Rwanda: Look Who the Country's Haters Have Recruited Now

5 November 2011
opinion

There is a fringe element of the global left who will work with anyone - including genocide deniers and perpetrators - if it means vilifying the US, the UK or "the West" in general. This is the crowd that loved Sadaam Hussien, Gadhaffi and Slobodan Milosevic. It is guys like John Minto in New Zealand who argued after 9/11 that the Taliban were misunderstood liberal democrats who were just trying to bring about a semblance of law and order in Afghanistan. These forces happily array against the small African country of Rwanda, whose leader Paul Kagame has become one of their targets-du-jour.

One of the leading Kagame-haters is Ann Garrison whose obsessive efforts to defame, diminish and defeat the Rwandan President has long since rendered her a muttering, sputtering fringe-dweller whose self-styled journalism attracts reactions ranging from head-shaking pity to "who on earth is this Ann Garrison woman, and remind me never to invite her to a dinner party."

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