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	Robert Mugabe - MSN Encarta
		Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born at the Jesuit mission of Kutama in northwest Mashonaland, in the north of the British colony of Southern Rhodesia.
		Mugabe was freed in 1974 and became active in the further development of ZANU’s guerrilla army.
		Mugabe, whose political support came overwhelmingly from his homeland of Mashonaland in the north, attempted to build Zimbabwe on a basis of reconciliation with whites and with his ZAPU rivals, whose support came from Matabeleland in the south.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567620/Robert_Mugabe.html (898 words)

	Robert Mugabe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Gabriel Mugabe, honorary KCB (born February 21, 1924) is a Zimbabwean politician.
		Mugabe was helped by an unprecedented turnout of 90% in his rural stronghold of Mashonaland (55% of the population voted overall), although there are credible claims that the turnout may have been rigged.
		Mugabe's office forbade the screening of the 2005 movie The Interpreter claiming that it was propaganda by the CIA and fearing that it could incite hostility towards him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Mugabe (3540 words)

	Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe - By David Plotz - Slate Magazine
		Mugabe, who liberated his nation from colonial oppression 20 years ago, is the father of his country.
		Mugabe, who had been the leader of the continent, was not even the biggest kid in the neighborhood.
		Mugabe is simply one of a number of Marxists who are still "doing their thing" to victims in countries all over the world--despite the reported death of communism.
	www.slate.com /id/81386 (1784 words)

	CNN.com - Protesters call for Mugabe arrest - Feb. 19, 2003
		Mugabe, who arrived in Paris on Wednesday, is banned from travelling to the EU but France was given an exemption after arguing that the two day meeting on February 20-21 will be a good platform to engage him on human rights concerns and the country's political crisis.
		Mugabe's ties with Washington and London deteriorated after he began allowing white farms to be seized and given to landless fls -- sparking an economic crisis blamed for putting half the country's 14 million people at risk of starvation.
		Mugabe says he is only trying to fix a historical injustice that put 70 percent of the best agricultural land in the hands of whites who make up less than one percent of the population.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/02/19/france.mugabe (787 words)

	Robert Mugabe: the teflon tyrant - Opinion - www.theage.com.au
		Robert Mugabe barged through a loophole in a European Union travel ban to fly to the Pope's funeral in Rome.
		This time, Mugabe's Zanu-PF came up with a new method of coercion beyond the usual beatings and harassment, denying food aid to entire villages with a history of supporting his opponents in the Movement for Democratic Change.
		The outside world may well be horrified by Mugabe's cruelty and injustice, and the debilitating impact of his corrupt and incompetent rule.
	www.theage.com.au /news/Opinion/Robert-Mugabe-the-teflon-tyrant/2005/04/08/1112815723573.html (719 words)

	Television Interview with Zimbabwean Prime Minister Robert Mugabe
		ROBERT MUGABE: We don't intend to go outside the criteria where established from the purpose of first identifying the land that we need for [unintelligible] and then designating that land.
		ROBERT MUGABE: A similar dimension is slavery here, but it's also colonialism and subjugation of a people; slavery of a whole continent, you know.
		ROBERT MUGABE: To all who say nonsensical talk about democracy, transparency, human rights, today is being raised now in order for the whites to point to our countries which are still [unintelligible] from their own systems of colonialism and have not got stabilized; pointing at them as offenders of these principles.
	afgen.com /mugabe_interview.html (4227 words)

	Who is Robert Mugabe?
		Robert Mugabe, President of the sub-Saharan African country of Zimbabwe, was initially hailed as the great liberator of the continent, eradicating colonial rule from then-Rhodesia while other African countries floundered under colonial oppression.
		Mugabe was born in Rhodesia, the predecessor in name to the country since rechristened as Zimbabwe, the son of a carpenter.
		Mugabe's Zanu-PF party was credited as having brought peace to the country and Mugabe was elected President by a landslide in 1980.
	va.essortment.com /robertmugabe_rtpn.htm (500 words)

	Robert Gabriel Mugabe Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Robert Gabriel Mugabe (born 1924) was in the forefront of the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) for nearly two decades.
		Robert Mugabe was born on February 21, 1924, at Kutama Mission in Zvimba, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) four months after it became a British Crown colony.
		Mugabe was the son of a peasant farmer and carpenter.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/robert-gabriel-mugabe (2036 words)

	TIME Pacific \| Robert Mugabe \| December 25, 2000 \| NO. 51
		President Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the last of the old African nationalists who rode to power on the colonial winds of change.
		Mugabe's land grab effectively crippled Zimbabwe's commercial agriculture industry, dominated by 4,500 mainly white farmers, which in the past made up some 20% of the country's gdp and 40% of its export earnings.
		But Robert Mugabe wants to go down in history as the man who gave African land back to Africans, even if it means the ruin of his country.
	www.time.com /time/pacific/magazine/20001225/poy_mugabe.html (503 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner News - EDITORIAL - Mugabe not welcome here - Tuesday \| December 19, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Mugabe and his party have continued the erosion of democracy through the rigging of elections and attacks on the free press, which has been subject to repressive laws and its members to intimidation, beatings and arbitrary arrest.
		Mugabe grabbed farms from white farmers in a crude land redistribution programme that led to a collapse of agriculture.
		Mugabe that his actions and general behaviour are unacceptable and that unless he mends his ways he cannot be a guest in our country.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20061219/cleisure/cleisure1.html (572 words)

	Robert Mugabe - Simple English Wikipedia
		Robert Gabriel Mugabe KCB (born February 21, 1924) has been the Socialist President of Zimbabwe since 1980.
		Mugabe has ruled his country in the style of a dictator.
		Mugabe dies, as there seems to be a vacuum.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Mugabe (240 words)

	Mugabe endorsed as 2008 presidential candidate - CNN.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Mugabe, 83, has accused the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) of mounting a "terrorist" campaign to remove him from office and defended violent police sweeps this month which saw dozens of MDC activists arrested.
		Mugabe was elected at the party's last congress in 2004 and has not faced an election since then.
		Mugabe said he had told SADC leaders that Tsvangirai deserved beating by police earlier this month in an incident which drew outrage, including from some Western countries which threatened stiffer action against the veteran leader.
	edition.cnn.com /2007/WORLD/africa/03/30/mugabe.reut/index.html (772 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Robert Mugabe: The survivor
		Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has once again confounded his many critics and shown himself to be a master of surviving the political jungle.
		Mr Mugabe may well believe it would be easier to rule a country of subservient subsistence farmers than a well educated, industrialised workforce.
		Mr Mugabe claims to be fighting on behalf of the rural poor but much of the land he confiscated, supposedly on their behalf, has ended up in the hands of his cronies.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/3017678.stm (1062 words)

	CNN.com - Mugabe defends razings, few strike - Jun 9, 2005
		Mugabe spoke at the official opening of a new parliament, which the main opposition boycotted as part of a two-day strike to protest the clearances which the United Nations says left 200,000 people homeless.
		Mugabe said the government would introduce mandatory penalties for illegal trade in foreign currency and precious metals, which authorities say have thrived in shantytowns.
		Mugabe said new bills to be tabled in parliament included amendments to mining laws to rationalize issuing of prospecting orders and to open up the foreign-dominated sector to locals.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/africa/06/09/zimbabwe.protests/index.html (694 words)

	Robert Mugabe, Schema-Root news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Robert Mugabe stole an election and during his reign, he has brought Zimbabwe — a once prosperous country — to its knees.
		Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is fighting for his political life in a behind-the-scenes power struggle within his own party, analysts said today.
		THE struggle of the Robert Mugabe regime's propaganda machine to shape and manage the news has escalated since the announcement of the clampdown on the...
	schema-root.org /region/africa/eastern_africa/zimbabwe/government/officials/robert_mugabe (1143 words)

	ASIL Insight: Alien Tort Claims Act re R. Mugabe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		According to news reports, Robert Mugabe, the head of state of Zimbabwe, was served with process while he was in New York City for the United Nations Millennium Summit, in a suit brought by Zimbabwean nationals seeking civil damages under the U.S. Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA).
		Mugabe could also argue that the alleged violence was not "official," since it was conducted by a political party or persons in the service of a political party, rather than by the government as such.
		Mugabe probably would be considered a representative of Zimbabwe to the U.N. during his brief visit to New York, but the legal process served on him did not relate to anything done by him in that capacity.
	www.asil.org /insights/insigh50.htm (1305 words)

	Is Robert Mugabe a dictator? \| World dispatch \| Guardian Unlimited
		Mr Mugabe's critics point out that Mrs Thatcher, whatever her authoritarian tendencies, did not repeatedly defy the courts, give blanket amnesty to people who murdered her political opponents, order the police not to enforce the law and use a private army of thugs against an array of targets.
		But it is Mr Mugabe's repeated defiance of the courts that has raised greatest concern because it opens the way to almost any abuse, including an attempt to cling to power beyond the 2002 presidential election that he is almost certain to lose.
		Mr Mugabe's actions have led to a widespread view at home and abroad that the Zimbabwean government no longer considers itself bound by the rule of law - that the president is, in effect, a dictator.
	www.guardian.co.uk /elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,410850,00.html (816 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe strongman
		When Robert Mugabe came to power in 1980 the talk was of peace and co-operation after decades of white colonial rule and a bitter civil war.
		Born in 1924, Robert Gabriel Mugabe was educated in missionary schools and received the first of his seven degrees from South Africa's Fort Hare University.
		Mr Mugabe has made much of his devout Christianity, but his marriage to a former private secretary in 1996 - 41 years his junior and with whom he already fathered two children - raised more than a few eyebrows.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/643737.stm (655 words)

	African American Registry: Robert Mugabe, typical politician?
		On returning to Southern Rhodesia, Mugabe was again arrested and spent most of the next decade in prison, earning bachelor degrees in law and administration while there.
		Mugabe's land grabbing crippled Zimbabwe's commercial agriculture industry, dominated by 4,500 mainly white farmers, which in the past made up some 20% of the country's gdp and 40% of its export earnings.
		Despite the setback, Mugabe continued his land-grab policy as a strategy to gain rural support for the 2002 presidential election.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/821/Robert_Mugabe_typical_politician (686 words)

	New bid to arrest Mugabe at Commonwealth summit
		Mugabe is the one who has to hide behind dozens of bodyguards because he fears being arrested and put on trial for human rights abuses.
		Mugabe has since publicly refused to condemn their torture, and has tacitly endorsed it, suggesting that the two men got what they deserved.
		As well as attacks on the lesbian and gay community, he is implicated in the massacre of up to 20,000 people in Matabeleland during the 1980s, restrictions on strikes and demonstrations, the intimidation of the press and judiciary, infringements of trade union rights, and police brutality against peaceful protesters.
	www.petertatchell.net /international/brisbane.htm (1185 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for mugabe
		Mugabe, Robert Gabriel (1925) Zimbabwean statesman, prime minister (1980– ;), president (1987– ;).
		Mugabe, Robert (Gabriel) (1924– ;) Zimbabwean statesman, Prime Minister (1980–87) and President since 1987.
		In 1976, Nkomo and Robert Mugabe formed the Patriotic Front in opposition to Ian Smith's white-minority government in Rhodesia.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=mugabe&Search.x=33&Search.y=10 (690 words)

	Robert Mugabe will be 78 in March 2002
		Mugabe is selfless man, a man of vision and a very proud man. The Battle of Land is an unfinished revolution started in mid 1970’s.
		Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on February 21, 1924 at Kutama Mission North-West of the capital Harare.
		Mugabe is widely credited with improving health and education for the fl majority.
	www.afroamerica.net /pages/2/RobertMugabe122001.html (758 words)

	Robert Gabriel Mugabe — FactMonster.com
		Reelected in 1990 and 1996, Mugabe was forced to abandon his commitment to a one-party Marxist state by 1991, but he nonetheless consolidated power, virtually eliminating opposition, and his regime became increasingly autocratic.
		Mugabe was an aggressive supporter of sanctions against South Africa and aided the African National Congress before the lifting of apartheid.
		By 2000 support for Mugabe had dropped dramatically in urban areas; a constitutional change to increase presidential power lost at the polls, and an opposition party later won nearly half the elected seats in parliament.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0834332.html (218 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Zimbabwe - Shadows and Lies . Recollections of Robert Mugabe . PBS
		Of all the depressing statistics about Mugabe's broken country, the one that gnaws at me the most is that life expectancy has declined in the last two decades from 62 years to a mere 38 years.
		Mugabe had formed a coalition "Patriotic Front" government with a rival guerrilla leader, Joshua Nkomo, but it soon fell apart when Mugabe accused Nkomo of plotting a coup against him.
		Mugabe's Marxism was an ideology that hardened during his 10-year prison term in Rhodesia and was influenced by his Maoist allies in China.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/stories/zimbabwe504/profile.html (3349 words)

	Crisis in Zimbabwe - The Delusions of Robert Mugabe
		Mugabe knew the veterans would be unable to take over where the original owners left off.
		Mugabe owes his power to the Shona tribe, and so-called "land reform" was a ploy to enrich his closest political allies.
		It is to be named the Robert Mugabe Memorial and it will chronicle the events of his life, from, rebel leader to life President.
	www.yoursdaily.com /different_views/crisis_in_zimbabwe_the_delusions_of_robert_mugabe (962 words)

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