BELGIUM: MUGABE: HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGNER

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(5 Mar 2001) English/Nat
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A human rights campaigner in Belgium was left briefly unconscious in a gutter by Zimbabwean security guards after he tried to make a "citizens arrest" on President Robert Mugabe who visited visited Brussels on Monday.
Gay activist, Peter Tatchell, attempted to "arrest" Mugabe on the charge of torture, under the 1984 United Nations Convention Against Torture which Belgium has signed.
He approached Mugabe as he left a meeting with E-U Development Aid Commissioner, Poul Nielsen in the Hilton hotel, branding him a torturer.
But Mugabe's security guards lashed out at Tatchell, pinning him to a wall and beating him over the head before leaving him lying in a gutter outside.
Meanwhile, the President was bundled into a car and taken to his next meeting with Belgian Prime Minister, Guy Verhofstadt.
Speaking after the attack, Tatchell condemned the Belgian police, who he accused of standing by whilst he was being assaulted.
The Zimbabwean President is on a tour of European capitals.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"People who I believe were President Mugabe's secret agents attacked me, punching me around the head and face, even though I was no physical threat to the President, I merely said that President should be arrested for the crime of torture under the 1984 United Nations Convention Against Torture which Belgium has signed. The Belgian security police allowed the Zimbabwean government agents to beat me with impunity. Despite my request that they be arrested they not only walked away and allowed the agents, the Zimbabwean agents, to attack me, they refused to take any subsequent action against them."
SUPER CAPTION: Peter Tatchell, Protestor
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@dahinocurez1755 2 жыл бұрын

Approaching any world leader like this isn't advisable. Imagine trying to approach a US president or Vladimir Putin's Entourage, on international duties, like this? It really exposed security issues, because he seemed to be able to get relatively close to a head of state. They weren't sure what his intentions were and wanted to neutralise the threat.

@frankservant5754 Жыл бұрын

I agree

@maxwellchibwe5956 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely

@VoiceOfVoiced 6 ай бұрын

I agree with most of what you say here, but Peter Tatchell is so brave that he was willing to taken on the dangers you describe. Mugabe's security team here also went much further than try to neutralise any threat: their initial responses to get him away from the president are quite understandable and of course were their basic duty. Their subsequent violence against Tatchell was disproportionate, unprovoked, unnecessary, grotesque, and morally criminal. Same goes for the Belgian police who decided to let Mugabe and his thugs deploy their violence with impunity. They only reinforced Peter Tatchell's point. Just imagine how Mugabe and his officials treated their own citizens behind closed doors.

@billygiles3276 5 жыл бұрын

The Belgians angry over human rights? What hypocrisy.

@dillonparker9101 11 ай бұрын

tatchell is british

@user-vq1pt7yw9l 8 ай бұрын

@@dillonparker9101it’s the same thing brits did worse to humanity

@djtank8688 3 жыл бұрын

That slap 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥

@BoloTim 3 жыл бұрын

Peter Thatchell you are the only civilian who ever scared the late Mugabe 🤣🤣 .But on this occasion we can all see you lied that you only spoke about arresting him when you actually reached out and tried to apprehend him physically .You got the reaction expected from security details , why are you surprised ?

@chamunorwachiyangwa4608 3 жыл бұрын

That slap ,my first born shall see it I beilive 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣pssswaaaaaasp

@trevorgiddings3053 Жыл бұрын

Well worth watching how to neutralise a threat without a gun being used.

@sifx.z1524 6 ай бұрын

Trying to arrest any head of state from anywhere will get you an ass whooping from their security: common sense!

@boxingfan6766 2 жыл бұрын

Tatchell doing a fine bit of acting laying there on the floor.

@thegoldenpanther6986 Жыл бұрын

Waiting for a young boy to come along, no doubt.

@jasonrichards2371 4 ай бұрын

whilst i dont like corrupt dictators i detest this filthy nonce

@sidneymunemo6394 7 жыл бұрын

that activist is a fool

@aadamalmakky965 5 жыл бұрын

sidney munemo no he was just someone who believed in the rights of people living in Zimbabwe and he received hundreds of emails thanking him for doing so , I was lucky enough to actually meet him

@BigSamAviation 2 жыл бұрын

@@aadamalmakky965 what human rights???

@Neftegna 3 жыл бұрын

0:21 "President Mugabe you're under arrest.. Aww!" 😂

@trispeedconsulting1243 Жыл бұрын

And by a slimy assed civilian! Beat that

@tapiwanashebanda5362 6 ай бұрын

Mugabe in Shona murovei kkkkkkkkkkkkkk😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

@riru4563 3 ай бұрын

Ndizvoooo

@collinssaruchera4666 4 жыл бұрын

Im happy you did that in europ

@onemanschorus12 6 жыл бұрын

A black on white beating that we can all applaud.

@caelan8819 4 жыл бұрын

Stop being a racist. Mugabe was a criminal who tortured and rapes his own people, the tyrant should have been toppled years ago.

@caelan8819 3 жыл бұрын

J T, No.

@tbphillips9649 Жыл бұрын

Idiot

@blondie9422 Жыл бұрын

Those guys don’t play 😮 Reminds me how tolerant and soft Britain is (which I sometimes think is great and sometimes not)

@jayjones5050 7 жыл бұрын

cheeky.

@julaingallimore7152 11 ай бұрын

Brave man ♂️

@errolkim1334 2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@kevinjaylow4147 Күн бұрын

Discuss with the European union best response ever

@bantupumpfbktv1008 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant 👏 showmanship Peter.

@MG-ol8hs 2 жыл бұрын

haha he was immobile for 10 minutes after that wimpy slap

@jon123xyz 7 жыл бұрын

a real man

@jamesmccann355 3 жыл бұрын

Nah. Just a "BUM BOY!

@Ericvonmanstein. Жыл бұрын

Nah he's gay.

@user-cb3lg5gk2k Жыл бұрын

When you try to chew more what you can swallow

@markrozee Жыл бұрын

What a hero!!

@nelsonmaingi1297 Жыл бұрын

His fellow Heroes went on to spread "democracy and freedom" in Iraq and Libya but ended up killing over million women and children

@briangatt2956 2 жыл бұрын

Serves you right for trying to place a head of state under citizen's arrest.

@atomicx2681 Жыл бұрын

Coughs in king Leopold

@frankservant5754 Жыл бұрын

Ko chibhakera icho 😂😂

@arotogtech 4 жыл бұрын

Senseless bravery!

@GST51 Жыл бұрын

this was great !! although i was torn over whose side to take with my natural tendency to both racism and homophobia, LOL I think I will side with the Africans on this occasion purely for Tatchells pathetic response to a gentle slap , he claimed to have been "punched , beaten and knocked unconcious " pathetic character !

@riru4563 3 ай бұрын

Hanzi handei after that slap!👋

@englishtom172 Жыл бұрын

Peter 'i'm with NAMBLA' Tatchell.

@fantastic2708 2 ай бұрын

Security never messes around bro was beaten in public

@fwm146 7 жыл бұрын

could hear mugabe in the background speaking in shona, instructing his people to hit him

@sewellpercy3179 5 жыл бұрын

Good job then!

@bukhosindebele5358 2 жыл бұрын

Best him best him

@frankservant5754 Жыл бұрын

I didn't hear that part

@andydavies5883 Жыл бұрын

Peter Tatchell is a public nuisance and has been punched more times than Henry Cooper 🤪

@astrotheology9101 3 жыл бұрын

LOL

@DocWii Жыл бұрын

Kkkkkkk pwaaaaaaaaaaaaa

@msi4063 9 жыл бұрын

Uncle Bob has always been Mafiosi

@layzimdawson7116 7 жыл бұрын

I love Robert Mugabe for standing up to White Supremacy.Flat out.

@boutek 6 жыл бұрын

Layzim Dawson Lol. Yeah, by totally destroying it's country's economy. Zimbabwe was very prosperous before Mugabe took over.

@vasilijeblagojevic1880 6 жыл бұрын

@Layzim Dawson Yeah, my friend, but it is Western supremacy. Not all white people are like Westerners. For example, Russian policy is quite different. And I'm from Serbia (former Yugoslavia), and President Mugabe said in 2014 that Serbia is the "only perfect friend to Zimbabwe". You can find that statement on KZfaq. Serbians and Zimbabweans are brothers from Non-Aligned Movement and we love Zimbabwe, and we love free Africa, and free Cuba, and free China, and free Syria! Our enemies are US and EU! You know, NATO has bombed Serbia in 1999! And when they imposed sanctions on Serbia in 1992, Zimbabwe was the only country to vote against it in the UN Security Council. We don't forget that, my friend! We are brotherly nations!

@azarasdiary5943 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder if you love him now?.....lol

@hermonogbamichael8599 Жыл бұрын

Human rights...joke...ask NATO to tell you their human rights records all over the world 🌎

@kuzivakwasheajida6346 7 жыл бұрын

this some funny shit

@ramatgan1 6 жыл бұрын

650 black people have died in UK police cells.

@PatkaBoy831 4 жыл бұрын

Not enough imo.

@jasonrichards2371 3 жыл бұрын

Much more had their land and farms taken by the piece of shit Mugabe yet little complaint

@MG-ol8hs 2 жыл бұрын

@@PatkaBoy831 class act buddy 👌

@nubianqueen4375 Жыл бұрын

Even more

@Upperroad4480 Жыл бұрын

Dreadful state of affairs when the elderly are insulted by a dunce in this way.

@timothyg1986 7 жыл бұрын

Kula hio, nugu

@chamunorwachiyangwa4608 3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣amepewa zuli kaka hahaaaaa

@DenisOkuzi-je8jb 4 ай бұрын

😅😅 they got their asses whooped.

@cdechirume2979 3 ай бұрын

Hasas😂😂

@mcpartridgeboy 8 жыл бұрын

who said good men were weak, this guy is a fucking lion !!!!

@munopaishekunaishe2402 2 жыл бұрын

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

@cjames4232 Жыл бұрын

What did he realistically think would happen? As if Mugabe would put his hands behind his back and comply.

@dumisanindlovu5766 2 жыл бұрын

They should you a lesson, don't make a silly mistake Mitchell.

@stopscammingman 8 жыл бұрын

Perter Tatchell sure showed balls against Robert Mug[and starve your own people]abe.

@thatbozo 7 жыл бұрын

Astonishing number of homophobic trolls in these comments

@Upperroad4480 3 жыл бұрын

Homophobia means fear of men.that is all.

@Upperroad4480 Жыл бұрын

I like the way the woman said " don't touch him" about tatchels body.i wouldn't touch him either ...maybe tatchels homo sexual friends should be put on trial for human rights abuses after they touched heterosexual passers by...