WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump showed a screenshot of a Reuters video taken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during a meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, claiming that the video was evidence of mass killings of white South Africans, Sputnik/RIA Novosti reported.
According to news agency Reuters, during their meeting in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump showed Ramaphosa printed screenshots of videos and news articles allegedly backing his claims that a "white genocide" is taking place in South Africa.
One of the screenshots, in fact, was of a video, released on February 3, depicting humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma after clashes with the M23 rebel movement, the news agency reported.
"These are all white farmers that are being buried," Trump told his South African counterpart while showing the screenshot
In January, Ramaphosa signed a law allowing land expropriation without compensation under certain circumstances. In early February, Trump said that South Africa was "treating certain classes of people very badly" and promised to cut off all future funding to South Africa until an investigation into the matter was completed.
Trump later said the US had stopped all funding for South Africa over its "terrible" farmer policies and opened a fast citizenship track for South African farmers and their families. - BERNAMA-SPUTNIK/RIA NOVOSTI