an unexpected turn of events for the despot, Tanzanian forces not only fought off the attack but invaded Uganda. On April 11, 1979, Tanzanian and exiled Ugandan soldiers captured Uganda's capital, Kampala, overthrowing Amin's regime.

Life In Exile

Given his connections with Qaddafi, Amin at first fled to Libya, taking his four wives and more than 30 children along with him. Eventually, they moved to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He remained there until 1989 when he used a fake passport to fly to Kinshasa (a city in what was then Zaire and now is the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

In the end, the brutal dictator brought economic ruin, social unrest, and oversaw the murders of up to half a million people. There's no denying that his nickname "The Butcher of Uganda" was well-earned.

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>“Idi Amin gives away his plans to invade Israel.” - https://youtu.be/phPMSCcpb40

“Idi Amin’s Israeli Connection” Part 1

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/idi-amins-israeli-connection

June 27, 2016

On June 27, 1976, an Air France jet carrying around two hundred and forty passengers, twelve crew members, and four hijackers took off from Athens Airport. Before it could reach its destination, in Paris, it suddenly veered south to Libya, where it refuelled and then headed toward the equator, finally landing in Entebbe, in the East African nation of Uganda.

One issue that probably won’t be discussed during Netanyahu’s visit is why the hijackers chose Entebbe. The short answer is that Idi Amin, Uganda’s erratic dictator at the time, was a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause and a professed enemy of Israel. But there is a longer answer: Israel itself helped install Amin in power, creating a monster who turned on his former patrons.

Israel had had a special relationship with Uganda since the latter's independence from Great Britain, in 1962. Beginning in the nineteen-fifties, David Ben-Gurion, then Israel’s Prime Minister, sought strategic partnerships with states on the edge the Arab world, including Uganda, Kenya, Iran, and Turkey, to counter the hostile nations on Israel’s own borders. As part of what became known as the Peripheral Doctrine, Israel trained and equipped Uganda’s military and carried out construction, agriculture, and other development projects.

Just months after the Six-Day War, in 1967, Israel sold Uganda weapons worth seven million dollars. In 1969, Israel began funnelling weapons through Uganda into southern Sudan, where a ragtag rebel group known as the Anyanya had been fighting the Arab-dominated Sudanese government since the nineteen-fifties. Israel’s purpose was to distract the Sudanese Army so that it would not join forces with Egypt, which was mobilizing to retaliate for the capture of the Sinai Peninsula.

Uganda’s President at the time, Milton Obote, was a Pan-Africanist who envisioned a united Africa that would challenge the legacy of division and colonialism. Like most African leaders, he condemned Israeli "aggression" against Egypt and wanted to cut off support to the Anyanyas. But Amin, the Ugandan Army’s commander at the time, was a great admirer of Israel. He had briefly enrolled in a paratrooper course there (uncompleted), and was friendly with Colonel Baruch Bar-Lev, Israel’s military attaché in Uganda; Amin’s numerous wives and children even socialized with Bar-Lev’s wife and children. Amin came from an area near the Sudanese border, so was well placed to insure that Israeli arms continued to flow to the Anyanya, against Obote’s wishes.

Obote’s Presidency had been fraught with tribal conflict. Increasingly unpopular at home, he announced a turn to the left at a political rally on December 18, 1969. His government would “fight relentlessly” against “ignorance, disease, colonialism, neo-colonialism, imperialism, and apartheid,” he declared. Private companies and freehold land would be nationalized. As Obote was leaving the stadium that evening, he was shot through the cheek by an unknown gunman. He survived, but was now aware that vultures hovered over his Presidency.

Obote soon began to suspect that Amin might be one of those vultures. During a trip to Cairo, according to the Israeli military historian Yehuda Ofer, Amin called Bar-Lev because he was worried that, when he returned, he would be arrested for the murder of an Obote ally. Bar-Lev was eager to help Amin, who was serving Israel’s interests in Sudan, and he advised the Ugandan commander to form a battalion within the Army to protect himself. The Israelis would train it. This unit, consisting of paratroopers, tanks, and armed jeeps, proved instrumental a few months later when, in January, 1971, Amin overthrew the regime while Obote was in Singapore for a meeting of the British Commonwealth.

The coup had taken Britain’s High Commissioner to Uganda, Richard Slater, by surprise, so the next morning he paid a visit to Colonel Bar-Lev, who happened to be sitting with Amin. Bar-Lev informed Slater that Amin had control of the entire Army. Officers sympathetic to Obote were out of action—some were dead, others had fled their barracks. The bullet-ridden cars of Cabinet ministers now stood abandoned on Kampala’s streets. The Israelis would continue to provide advice for weeks afterward, while the last traces of resistance to the coup were eliminated.

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“Idi Amin’s Israeli Connection” Part 2 – Clinton administration

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/idi-amins-israeli-connection

June 27, 2016

Arye Oded, who was in charge of Ugandan affairs in Israel’s Foreign Ministry at the time, denies that Bar-Lev had anything to do with Amin’s coup, but Bar-Lev himself told the Times, Slater, and the historian Ofer otherwise. Amin’s first diplomatic visit was to Israel, followed by Britain, where he dined with Queen Elizabeth. But relations with both countries soon soured, especially after Israel refused to sell Amin fighter planes with which he hoped to bomb Tanzania, where Obote was then raising a rebel army.

Amin turned to Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi, who agreed to sell jets to the Ugandan, but only if the latter would break off ties with Israel. Amin promptly expelled all Israelis from the country, installed the Palestine Liberation Organization in the former Israeli Embassy, and commenced construction of a giant mosque in downtown Kampala. He then telephoned his foreign minister, an elegant barrister, fashion model, and tribal princess named Elizabeth Bagaya, and asked her to draft a cable to Prime Minister Golda Meir that read, “Pick up your knickers and go back to America where you came from!”

“I’m sorry, sir,” Bagaya replied, “but you’re a head of state, and as such you cannot use such language.” Amin hung up on her, but the cable was never sent. Amin’s anger at the Israelis for denying him fighter jets could explain his sudden sympathy for the Arab cause and his willingness to allow the Air France hijackers to conduct hostage negotiations from Entebbe in 1976.

As is well known, Amin went on to brutalize his own people, hundreds of thousands of whom are said to have died in his paranoid purges. Amin was overthrown in 1979. Obote then returned, won a disputed election, and ruled until 1985, when he was toppled by one of his generals, who was in turn toppled the following year by Yoweri Museveni, who remains in power thirty years later.

Early in Museveni’s tenure, Uganda once again became a pawn in the seemingly endless undeclared war between the Arab world and the West. In 1994, the Clinton Administration began funding Uganda and other countries to destabilize the government of Sudan’s Omar Hassan al-Bashir, whom it held partly responsible for the bombing of the World Trade Center, in 1993. Ugandan troops have also been deployed, at the West’s beckoning, in Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. In return, the U.S. plows roughly seven hundred and fifty million dollars annually in developmental aid into Uganda, including a hundred and seventy million dollars in military aid. Meanwhile, the Ugandan leader has for years received a free pass when it comes to human-rights abuses. These include allegations of election rigging, torture, and the killing of opposition supporters. During the war in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, Museveni’s army backed warlords responsible for crimes against humanity; during the war in northern Uganda against Joseph Kony’s notorious Lord’s Resistance Army, Museveni repeatedly sabotaged negotiations that might have spared his people a decade of war.

These abuses have met with only mild criticism from Western countries. Unlike Amin, Museveni knows better than to betray his patrons, and he remains a strong ally of the West and Israel. Although the Israelis have not had an Embassy in Uganda since Amin threw them out, in 1972, Museveni, his wife, and senior Ugandan politicians visit Israel frequently; Uganda usually votes with Israel at the United Nations, and Ugandan military officers receive training from Israelis. Israel also sells weapons to Uganda, and Netanyahu has visited at least once before, although not as Prime Minister. Recently, Israel began exporting its Eritrean and Sudanese refugees to Uganda under a “third country” arrangement. According to the BBC, this secretive program is rife with human-rights abuses; many of the Ugandan arrivals receive no assistance at all, and aren’t even registered with the U.N. Refugee Agency. It’s likely that the refugees, and more weapons sales, will be on the agenda when Netanyahu and Museveni meet. This visit will only further legitimize Museveni’s brutal regime, and continues a distressing tradition among Western leaders of mistaking abuse and repression for security.

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>>16558641

>“Uganda | Idi Amin | Asian Expulsion | 1972” - https://youtu.be/p-i0JVip9N4

>>16558764

>These abuses have met with only mild criticism from Western countries. Unlike Amin, Museveni knows better than to betray his patrons,

It has gotten worse for minorities in South Africa.

“Anti-White and anti-Indian bigotry in South Africa: The racism that does not attract the world’s condemnation” – Part 1

https://www.opindia.com/2021/07/anti-white-indian-bigotry-south-africa-racism-african-national-congress-economic-freedom-fighters-eff/

15 July 2021

Below are excerpts

With South Africa experiencing the worst violence in decades, Indians living in South Africa, too, have been at the receiving end of this unbridled bigotry. Consequently, Indians are facing racist abuse on social media platforms and the platforms are being used to further incite violence against Indians living in South Africa.

Indians are being accused of racism in order to rationalise racist attacks against them. Social media websites are awash with posts egging on rioters and vandals to specifically locate Indians and target their properties and possessions.

Ex-President Jacob Zuma’s association with the Gupta brothers and their role in the corruption cases is being used as an excuse to target many Indian businesses and Indian communities living in Durban and Johannesburg, as per some reports. One such Twitter handle, instigating riots against Indians, wrote, “Let us not forget that Jacob Zuma sold our country to Indian monopoly capital (IMC).” The Twitter handle had shared an image of the tainted Gupta brothers.

As violence, looting and ransacking escalates, the Indian community residing in the country are forced to arm themselves with guns and artillery to ward off rioters and secure the safety of their people and belongings.

However, many have accused the South African President of not doing enough to stop the violence. The recent spate of anti-white and anti-Indian attacks during the ongoing violence, experts claim, is the result of the racist legacy of President Ramaphosa.

More than 26 years since the end of apartheid, once South Africa’s system of legal segregation, the country continues to remain marred with the scourge of racism. The oppressor and the oppressed simply appear to have swapped places. The simmering racial tensions flared up yet again after the South African government floated a controversial proposal to seize land from white farmers without paying for it.

However, this opposition to the expropriation plan proved costly for white farmers, many of whom were murdered in targeted killings, presumably because they had opposed the African National Congress’s party redistribution plan. However, barring a few journalists and international speakers, who described the killings as “farm murders” representing the beginning of a “white genocide” aimed at driving whites out of the country, others simply glossed over the violence and injustice unfolding in South Africa.

It is alleged that corruption is a hallmark of the African National Congress. Zuma was forced to resign in 2018 because of the mounting corruption charges against him. He was replaced by President Ramaphosa but critics claim his cabinet eclipses every previous era of corruption by a wave of looting so enormous that it overshadows even the most conservative estimates.

Additionally, the ANC has always held a dim view of the rights of the minorities in South Africa. As violence, riots, and looting has become the order of the day, South African president Ramaphosa is resolutely moving towards tightening screws on firearms control—making stringent rules for gun owners—effectively weakening the right to bear arms in self-defence. The stricter restrictions for gun owners is expected to disproportionately affect the country’s white population since they are the victims of the violence that has ensued following the contentious redistribution proposal.

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“Anti-White and anti-Indian bigotry in South Africa: The racism that does not attract the world’s condemnation” – Part 2

https://www.opindia.com/2021/07/anti-white-indian-bigotry-south-africa-racism-african-national-congress-economic-freedom-fighters-eff/

15 July 2021

President Ramaphosa has been routinely lambasting colonialism and imperialism on the African continent to strike a chord with his followers and garner their support. Ramaphosa, who took over as the new chairperson of the African Union in February 2020, used his acceptance speech to rail against imperialism and colonialism in Africa. This was in stark contrast with his remarks in 2018 when he hailed China’s investment in the continent. Even though Beijing is notorious for leveraging its financial clout to turn other countries into vassal states, Ramaphosa had no qualms consorting with the Chinese, stating that the deal was not a “new colonialism” but a win-win situation for both Africa and China.

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a key opposition party in South Africa and the offshoot of the ANC, has similarly been accused of perpetuating racial inequities and creating fissures within the society. In 2018, when President Ramaphosa proposed the expropriation of farmlands from white farmers, the national spokesman of EFF had backed the proposal, saying redistributing land from white farmers without compensation is justified because “it is not really their land”.

Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, one of the senior party members of the EFF, said in an interview that white farmers descended from Dutch and English colonial invaders and had taken the land through “violent crime against humanity”.

It is worth mentioning that in 2011, Malema was found guilty of hate speech for singing “Shoot the Boer”, an apartheid-era song calling for the killing of white farmers. In his defence, Mr Malema and other ANC leaders defended themselves saying the song was the celebration of the fight against minority rule. However, the court made withering observations, noting that the words of the song were derogatory and dehumanising in nature.

Vusi Khoza, the party’s candidate for Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, the province which in the grip of violence, has been convicted of being involved in the xenophobic attack against foreigners at Albert Park, Durban in December 2009.

In 2016, in the midst of ongoing violent university protests that saw incidents of arson and vandalism, EFF Youth leader Omphile Seleke shared instructions for making petrol bombs on social media websites.

EFF and its leadership have revelled in their anarchic and violent tendencies. In January 2018, EFF Deputy President Floyd Shivambu congratulated the party supporters for causing vandalism to various H&M stores across the country because its poster showed a young black child wearing a green hoodie reading, “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle”.

Then in February 2019, EFF MP Marshall Dlamini launched a physical assault against a member of the presidential security team over a disagreement between EFF MPs and the security.

The present bout of unrest may have roots in the widespread racism and violence that have long been normalised and rationalised by lawmakers in South Africa. Unfortunately, it has failed to attract the kind of attention the racial reckoning in the United States or the xenophobic attacks in Europe does. The international liberal media and the western countries continue to remain mute spectators to the unabated racism experienced in South Africa and other African nations.

Violence, prejudice and oppression directed at anyone, be it black, white, Asian, Indian, American, or others, is indubitably condemnable and racist if it is motivated by racial prejudice. The definition of racism is not dependent on the identity of the perpetrators and the victims. It is abominable regardless of who commits it and who is at the receiving end. It is time that the world acknowledges the anti-white and anti-India bigotry witnessed in South Africa.