On Remembrance Day it is important to honour the men and women who served and suffered, but it is essential to reflect on the root causes of war and all the victims of all wars. The war for Zimbabwe independence is a case in point. Doug gave a brief historical background and presented the coverage by the excellent investigative journalists at Ricochet.media who thoroughly researched how serving members of the armed forces set up an online store to sell Rhodesian memorabilia. In a perverse, white supremacist way, they are glorifying the brutal racist regime led by the WW2 veteran pilot, Ian Smith from 1965-1979, as the epitome of white “civilisation.”
