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After Rhodes he wants to tear down tricolore

Oliver Thring Published: 27 December 2015

Ntokozo Qwabe, co-founder of Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford, says France has committed acts of terror Ntokozo Qwabe, co-founder of Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford, says France has committed acts of terror (Ntokozo Qwabe)

THE student co-founder of the group campaigning to have a statue of Cecil Rhodes removed from an Oxford college has compared the French tricolore to the Nazi swastika and refused to say that Isis is worse than the French state.

Ntokozo Qwabe, 24, a law graduate who won a Rhodes scholarship to the university, defended his efforts to remove what he described as a “disgusting” statue of the Victorian tycoon. Qwabe said the effigy in Oriel College depicts a “racist, genocidal maniac” who was “as bad as Hitler”.

Shortly after last month’s Paris attacks, in which Isis gunmen murdered 130 people, Qwabe wrote on his Facebook page: “I do NOT stand with France. Not while it continues to terrorise and bomb Afrika [sic] & the Middle East for its imperial interests.”

Asked in an interview with The Sunday Times if he was implying that the French state is a terrorist

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