Thread: "Violent Mugabe coup feared" (claim)
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Old 13-04-2008, 08:24 PM   #18 (permalink)
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The United Nations (UN) seems to be very quiet about his - or is it just that some of the media here just not reporting anything (about the UN response to Mugabe's failure to publish the results of the election he may well have lost heavily)?

I have read that communist China (in its search for various metals for industrial production) has been building up trading links with a number of African nations - particularly Zimbabwe. China, of course, has a veto on the United Nations Security Council which it could use to stop the UN criticising the tyrant Mugabe and his supporters.
Yes China has been proping up Mugabe for some considerable time, one unsavoury regime looking after another I feel.
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