Hussen’s veto of Rothman cigarettes mixed anti-apartheid principle with political interests

Evidence

Osman, diary, January 2, 1966. On the following day President Osman wrote the fol- lowing about his prime minister: “Abdirazak H. Hussen is not so generous in pardoning those that he believes have done something wrong or have been an enemy… . Yesterday I asked him for the hundredth time to let it be—taking back the veto—about the question of the ‘Rothman’ cigarettes whose introduction in Somalia he had blocked because he believes they are South African, but he now seems to have blocked them only because [of] Haji Musa Boqor’s interests. And so Abdirazak does not want to hear about it.” — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1439

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Category: Factual Claims