Gandhi bị hạ tượng

Gandhi phân biệt chủng tộc, người ấn hơn mọi phi da đen...

-> Ghana sẽ hạ một bức tượng của ông ở trường đại học ở thủ đô nước này
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Ghana has said it will remove a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from a university campus in the nation’s capital where it had sparked (khuấy động, phát lửa) protests (biểu tình) over the leader’s allegedly (bị cáo buộc) racist (phân biệt chủng tộc) attitudes (thái độ).

The statue (bức tượng), which was unveiled (khánh thành) by Indian President Pranab Mukherjee during his visit to Ghana in June, was meant to symbolize (biểu tượng) friendship (tình hữu nghị) between the two countries, according to Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But professors and students at the University of Ghana called the statue “a slap in the face” (cú tát vào mặt) because of Gandhi’s “racist identity.” They started an online petition (kiến nghị) calling for the statue’s removal.

The petition, which had more than 1,700 supporters on Thursday, cited letters Gandhi wrote during his time in South Africa as evidence that he advocated (ủng hộ) for the superiority (ưu trội hơn) of Indians over black Africans. It also took issue with his use of the derogatory (xúc phạm) term kaffir (từ sỉ nhục để ám chỉ người Phi da đen) to refer to native Africans and criticized the lack of statues of African heroes and heroines on campus.

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