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| UK strips Mugabe of honorary knighthood |
| 2008-06-26 |
| Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been stripped of his honorary British knighthood as a "mark of revulsion", the Foreign Office in London said on Wednesday. Queen Elizabeth II has approved the annulment of the honour, on the recommendation of Foreign Secretary David Miliband. "This action has been taken as a mark of revulsion at the abuse of human rights and abject disregard for the democratic process in Zimbabwe over which President Mugabe has presided," a Foreign Office spokesman said. Mugabe was awarded the honorary knighthood in 1994 by then prime minister John Major's government. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 All this silly symbolism isn't going to do anything. If UK isn't going to do something, then do nothing, but don't embarrass themselves with these stupid shows. The opposition leader in Zim has pulled out of the election runoff and ask for the UN to save them! Those people need to take their own destiny in their hands and not depend on the Brits or the UN. Until they use force to wrest power out of Mugabee's hands they will continue to be enslaved by him and his thugs. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-06-26 11:05 |
| #3 Mugabe was awarded the honorary knighthood in 1994 by then prime minister John Major's government. The Holy Grail, what it will it be without the Black Knight? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-06-26 10:13 |
| #2 Yes, why doesn't the feckless UN strip Zimbabwe of Mugabe? |
| Posted by: doc 2008-06-26 08:48 |
| #1 Even if its only symbolic, its more than the UN, and Human Rights peopel have done to the man that destroyed Rhodesia. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-06-26 00:52 |