Mugabe lashes out at US and Britain over human rights

ACCUSING his foes of portraying Zimbabwe as "an enemy of mankind," President Robert Mugabe yesterday told Britain and the US not to preach human rights and democracy to Zimbabwe.

"We are projected as being inhuman, as savages, as violators of the rule of law," Mugabe said in Kuala Lumpur, where he rebuked Western powers at two separate speeches to the business community.

"This is the picture which our enemies those who do not want the Zimbabweans to be in control of their own destiny desire to project, so we can be seen as an enemy of mankind," Mugabe said.