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Why was Ian Smith ex-Prime minister of Rhodesia never assaulted harassed or killed by the African people in Zimbabwe?
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Because he was not seen as an opressor - neither by black nor white Rhodesians. The Rhodesian Bush War wasn't about race, it was more about being Communist or not, since Mugabe and other rebel groups were funded by the USSR and Ian D. Smith by South Africa etc. .
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