3 Political Players from Global South: "Saints" or "Sinners"?
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from time to time, we, in the western liberal democracies, mostly with the best of intentions, from our ivory towers, pick sides rather easily when it comes to politics of Global South, without fully understanding the complexities.
Don’t believe me? Think about the co-operation that took place between former dictator of Pakistan, Musharraf and the west in early to mid 2000s, he wasn’t democratically elected, in fact he had ousted a democratically elected Prime Minister of his country in a coup de tat, and the west pretty much rolled out red carpets to him while he gave himself the title of “President”, think about how current dictator of Egypt, Sisi, who ousted a democratically elected politician, Morsi, now gets to shake hands with world leaders, clearly in both of these instances the liberal democracies chose to do business with dictators at the expense of our core values.
Therefore, in this blog, I am writing about the supposed political activists or leaders from the Global South that the west is currently siding with and why I think siding with these supposed activists or leaders might be a mistake.
Alexei Navalny:
Alexei Navalny, currently being hailed as a hero in the west, rose to prominence in Russia by his supposed expose of corruption in Kremlin. Although he ran for the office of mayor in Moscow, he lost. A lot of people in the west do not know that Navalny has never held a public office in Russia, in fact he started in politics as a member of Russian liberal party, Yabloko, only to be expelled from the party for his “nationalist activities”.
Aung San Suu Kyi:
Prior to the events of 2017 in Myanmar, where its military according to credible international organisations allegedly committed a genocide, Aung San Suu Kyi was hailed as a hero across the globe, because she supposedly stood for Democracy and was even awarded Nobel Peace Prize amongst many other accolades. However, since August 2017, she has not only failed to denounce the crimes committed against Rohingyas but also defended Myanmar’s military in International Court of Justice.
Juan Guaido:
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