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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: kumar who wrote (104159)7/6/2003 4:44:48 PM
From: NickSE  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Zimbabwe calls Powell 'Uncle Tom'
guardian.co.uk

Zimbabwe hurled racial epithets at the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, yesterday, including branding him an "Uncle Tom" after his attack on President Robert Mugabe in the New York Times last week.

...Mr Powell was described in the state-controlled Herald paper as "a disgraceful Uncle Tom who always sang his master's voice to the detriment of social justice and the rights of people of colour"...

US disgusted by racial slurs against Powell
iol.co.za

The United States expressed "profound disgust" at "personal attacks and racial slurs" made in Zimbabwe's state-owned media against the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, as he reiterated his call that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe "must go".

The attacks on Powell came in the wake of his dismissal of Mugabe as a tyrannical ruler...
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