Al Jazeera reports:
Burkina Faso’s military-led government has issued a decree dissolving all political parties that had already been forced to suspend activities after a coup four years ago.
This is justified on the grounds that multiple parties is bad for social cohesion. I’m sure Waititi would love to be able to do the same to parties he views as bad for social cohesion.
Human Rights Watch also touches on some other highlights from Waititi’s hero:
- In September, the junta passed a law making consensual same-sex relations a criminal offense punishable by two to five years in prison and fines.
- In July, the junta passed a law abolishing the Independent National Electoral Commission
- the Burkinabè military and VDPs have committed grave abuses, including the killing and unlawful forced displacement of civilians
- The junta has cracked down on political opposition, the media, and dissent, and used a sweeping emergency law to silence and unlawfully conscript critics, journalists, and civil society activists.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders
3 comments:
Black African dictators have always been the heroes of Maori radicals and the trendy left (and often the msm). When you're arguments don't stack up, you can't allow the public to decide things in a democracy. But However corrupt and brutal the Black African dictators have been, they have nothing on the brutality of Maori leaders before colonialism brought law and order here.
Waititi and his te partly maori cohorts are not fit to represent anyone….lucky they fail to turn up and do the one job they’re paid for
That's true anon@4.42, the pity is while they are not at work in the house they're out galavanting around burning through great wads of our money on unaudited expenses. Another sound reason for Maori seats to be gone.
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