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(NEWZIMBABWE) Mugabe: AU a toothless bulldog

Mugabe: AU a toothless bulldog
31/01/2012 00:00:00
by Staff Reporter

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has blasted the African Union as a “toothless bulldog” for failing to stop the NATO-led campaign which led to the fall of Libyan strongman, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi. Addressing the AU summit in Addis Ababa, Mugabe said: "We should have said no, no to NATO.

“We fought imperialism and colonialism and forced them out of Africa . . . Our founding fathers did not have the means, but they stood up and said ‘no' but here we are absolutely silent.”

Last year NATO launched a bombing campaign to back Libyan rebels in a nine-month uprising which led to the fall of Gadaffi who was later killed after being captured while trying to escape.

Mugabe said the AU should have stood up to the West and opposed the bombing campaign adding the continental body was also wrong to recognise the NTC without investigating Gadaffi’s murder.

"Gadaffi was killed in broad daylight, his children hunted like animals and then we rush to recognise the NTC," he said.
"Well, well that was Libya. Who will be next? Let us take care, all of us. It has not just happened to Gadaffi.”

Mugabe said the West had now realised that "we are toothless bulldogs" and warned that Africa faced a new wave of colonialism as the West battles a deepening economic crisis.

"They have an economic crisis in Europe, they have exhausted their resources,” he said.

"Africa still has plenty of them. We are discovering more oil, more minerals, gold more diamonds.

“We still have our natural resources, natural gas, so another recolonisation might take place.”

"I saw a picture yesterday of Gadaffi shaking hands with Sarkozy in France after they invited him there, but those hands that Gadaffi was shaking were the hands that were going to kill him a few months later.

"How far then do we go in associating with such people?”

Labels: AU, LIBYA, MUAMMAR AL-GADDAFI, NATO, ROBERT MUGABE, SARKOZY

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