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ellisonz

(27,739 posts)
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 11:40 AM Feb 2012

Mugabe loyalists demand body of colonialist Cecil Rhodes be exhumed and sent back to Britain

SOURCE: Daily Mail (UK) (2-22-12)

ACTIVISTS loyal to Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe have visited the grave of colonialist Cecil Rhodes to demand permission to exhume his remains and return them to Britain.

A group of Zanu-PF supporters and veterans from the country's liberation war travelled to the remote site last week to express their anger at the continued presence of the Oxford-educated mining magnate's body in Zimbabwe.

The fresh call to exhume Rhodes' remains comes nearly 110 years after the colonial pioneer was laid to rest in 1902 in the Matopos hills outside the country's second city of Bulawayo.

At the time, the land lay inside Rhodesia, a British territory established in his own name by the millionaire businessman and politician.

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Mugabe loyalists demand body of colonialist Cecil Rhodes be exhumed and sent back to Britain (Original Post) ellisonz Feb 2012 OP
Hmm. I had no idea he was buried there n/t RZM Feb 2012 #1
I'm going to laugh so hard... ellisonz Feb 2012 #2
Yeah that's pretty unusual RZM Feb 2012 #3
ZANU-PF is pretty frickin' crazy. ellisonz Feb 2012 #4
 

RZM

(8,556 posts)
3. Yeah that's pretty unusual
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 02:35 PM
Feb 2012

Usually it's the other way around, with people in the home country requesting that the body be repatriated. It's pretty odd. I'd say 'don't they have better things to do' except everything Mugabe and co. touch seems to turn to shit so maybe not.

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