How Trump misbehave the photos to support the allegations of “white genocide” in South Africa, including the Congo video

He has The Oval Office meeting On Wednesday with the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramavusa, President Trump has made allegations of persecution from white farmers in South Africa, which he used to justify. Grant a refugee status For a group of Africans earlier this month.

Ramavusa denied that there is genocide, and some Africans say Mr. Trump is lying on About the “white genocide” in the country.

In the past three months of 2024, 12 people have been killed on farms in South Africa, according to South African police. The police said that one of them was a white farmer, while others were black workers or security workers. some Estimates Say in recent years, there have been about 50 murders per year, but that does not specify race. The country had nearly 27,000 murders last year, according to police data.

Mr. Trump has played videos and held articles during the White House meeting this week to support his baseless claims. But much of what he showed was distorted. Here are three examples:

Reuters footage of the bodies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mr. Trump has prepared a printed article from an “American thinker”, a conservative magazine on the Internet, which included a screenshot, attributed to Reuters, the president said, “I showed all the white farmers who are buried.”

But the video, which was taken from the screenshot, was a human worker who raised the body’s bags in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Reuters said. The footage was captured in February after fatal battles with the group of Congolese rebels backed by Rwanda in the city of Guma.

The “American thinker” article was about both Congo and South Africa, but the image does not show South Africa. Andrea Widburg, the administrative editor of “American Thinker” and author of The Post, told Reuters that Mr. Trump had “identified the picture.”

White cross line

Mr. Trump claimed pictures of the white cross seen in the video that was played during his meeting with Ramavusa, showing the burial sites of white farmers. However, the crosses were symbolic, part of protest In 2020, after a couple of white agriculture was killed, according to local media coverage. A The participant said They represented all the murders on the farm, not just white farmers, over the years.

The demonstration, which was held near Normandian, South Africa, was calling on the government to take more measures against the murders on the farm.

Ramavusa admitted the crime problem in his country.

“There is criminality in our country,” said Trump. “People who are unfortunately killed through criminal activity, are not only eggs. The majority of them are black.”

Group footage of the marginal politician

The video presented by Mr. Trump included clips from Julius Malima, the leader of the South African Politicians, the far left, the fighters of economic freedom. He heard as he sings an anti -francide song that includes lyric, “Kill the Boer”, referring to white farmers, in multiple clips of recent years.

Malaima was expelled from the ruling party in Ramavusa and the African National Congress, 13 years ago, and Ramavusa said EFF is a “small minority party” that does not represent the government. The African National Congress Party also He distanced from the song More than a decade ago.

In a statement to Reuters after the meeting between Mr. Trump and Ramavusa, EFF said that the song “expresses the desire to destroy the white minority control system on South African resources.”

Reuters reported that three courts from South Africa have been sentenced to attempts to appoint them as hate speech, saying that it was a historic liberation chant, not a literal incitement to violence.

Eril Dellerand

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Deborah Patta

He contributed to this report.