Dishonour for Mugabe

round the world.
Many of the universities prominent graduates and recipients of honorary degrees backed the campaign. Two of them composer James MacMillan and author Liz Lochead threatened to return their degrees if the university allowed Mugabe to keep his.
A number of British parliamentarians also backed the campaign. A committee of three professors will report to the university Senate that brutal repression in Matabeleland in the 1980s, Operation Murambatsvina and the current wave of police brutality as reasons for stripping Mugabe of the degree.
Sir Nicholas Winterton, vice chair of the Zimbabwe all party parliamentary group in the House of Commons, told Scotland on Sunday: “Mugabe will no doubt dismiss this as colonialism as he always does. But it will have an effect on the people of Zimbabwe and, I believe, on more moderate members of his party and government, who will realise that the world is not ignoring or forgetting the plight of the people of Zimbabwe.” – Staff reporter