Tuesday 25 September 2007

Didn’t they do well?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/this shithole makes "Black Hawk Down" look like "Operation Dumbo Drop"

Apparently Rwanda is the “most improved” country in sub Saharan Africa. Well, they couldn’t really have started much lower down the pack could they? 10 years ago they were embroiled in a hideous civil war and large scale genocide was the country’s most popular recreational pastime so I suppose the only way they could go was up really.

“Improved” can only really be a relative term in these situations-it glosses over a multitude of sins... It’s a bit like trying to make Somalia seem like a pleasant holiday destination by saying “Mogadishu is so quaint and charming” or that "The weather in Sierra Leone is nearly always lovely".

Anyway, happy ending-Rwanda is now a stable nation state governed by a psychotic military despot whose entire government is made up of members of his family, who cannibalises small children, bases all his decisions on signs he reads in the entrails of dead jackals and has over 14,000 wives (one of whom he sacrifices each day to some disgusting heathen god). Probably.

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