SPEAKING at a recently-concluded pro-democracy forum held in Beijing, China, Zambian opposition leader, Fred Mmembe, aptly pointed out how it is hypocritical for the United States (US) to be leading the so-called Global Democracy Summit.To add to the double standards that America has displayed over the years, purporting to be the champions of democracy and human rights globally on one hand and perpetrating injustices on the other, it is ironic that some countries that are victims of the imperialism by the US and its allies have fallen victim to this deceit and are now cronies of successive American governments.Mmembe’s country is among these nations, hence it has come under criticism for its co-hosting of the conference with US and Costa Rica, Netherlands and Republic of Korea.The summit, and for Zambia to be a part of it, is a slap in the face for the country and the continent that suffered, and continues contending with, human […]
‘Democracy’ summit a US hypocritical stunt, Zambia sucked in
