Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Anglican bishop attacks Mugabe


From Newsday-

The Archbishop of York has warned against easing sanctions against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
John Sentamu said in an article in The Times that he was “not convinced the time had come to weaken international opposition to the President of Zimbabwe’s irresponsible, undemocratic, lawless and at times brutal regime”.

It is five years since the Archbishop cut up his clerical collar during an interview on BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show.

He vowed at the time that he would not wear a clerical collar again until Mugabe ceased to be in power in Zimbabwe.

He wrote in The Times: “I made this prophetic statement as Robert Mugabe had slowly but surely cut up the identity of the Zimbabwean people into tiny pieces.

“It is fair to say that I did not expect still to be collarless five years on. I’m even asked occasionally why I have forgotten to wear one – but my answer remains that this corrupt and oppressive regime has simply been allowed to carry on for too long.”

More here-

http://www.newsday.co.zw/article/2012-08-14-anglican-bishop-attacks-mugabe/

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