A deadly reversal
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, yesterday's victims have become today's aggressors. More.

This seems always a hard thing for many people to understand. Once a victim, always a victim, is the more common understanding of things. And lots of dead people - some 3,8 million in DR of Congo - ensue, as the victims-turned-aggressors aren´t dealt with.

Another mistake that is related to that to above is the "once a good guy, always a good guy" way of thinking, that has - for example - blinded many African leaders so that they don´t see or don´t want to see how cr*p Robert Mugabe´s regime in Zimbabwe is. But over twenty years in power is enough to turn a freedom fighter into a poor man´s Mobutu Sese Seko.