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gees have been streaming out of
Uganda into neighboring Kenya
during the latest purge. Many of
them are of the educated profes–
sional class. Amín is now surround–
ing himself with uneducated, in
sorne cases totally illiterate, lieuten–
ants who present no threat to his
ironfisted rule.
Amín has made a shambles of
what once was one of east Africa's
most progressive countries. lts ma–
jor university, once the best in east
Africa, has lost 85 percent of its
staff. The once flourishing tourist
industry is dead.
Yet in spite of all this, Amín is still
firmly in power in Uganda, and pre–
cious few of black Africa's other
leaders have stopped their shrill de–
nunciations of the white minority
governments in the southern part of
Africa long enough to condemn
Amin's ruthlessly oppressive tac–
tics. The Organization for African
Unity (OAU) has condemned itself
by its own silence.
The exploitation of nation after
nation in Africa continues, from
Arabic countries in the north such
as Libya, under Muammar El Oad–
dafi 's military rule, where inter–
national terrorism is harbored and
financed, to Mozambique in the
south under Marxist dictatorship.
There are
MANY
"minority govern–
ments" holding sway over terror–
ized individuals who have been
denied their human rights!
Therefore, one comes away with
the suspicion that the term "minor–
ity government" is not the criterion
for unacceptability; it becomes un–
acceptable only when it is a "white
minority government."
When, in Mozambique, Marxist
dictator Samora Mache! took over
from the Portuguesa, he almost im–
mediately
confiscated
prívate
property , threw thousands of per–
sons into concentration camps, and
kept the firing squads busy as all
forms of real or suspected política!
opposition were systematically
el iminated.
This same Marxist dictator howls
with outrage against the white mi–
nority government in neighboring
Rhodesia, and shrieks of the depri-
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vation of human rights of black
Rhodesians, all the while fully
aware of the crowded concentra–
tion camps in his own country,
where under the brutality of total–
itarianism human rights have all but
been obliterated. This same dictator
is one who cheerfully supplies
Communist-made arms to black
guerrillas who prey upon fellow
black men, mostly hapless farmers
and villagers and their families, in
their frequent forays into Rhodesia.
To the north lies the tiny nation of
Burundi, which holds the record for
Africa's most horrendous ethnic
massacre. In 1972, the ruling
mi–
nority Tutsi tribe ruthlessly crushed
an uprising of the enslaved majority
Hutus, systematically murdering
about 200,000 of them! But the
world simply turned a bl ind eye.
" lt seems so strange," com–
mented a missionary in Burundi re–
cently. "Here you have a minority
killing something like 200,000 of
the people it holds in serfdom and
the world doesn 't protest, doesn't
really even care. Can you imagine
the outcry if the minority govern–
ments of Johannesburg or Salis–
bury had tried anything even
vaguely similar? Yet here there's a
"Solomon had an lvory lhrone-why
shouldn't
1?"
subtle feel ing that if blacks do
something to blacks, it's somehow
all right , and l'm afraid the feel ing
hasn 't really changed."
Today the Tutsi are still the undis–
puted masters; the Hutus are still as
oppressed as ever, living in con–
stant fear, working in the fields for
their Tutsi overlords, holding menial
jobs, and carrying cards identifying
their tribal origins. (Yet it is only the
" pass system" used in South Africa
that draws international tire.)
So from the tiresome and bloody
spectacle of the tribal wars of
Burundi, to the hideous civil war of
Nigeria where hundreds of thou–
sands of lbos lost their lives in a
futile attempt at independence, to
the recent rape of the nation of An–
gola, one can only shake one's
head in wonderment at the seeming
irony.
This is not to say there are not
abuses in Africa's remaining white
minority governments, or to deny
the United States still has a long
way to go before it solves all its own
human rights problems. But it nev–
ertheless remains true that the aver–
age black in both Rhodesia and
South Africa is infinitely, yes
IN–
FINITELY,
better off than his counter–
part (though of a different tribe, and
not really considerad a " counter–
part" in his own mind) in any num–
ber of other African nations.
The fact is, there is an inordinate
amount of irony, liberally sprinkled
with a tremendous dose of hypoc–
risy, as one witnesses the con–
certed effort of Western powers–
incongruously acting in concert
with Moscow- to obliterate one
form ot minority government
(white), while at the same time turn–
ing a deaf ear toward the pitiful
críes of the millions who are being
brutalized under literally dozens of
other forms ot minority govern–
ments, so long as they are non–
white.
o
Editor's Note: The artic/e en–
titled "Entering the Age of Ter–
ror," announced
by
Garner Ted
Armstrong on a recent series of
radio programs, wi/1 appear in
the next issue ofThe Plain Truth.
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