The Forgotten People
Mar 18th 2007CarlAfrica & Human Rights & Political
The last days we have been able to read in the press about human rights abuses in Zimbabwe. Probably the pictures of beaten politicians woke up the interest of the Western World media (one beaten politician CNN and anotherBBC). One of the pictures shows the opposition leader with his head inflated as a result of the beating.
It’s good that the media speaks about human rights abuses in Africa. Africa is the continent with enormously human right abuses, yet Africa is pretty much the forgotten continent. Africa is rarely in the news in Europe or the America. Politicians pay much more attention to other parts of the world as Africa. When a war begins in Africa it is barely noticed in the rest of the world.
It wouldn’t be a bad thing if Africa was more often in the spotlight in European and American media and people’s attention. So little about Africa is actually known in the rest of the world.
It’s time for the leaders committing human rights abuses in Africa to start respecting more basical rights. It’s time for Mugabe’s regim to stop using torture. The West could be much more active in putting pressure for human rights in Africa.