Posted on March 16th, 2007 at 11:39 am by aaron
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Friday lambasted African silence about the brutal treatment of democracy activists in Zimbabwe.
“We Africans should hang our heads in shame,” said Tutu, who is widely regarded as South Africa’s moral conscience. “How can what is happening in Zimbabwe elicit hardly a word of concern let alone condemnation from us leaders of Africa?”
There has been increasing criticism of South Africa’s refusal to condemn the arrest and beatings of scores of opposition demonstrators, including the main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
