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UK riots: dictatorships around the world use unrest to their advantage
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Gaddafi official calls for Cameron to leave after 'uprising' as Syria and Zimbabwe dub UK foreign policy hypocritical


James Meikle guardian.co.uk, Thursday 11 August 2011 11.27

The Syrian ambassador to the UN has accused the UK of hypocrisy by using the word 'gangs' during the riots, but condemning the term in Syria. Photograph: AP
Some of the world's most notorious dictatorships have been quick to turn the smash-and-grab turmoil in England's cities to their own political advantage.

In Libya, Muammar Gaddafi's deputy foreign minister Khaled Kaaim said: "Cameron and his government must leave after the popular uprising against them and the violent repression of peaceful demonstrations by police.

"Cameron and his government have lost all legitimacy. These demonstrations show that the British people reject this government, which is trying to impose itself through force."

And Libyan state television said Cameron was using "Irish and Scottish mercenaries" to tame riots in England.

"The rebels of Britain approach Liverpool in hit-and-run battles with Cameron's brigades and mercenaries from Ireland and Scotland. God is Greatest," said a breaking news caption on its morning program.

Syria suggested David Cameron's problems in recent days had been nothing compared to what had faced the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. "It's very informative to hear the prime minister of England describing the riots and the rioters in England by using the term gangs," its ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Ja'afari told reporters. "They don't allow us to use the same term for the armed groups and the terrorist groups in my country. This is hypocrisy. This is arrogance.

"London, Birmingham, Bristol is only 1% of what happened in some restive areas of my country."

Britain's deputy ambassador Philip Parham's response to the "absurd comparison" was withering. While his government was handling the riots with "measured, proportionate, legal, transparent steps to restore the rule of law", in Syria, "you have a situation where thousands of unarmed civilians are being attacked and killed … Some 2,000 civilians have now been killed, the vast majority of them unarmed."

And hot on the heels of Iran's request for the United Nations security council to investigate the "violent suppression" of those angry at cuts, Zimbabawe's president Robert Mugabe weighed in, saying Britain should sort out its own problems rather than interfering in other countries.

"Let them attend to their problems now that they are experiencing problems, which have dogged other countries before and they have in those circumstances accused those countries of lacking freedom.

"Let them tell us what is happening whether there is lack of freedom or it's something else. Britain now is on fire, London especially and we hope that they will extinguish their fire. They should pay attention to their internal problems and to that fire, which is blazing all over and leave us alone because we do not have any fire here. We don't want them to continue creating unnecessary problems in our country. We want peace … the people of Zimbabwe want peace ."

Meanwhile, in Malaysia, home of student Ashraf Haziq, victim of one of the most shocking attacks during the London unrest, a police chief has used the experience of British police officers in recent days recent days to justify crackdowns on street protest. Deputy national police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said the rioting and looting were "nightmares that we are fighting hard to avoid and prevent".

Protests "should always be avoided as we will never know what it can turn into," Khalid said in a statement on Wednesday. "Praise to God, we are able to avoid these scary and tragic scenes from erupting here in our beloved country."



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