Mugabe slams 'arrogant' critics
09/12/2007 16:16  - (SA)  

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Lisbon - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Sunday hit back at a group of four "arrogant" European countries for criticising his human rights record, saying democracy only came to Africa in the post-colonial era.

Mugabe said in a speech at the EU-Africa meeting: "It is important that people keep in mind that Africans fought for human rights from oppressive rule.

"There was no democracy in Zimbabwe for nearly a hundred years and we had to fight for one person, one vote."

Mugabe criticised the "arrogance from the EU side", saying a so-called gang of four - Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden - had no right to claim a better understanding of the situation in Zimbabwe than the African Union and the Southern African Development Community.

 

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