From our This-is-no-Surprise Bureau:
If Cuba and China can be on the Human Rights Council of the U.N., why not name Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe to a top post?
Makes sense.
The man is a well-known monster and a close friend of the Castro dynasty.
The U.N. has once again proven to the world that it is a very bad and very expensive joke.
From Granma Lite (AP), via NBC
After widespread shock and condemnation, the head of the World Health Organization said Saturday he is “rethinking” his appointment of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe as a “goodwill ambassador.”
In a new tweet, WHO director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus said that “I’m listening. I hear your concerns. Rethinking the approach in light of WHO values. I will issue a statement as soon as possible.”
The 93-year-old Mugabe, the world’s oldest head of state, has long been criticized at home for going overseas for medical treatment as Zimbabwe’s once-prosperous economy falls apart. Mugabe also faces U.S. sanctions over his government’s human rights abuses.
The United States called the appointment of Mugabe by WHO’s first African leader “disappointing.”
“This appointment clearly contradicts the United Nations ideals of respect for human rights and human dignity,” the State Department said.
Health and human rights leaders chimed in. “The decision to appoint Robert Mugabe as a WHO goodwill ambassador is deeply disappointing and wrong,” said Dr. Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, a major British charitable foundation. “Robert Mugabe fails in every way to represent the values WHO should stand for.”
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So the WHO director-general is “rethinking the approach in light of WHO values.” Right. Because he couldn’t possibly have realized on his own that this was an unbelievably outrageous idea, although the fact he even contemplated the idea at all means he is outrageously unfit for his job. Beyond appalling, especially since this is not an isolated incident.
But if Mugabe was on good terms with Nosferatu, I mean Fidel, I suppose he couldn’t be that bad. After all, Fidel was on great terms with Saint Mandela, now wasn’t he?