I actually watched this on tele and found it totally astonishing and therefore must let you know about it! See the video clip and article excerpt below.
"The Archbishop of York cut up his dog collar on live television yesterday in protest over Robert Mugabe's rule of Zimbabwe.
Dr John Sentamu said he would refuse to wear the Anglican symbol of office until Mugabe was no longer in power.
The Ugandan-born churchman will not replace his dog collar "even for the Queen", aides said.
His demonstration follows Mugabe's controversial presence at the EU summit with African leaders in Lisbon.
Gordon Brown boycotted the meeting rather than come face to face with the Zimbabwe president while German chancellor Angela Merkel has accused him of trampling on human rights.
Dr Sentamu is a long-standing critic of Mugabe.
Earlier this year he described him as "the worst kind of racist dictator" and called for him to be isolated with economic and sporting sanctions." [Read more...]
Another interesting article which is related to the one above is this one, where it is reported that Mugabe has told European leaders that he will not be lectured on how to rule Zimbabwe and "On human rights and good governance, Africa sets its own agenda, of its own free will,"" [Ref]
Sounds fair enough right? After all no one tells US or UK governments how to run their countries, right? But then what about the repots of .. "racist dictatorship" as mentioned by the Archbishop? Are such claims to be ignored? .. Up to last night I was watching Black Hawk Down (on Five movies!!) and well.. forgive me if this sounds distasteful but certain parts of Africa seem like very worrying places.. May God help us all.
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