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Thatcher’s top secret plan to destabilise the Ethiopian government

by laura | Nov 27, 2015 | Human Rights, The Commonwealth

by Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, ICWS Newly-released documents show that in 1985, the PM wrote to the Foreign Office seeking action on the Marxist and pro-Soviet regime in Ethiopia. Towards the end of 1985, at the height of the worst famine in modern Ethiopian...

Thatcher, the Commonwealth and apartheid South Africa

by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Apr 17, 2013 | Africa, Human Rights

Margaret Thatcher was not just a highly controversial figure on the British Left, and in the history of Britain’s relations with Europe. As Prime Minister, she proved equally controversial within the Commonwealth for her staunch opposition to the imposition of economic sanctions against apartheid South Africa.

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