Ugandans, why are you not rising up now against dictator Musevenic?
It's your turn, the Georgians did it!!!!
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>Subject: ugnet_: Apt lesson for our tyrants
>Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:14:18 +0000 (GMT)
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>Editorial
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>Wednesday, November 26, 2003
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>Apt lesson for our tyrantsWhen he was President Mikhail
Gorbachev's Foreign Minister - just before the Soviet Union broke up into
tens of independent republics - Eduard Shevardnadze was among the world's
most respected statesmen.
>But, apparently, power corrupts. During the 12 years that he
has served as president of Georgia, he has come to epitomise political
corruption and misrule.
>History will not condemn him as harshly as it has done his
fellow Georgian, Josef Djugashvilli Stalin, under whose tyranny millions of
dissidents were murdered.
>Mr Shevardnadze is accused merely of massive rigging of the
presidential election machine so as to perpetuate himself in power over
deepening corruption and a slumping economy.
>This would, nevertheless, have been a mortal sin if committed
by the very man whose vow has always been complete de-Stalinisation and
thorough political and economic liberalisation of the Georgian Republic.
>He precipitated the crisis, not only by the rigging but, more
immediately, by denying it, refusing to order an investigation and - in a
manner uncharacteristic of the self-effacing Shevardnadze the world used to
know - thumping his chest with the declaration that he would never step
down.
>It was only after it became apparent that many of his
security forces were moving over to the opposition that he saw the need to
quit. This was, indeed, the saving grace, a reminder of the old
Shevadrnadze.
>Mr Shevardnadze admitted that, after this security split, any
attempt to assume military power would have resulted in a bloodbath. Many a
tyrant would have ignored this terrible possibility, dug in his heel, and
landed his country in a holocaust.
>He nearly did it. And it is an excellent lesson to Africa's
many tyrants who choose to continue with the bootblack long after their
power base has been destroyed beyond repair.
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