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Related: About this forumMugabe 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.
More: http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/144741.html
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.
More: http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/144741.html
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Mugabe loyalists demand body of colonialist Cecil Rhodes be exhumed and sent back to Britain (Original Post)
ellisonz
Feb 2012
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RZM
(8,556 posts)1. Hmm. I had no idea he was buried there n/t
ellisonz
(27,739 posts)2. I'm going to laugh so hard...
...if they actually do dig him up and send him back.
RZM
(8,556 posts)3. Yeah that's pretty unusual
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.
ellisonz
(27,739 posts)4. ZANU-PF is pretty frickin' crazy.
Wouldn't want to end up on the wrong side of those guys.