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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Trump’s evidence of South Africa ‘white genocide’ contains images from Democratic Republic of Congo

South African President Ramaphosa Meets With President Donald Trump in Washington and is confronted with supposed evidence of white genocide.
South African President Ramaphosa Meets With President Donald Trump in Washington and is confronted with supposed evidence of white genocide. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/UPI/Shutterstock

The evidence of supposed mass killings of white South Africans presented by Donald Trump in a tense White House meeting on Wednesday were in some cases images from the Democratic Republic of Congo, while footage shown during the meeting was falsely portrayed as depicting “burial sites”.

“These are all white farmers that are being buried,” said Trump, holding up a print-out of an article accompanied by a picture during the contentious Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

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