Nelson Mandela dies.

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Mandela was a great man and would protect your human rights as well.

Is he in such a position to protect my human rights?
All I see is a man that fought for his own people, not mine, obviously.
Why isn't Ospan Batyr hailed as loudly as him? He led a similar struggle for independence in the Altai and Turkestan, and he was executed in Urumqi, he was killed by having his ears and arms cut off, and was not set free by foreign intervention. His name is but an obscure footnote in history solely because he lacked the necessary support in the leftist media to glorify him.
Mandela might have been a great man. But so was Ospan Batyr. If people will glorify him for sitting on his ass in a cell for 25 years, then fine by me. But Ospan Batyr spent his whole life in the highlands and steppes, facing his enemies, while he was set free because of the huge campaign that coerced the South African authorities into setting him free.
Again, not to discredit Mandela, but he was not someone that should have been made a worldwide hero. He sure is no hero of mine.
Another false idol.