The London times reports today that the Mugabe's have bought a place here for 4 Million pound through a shady shell company.
Pity they don't list the address, although they say their reporters were attacked when they went there. I would be all for making this scumbag's life hell here and forcing immigration to kick him out.
These are Xpats we don't need
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Ed
17 yrs ago
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article5734148.ece
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For those who would like to visit him next time he shows up here. His address is House Number Three, JC Castle, 18 Shan Tong Road, Tai Po
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the sale must have been given the green-light by the mainland. as china does so much trade with Zimbabwe, it must have been just one of the many sweeteners offered to the tyrant. the hksar puppet gov would have been powerless to do anything against china's wishes regardless of the objections felt.
i wonder how long it will take Ed to delete The CIA's post....thanks (if your source is good) at least i know which area the property is located now!
how very insulting for hong kong to have anything to do with this tyrant in this day and age.
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and i am surprised i didn't see this in the news!
Journalists attacked at Hong Kong 'home' of Mugabe
Posted: 15 February 2009 2209 hrs
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Robert Mugabe
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/409222/1/.html
HONG KONG : Two journalists were attacked as they investigated a report about Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe owning a luxury property in Hong Kong, a photographer said on Sunday.
Two men and a woman at the exclusive house attacked the journalists and seized a camera, Tim O'Rourke told AFP.
Britain's Sunday Times reported Mugabe and his wife Grace have secretly bought the 5.8-million-US-dollar property in the city's Tai Po district, which the report said was the first in Asia to be identified as the Mugabes'
They were questioned by a black man and woman, and when O'Rourke went to take photographs of the house, he was attacked.
"She started shouting 'He has got a camera. He is taking photos.'
"(She and another man) both grabbed me. They were trying to rip the camera out of my hand," O'Rourke said.
Another man appeared and O'Rourke was able to pass the camera to Galloway, who was then set upon and held in a headlock, before the attackers were able to seize the camera.
O'Rourke then called the police and made a formal complaint of assault. The two journalists were examined for injuries under police supervision at a city hospital.
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Ed
17 yrs ago
We'll leave this run - but while we are throwing stones let's not forget that Margaret Thatcher was instrumental in allowing Pinochet to escape international justice when he was arrested then allowed to leave London - let's not forget how members of the murderous pre-Castro Cuba regime reside quite comfortably in south Florida... Marcos in Hawaii, the Shah of Iran...and check out all the dirty money that has piled into Singapore from Indonesia...then of course, Dick Cheney, Bush and Rumsfeld gave the ok to torture and no doubt kill when they renditioned suspects to dungeons around the world)
There's plenty of hypocrisy to go around...
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There is an argument that says that it is better for tyrants, dictators, and so on to be given an opportunity - even assistance - to relocate if that means they get out of the politics of their own country for good.
Mugabe in Hong Kong is going to do far less harm than Mugabe living in Zimbabwe, or even elsewhere in Africa - where he would have an on-going opportunity to meddle in the affairs of his ruined homeland.
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There is absolutely not excuse for the thuggish behaviour that comes with the Mugabe tyrants. The Magbe's and their thugs maybe above the law in Zimbabwe but they are certainly not above the law in Hong Kong. The thugs who assulted the journalists should be investigated and charged and their tourist visa's revoked. Hong Kong should let the world know loud and clear that this sort of behaviour will not be tolerated in our country.
I wonder what sort of visa's the Margabe's have been granted?
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It's because his daughter studies at the University of Hong Kong.
I doubt very much he would come here personally, probably for her to live in.
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exactly Maya, and whether he does spend time here or not, he seems bound and determined to drive Zimbabwe into the ground, and the people there with it...if anywhere needed a 'regime change', that would be it...too bad there's no oil there, or Bush would have done it long ago...
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