Mobutu is a master of terror and of using it on a grand scale," said Peter Rosenblum, project director at the Harvard Human Rights Program and co-author of a book-length report on Zaire titled "Repression as Policy."
"I don't think anywhere else in Africa has there been a longstanding dictator so rapacious and so destructive," he said.
Other human rights experts say the world knows little about what Mobutu's agents were doing in the central African nation of 45 million people--where he never bothered to build good roads or a communications system.
"Quantitatively, I think Zaire has the worst human rights record in Africa," said a United Nations official in Kinshasa. "In terms of social and economic rights and the number of state actors violating those rights, it's massive. And the bulk of human rights violations in this country never will be known. It's a black hole."
But the critics say blame also must be placed at the door of Mobutu's Western backers, including U.S. officials, who turned a blind eye to his abuses after helping him gain power in a military coup in 1965. Even the Carter administration, which championed human rights as a foreign policy priority, gave Mobutu the bulk of America's African aid in the late 1970s.
When Bill Richardson, the U.S. delegate to the United Nations and President Clinton's special envoy, visited Zaire early this month to engineer Mobutu's resignation, the aging, cancer-ridden president asked him why, after years of loyal service and friendship with the West, he had been abandoned.
"I said the mess you are in is not our mess," Richardson said. "You just didn't govern your own country."
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Paul noted that US policy on Syria has become an "abysmal failure," and blamed squarely the Obama administration for it.
"So far in this war we have funneled weapons to terrorists, armed multiple sides and generally acted as if we don’t have a clue what to do in the region — and we’ve done it all unconstitutionally," Paul stated in an op-ed for the Fox News.
"The Obama administration drew red lines that made no sense," Paul claimed. "It armed opposition it did not know well or understand."
The senator underscored many existing conflicts of interest in Syria, including US ally Turkey attacking US-backed Syrian Kurds and CIA-supported Syrian opposition fighting with Defense Department-armed Turkish Kurds.
"When Congress comes back this fall, we should immediately take action to either authorize this war or to end it," Paul maintained.
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