The Rhodesian Bush War reveals an uncomfortable truth about Western democracy, that lofty language about majority rule and human rights often collides with cold geopolitical calculations, leaving ...
A small white minority seized control of Rhodesia. Tacit support and weak condemnations extended the harmful regime.
HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last white prime minister whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war, died on Tuesday at age 88 ...