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“Some of us were said to be anti-West. But we were not. We were just anti-wrong... Whenever we thought that something was wrong, we condemned it publicly.”
Source: Interview with Tor Sellström, Lusaka, 15 July 1995; Nordic Africa Institute, Liberation Africa interview archive
Context Asked about Zambia's non-aligned foreign policy, he recalled condemning the United States over Vietnam and the Soviet Union over Czechoslovakia, and Western reluctance to sanction apartheid South Africa.
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