Simon Mann | Cambridge Union

Simon Mann speaks in the Library at 5pm on 7th March 2023.
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Thumbnail Photographer: William Blakesley-Herbert
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Simon Mann has done it all. A former SAS officer; his mercenary company Sandline International developed a reputation for efficiency, quelling uprisings across West Africa. In 1997, Sandline was called in to put down an uprising in Papa New Guinea, sparking a military revolt in the so-called Sandline Affair: After organising a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea involving Margaret Thatcher's son, Mann was imprisoned in Zimbabwe for 4 years. He was extradited to Equatorial Guinea in the oil for Mann' deal, where Robert. Mugabe allegedly traded Mann for cheap Equatorial Guinean oil. Mann served 2 vears in Africa's most notorious prison, Black Beach, before being released in 2009 after UK government petitions. Mann maintains that the coup was backed by a number of government ministers.
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[@ivorc8957]

I love this guy.

[@steveh5005]

Always interesting to listen to Simon Mann. I attended an interview in a London hotel in mid 1990s. In response to an advert in the London evening standard! Before social media of course. I remember it was Angola diamond mines. I wasn't selected. Clearly it was his guys doing the interviews

[@Nathrezz]

Fantastic interview, well done

[@billevans7936]

watching with great interest...

[@SwitzerlandEducation4471]

“I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.” ― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

[@penduloustesticularis1202]

What a great guy. What a life he's led.

[@LondonFriendsWalks]

Simon is a charming very likeable English gentleman, but the bottom line is he has killed people for money, does he really deserve a round of applause?

[@louissanderson719]

You’re missing context here…

[@penduloustesticularis1202]

He deserves a standing ovation.

[@LondonFriendsWalks]

@@penduloustesticularis1202 what for?

[@iker8010]

​​@@LondonFriendsWalks he has done questionable things like the Coup d'État in New Guinea but EO did some really good work like giving the RUF a beatdown and pushing them back, giving the poor people of Sierra Leone some rest from the atrocities committed by those monsters. Of course that was quickly ruined by the UN, as they always do. And btw, the Sierra Leone job was a free job essentially since the government at the time barely had any money to pay EO for their services.

[@marcobsomer5574]

trop long !

[@pedroroque8681]

The fact that this guy (a serious spineless criminal involved with high-level military crimes) gets praised at an Institution such as Cambridge speaks volumes about the state of the world. Sickening.

[@alexanderspear9464]

Spineless? Really ? And, the rest is conjecture.