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South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has lain the blame for the current surge of refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea into Europe at the feet of the Europeans themselves
He says the migrant crisis was triggered by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) forces, attacking Libya after the Arab Spring, leading to the assassination of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
“…actions taken in the bombarding of Libya and killing of its leader that opened the floodgates … today those who were part of destabilizing that part of the world, they do not want to accept the refugees. It is their responsibility. They caused it, they must address it.” said Zuma.
“And today those who are part of destabilizing that part of the world they won’t want to accept the refugees. It’s their responsibility, they caused it, they must address it.”
Zuma did not, however, mention that South Africa voted in favour of Resolution 1973 which authorised military intervention in Libya.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it
cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less
formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the
traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers
rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government
itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents
familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he
appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He
rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to
undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that
it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero