Opinion / Columnist
Unlamented dictator
04 Sep 2016 at 14:53hrs | Views
The news leaked out quickly despite the security clampdown. It always does. After all, it was not unexpected. The old tyrant had been felled by a stroke: probably dead, but anyway finished.
It had been a long time coming. No one was sure what would happen next. Who would take over? There were several obvious candidates but which one would move first?
Fresh in the memory was the sudden death of Malawi's President Mutharika in 2012. As the Vigil recorded at the time, his corpse was flown to South Africa, ostensibly for medical treatment but really just to buy time for his inner circle to work out what to do.
Well at last he is gone. The official announcement when it came was brief. President Karimov is dead, the only President Uzbekistan has had since independence.
The Uzbek government described him as a great statesman who had brought 'peace, stability, prosperity and progress'. Will we soon be hearing similar nonsense about Mugabe?
Source - ZimVigil
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