Re: Kim Jong-il: 'He was a lovely man'

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-̮̮̃-̃ ̾●̮̮̃̾•̃̾ ™Usenet Legends bobandcarole $$$ wrote:
> "He was not a dictator. He was a popular leader who was chosen by his
> people and regularly conducted elections."~~" Didymus Mutasa, the
> secretary of administration for Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF party.
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> ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!! They pile the shit DEEP in 3rd world African shit-
> holes. Kim Jong IL was a TURD and now they'll flush him. bottom line.
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> "Cuba declares three days of mourning for North Korean leader, while
> Nicaragua, Venezuela and President Mugabe loyalists express sorrow
> too"
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> Of course the pariah's and dregs of the world will line up to push the
> handle on the toilet... b&c
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> David Smith in Johannesburg
> guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 21 December 2011 09.52 EST
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> The wailing and gnashing of teeth inside North Korea was not entirely
> unexpected. That the death of Kim Jong-il has plunged other parts of
> the world into grief may come as more of a surprise.
>
> Communist ally Cuba has declared three days of mourning, with flags to
> be flown at half mast, while Nicaragua and Venezuela also expressed
> sorrow. The Korean Central News Agency's website carries messages of
> condolence from the emir of Qatar, the former president of Moldova and
> the "Great King and Great Queen of Cambodia".
>
> Not to be outdone in the contrarian stakes, Zimbabwe president Robert
> Mugabe's loyalists have paid tribute to North Korea's "dear leader",
> who died from a heart attack aged 69.
>
> "He was a lovely man whom we associated with," Didymus Mutasa, the
> secretary of administration for Mugabe's Zanu-PF party, told
> Zimbabwe's Voice of the People radio. "He was our great friend, and we
> are not ashamed of being associated with him."
>
> Challenging popular wisdom about Kim's 17-year iron rule, Mutasa
> continued: "He was not a dictator. He was a popular leader who was
> chosen by his people and regularly conducted elections."
>
> North Korea has a special notoriety in Zimbabwe's recent history.
> Under Kim's father, Kim Il-sung, it provided training to a military
> unit from the African country known as the Fifth Brigade, which went
> on to perpetrate the 1980s massacre of an estimated 20,000 civilians
> in the Matabeleland and Midlands provinces.
>
> Mutasa said: "We got a lot of help from him as his country trained our
> army and they also built our Heroes Acre [a monument for national
> heroes] that we are very proud of. It was a very good relationship
> that we shall always cherish. We worked together well."
>
> But victims of the massacre, known as the "Gukurahundi", took a
> different view. Methuseli Moyo, a spokesman for the Zimbabwe African
> Peoples Union (Zapu), whose supporters were targeted by the Fifth
> Brigade, told Zimbabwe's Daily News: "We have no doubt that people
> with the Fifth Brigade background are the ones who continue to torture
> and kill Zanu-PF's political opponents even to this day. As such, the
> Korean dynasty is responsible for Zanu-PF's militant and violent
> approach to politics."
>
> Moyo added: "The year 2011 is certainly a bad year for dictators. We
> pray that God also calls to heaven the few remaining ones."
>
> Mugabe condemned the overthrow of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi earlier this
> year, blaming western "imperialists".
>
> Defiant as ever, on Tuesday he was reportedly the only head of state
> to attend the inauguration of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's
> president Joseph Kabila, following a flawed election condemned by the
> US and others.