Evidence of the alleged massacres of white South Africans, which Donald Trump banned in its kind of South Africa at a tense meeting in the White House on Wednesday, in some cases there were images of the Democratic Republic of the Congo or images of South Africa itself, but they had to see.
“All these are white farmers who are buried,” Trump said, showing a printed copy of the article accompanied by a photograph during a controversial meeting in an oval office with President Kiril Ramafos. The image that accompanied the article was a screenshot of a video published by Reuters on February 3, and was subsequently confirmed by a team of information agencies; In it, humanitarian workers looked at the lifting bags containing corpses in the Congolese rubber city (East). The image was extracted from Reuters, recorded after a bloody battle with the rebels M23, supported by Rwanda.
The White House did not answer Reuters questions about the use of these images.
During the meeting, Trump also had an ambush in Ramafos, reproducing the video, which, according to the president, showed that genocide against the white population of South Africa was performed. In this video there were images that, according to Trump, were shown by tombs of more than a thousand white farmers marked with white crosses.
Images made on the road, which connects the small cities of Newkaslav and Normandin in South Africa, were actually a memory. Rob Hoatson, who erected a monument to attract the attention of the public, told the BBC chain that this is not a cemetery: “It was a memorable monument. It was not a permanent monument, it was a temporary monument, ”he explained. It was registered after the murder of two Afrikaneres farmers (white European origin) in the area.
The video reproduced by Trump on Wednesday contained several lodges and inaccuracies, in order to support his proposal “asylum” to the pursued white farmers, which was outraged by the government of South Africa, which denies the accusations. The White House said that the images were evidence of the white farmers genocide in South Africa. This conspiracy theory, which has been spreading over the years for many years, is based on false statements.
Julius Malem, a incendiary politician, known for his radical rhetoric, with a red beret of his Marxist inspirational populist party, fighters for economic freedom (EFF), appeared in this record, chanted the attractiveness of “cut the neck to the whiteness”, as well as a disputed song, the anti -dispatch of the bug
Trump has falsely said that Malema is a government official, hinting that his incendiary slogans reflect an official policy against the white minority of South Africa, but the truth is that he is an opposition politician who became relevant for the assistance of radical reforms, such as the redistribution of land and the nationalization of key economic sectors.
The match was the fourth in last year’s elections in South Africa, with 9.5% of the vote. During a meeting in the Oval office of Ramafos and his delegation were distanced from Malem’s speech. The Minister of Agriculture John Steinhuisen, a member of the democratic Alliance Centrodécha, told Trump that he had joined the multi -party coalition of Ramafos “precisely in order to keep these people from power.”
Ramafos visited Washington this week to try to improve relations with Trump after his constant criticism in Praetory’s policy and after arriving in the United States by half a hundred Africanese – as the descendants of former Dutch settlers are known – under the category of “refugees”.
With information from Reuters and AFP agencies