President Robert Mugabe says he fears sharing the fate of slain
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi or Saddam Hussein, the deposed Iraqi
president sentenced to death by hanging.
At a rally at Chibuku Stadium in Chitungwiza yesterday, the Zanu-PF
leader accused the United States and Britain of trying to topple his
regime, and said he was still in power because he has the support of the
people.
"Look at what the whites do to us in Africa; our friends like Gaddafi
were forgetting our solidarity and were assisting countries that were
in need, dining with people like (former British Prime Minister Tony)
Blair thinking that they were friends yet they were observing him,"
Mugabe - once a bosom buddy of the fallen Libyan tyrant said.
"When the day arrived, they wrongly accused him and destroyed him in broad daylight."
The 89-year-old strongman told his supporters the West hounded
Gaddafi and Hussein to death in pursuit of the oil-rich countries'
natural resources.
"They did the same with Saddam Hussein claiming that he had weapons
of mass destruction and they falsely accused him," Mugabe said.
"Look....all of them were killed and these nations are left in chaos
as people fight among each other. Beware that is what they are seeking
when you hear them speak of removing Mugabe because they say he is the
impediment to our goals."
Saddam, who ruled Iraq from 1967 to 2003, was hanged at dawn in
December 2006 for crimes against humanity, a dramatic, violent end for a
leader who ruled Iraq by fear for three decades before he was toppled
by a US invasion in 2003.
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