I wrote a blog earlier about the elephant eating (no pun, he actually feasted on an elephant on his 90th birthday), nonagenarian African dictator Robert Mugabe, who did everything to take his country Zimbabwe into an abyss of elephantine proportion. The country's economy is in shambles. It's said that you have to carry a sac of Zimbabwean Dollar to buy a bag of grocery in that nation.
Mugabe practiced what we can call is reverse racism, driving away the white minority, who were mostly farmers and formed the backbone of their economy and cricket. Imagine if he would have been White and drove away the black minority in that nation. Zimbabwe would faced severe sanctions, in the same boat as South Africa during the heydays of Apartheid, banned from all international sporting events.
In that context, the hypocrisy of the African Union and rest of the world about Mugabe can't be ignored. They're conspicuously silent when Mugabe practices reverse racism. India once backed Nelson Mandela, supporting him tooth and nail during the heydays of apartheid, eventually bestowing him with our highest Civilian Award BHATAT RATNA (The Jewel of India).
What was Mandela's reciprocity to India's magnanimous overture of giving its highest honor, rarely given to someone outside India - he wanted to mediate between India and Pakistan on Kashmir, knowing fully well India's sensitivity towards outside mediation in Kashmir. Go figure. It's one example (could be many more), those who help at their time of crisis leave no stones unturned when it comes to hurt us.
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