Mugabe among world's '10 worst dictators'

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By Staff Reporter

ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe has been named to a club of “the world’s 10 worst dictators” on a list prepared by a widely-circulated US magazine in consultation with human rights groups.

Mugabe, 81 on Monday next week, is in good company on the list. He comes 9th -- his notoriety only bettered by the likes of Sudan's Omar Bashmir, North Korea's Kim Jong II and Burma's Than Shwe among other rogues.

The list of the world's 10 worst living dictators was compiled by “dictator-watcher” Parade magazine's David Wallechinsky in collaboration with Amnesty International, Freedom House, Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders.

Mugabe’s regime is accused of killing over 20 000 minority Ndebeles in the south western parts of the country in the early 80s.

Lately, the United States and Britain have led calls for “regime change”, accusing the former Marxist guerilla leader of rigging elections, banning critical newspapers and jailing opposition leaders under trumped-up charges.

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently called Zimbabwe an "outpost of tyranny", alongside other possible targets of US military action including Iran and North Korea.

In response, Mugabe accuses the United States and Britain of bullying.

Mugabe has referred to Rice as "that girl born out of the slave ancestry, who should know from the history of slavery in America, from the president situation of blacks in America that the white man is not a friend".

"She says Zimbabwe is one of the five or six outposts of tyranny. Ah well, she has got to echo her master's voice. The white man is the slave master to her," blasted Mugabe.
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