

Howsoever the world may rejoice (as the West would have us believe), I feel sad at the fall of Saddam Hussein, the pride of Arab heartland.

Without land rights the aborigines are now an almost extinct community. Howard and McKinnon still deny land rights to the indigenous communities in their countries. Mugabe is implementing land reforms in order to give the majority Zimbabweans land rights and redeem them from poverty. President Robert Mugabe, targeted by Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon (from New Zealand), is another nationalist hero who fought and won freedom for the Zimbabweans from an undemocratic White minority rule of Ian Smith. He was the founder of the modern Iraq despite the sanctions. Saddam Hussein, a national hero, was much demonised over non-existent weapons of mass destruction, Al Qaeda terrorism and human rights that most journalists would not dare to say anything positive about Saddam Hussein. We look up to your brand of journalism to counter a biased media serving the interests of the Anglo-Saxon colonialists. My anti-colonial feelings date back to the days of Mahatma Gandhi's freedom struggle. I congratulate you for your Cover Story ("Beyond Saddam Hussein", January 2, 2004).
