User talk:Caafi Saxardiid

Rhodesian "foreign white mercenaries"

 * 1) "Foreign". Soldiers from overseas are, by definition, foreign.
 * 2) "White". Not all of them were white.
 * 3) "Mercenaries". See our article on mercenaries, which clearly states a "mercenary" is somebody motivated to switch allegiance for financial gain. Foreign soldiers in Rhodesia got the same pay and conditions as anybody else if they agreed to fight. I think a more accurate term is "foreign volunteer".

Kindly get your facts straight if you're going to make changes like this, and give sources for anything that might be considered controversial. —Cliftonian (talk) 03:43, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

A mercenary[1] is a person who takes part in an armed conflict, who is not a national or a party to the conflict.

I know it is difficult to rewrite history and any lengthy pages on Wikipedia will not change the reality. These were white mercenaries fighting in a country not their own, that the basic common sense understanding of a mercenary. I know it is hard being an a Dutch settler trying to write African history but that one big joke. It is like Nazi sympathizer trying to dispute the Holocaust. Others with far greater means of power and finance have failed what you are doing just now. Stories are told by the victories, by the way.


 * Eeesh, laaitie! Just you wait 'til I tell all my Dutch settler friends all about this! Let's look at a quotation, first: "A mercenary[1] is a person who takes part in an armed conflict, who is not a national or a party to the conflict, and is 'motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar ranks and functions in the armed forces of that Party'.[2][3]" That's the full quotation. In other words, a mercenary is somebody who fights for another country for financial gain, receiving higher pay than the regular soldiers in the same army. Foreign soldiers in the Rhodesian forces didn't get extra money or special treatment and, as I said before, not all of them were white. That's not me rewriting history or anything of the sort, that's just what happened and what the correct definitions are; simple as that. —Cliftonian (talk) 21:59, 6 April 2012 (UTC)