Years of tolerating law-breaking, yet we feign surprise
25 July 2021 - 00:00
The president called it an “attempted insurrection”. His defence minister demurred, instead naming it a “counter-revolution … in the form of hooliganism and thuggery”. Then, after a very public put-down by the presidency, she told us the president was right all along...
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