Can't win with you guys - just more of the same. So if the President says "No, we're not sending food aid to try and feed starving people in Zimbabwe", well THEN he's just a cold heartless bastard who cares nothing for the suffering of the third world. Works out quite neatly for you - you get to jump on him either way. And you guys talk about Clinton-bashing. That aside (and there's not a goddam thing we can do about it) Zimbabwe was about the only place where there were jobs and food and an actual functioning economy. Now it's a tragic basket case, and it's beginning to spill over into South Africa. The entire continent is a heap of war, cruelty, plague and death engineered by some of the coldest SOB's since Stalin. Hey, I have an idea - Let's hold a World Cup there !
Well, cricket's doing it in South Africa, Harare, and Nairobi this March, so it could be interesting...
Nope, that was Rhodesia. Then Mugabe came around, called it Zimbabwe and ran the country into the ground.
Tearful rants 'The game we are about to play needs music," the Zimbabwean police constable said to the 12-year old girl. But as he tossed a mattress on to the ground it was clear that it was no game that he was planning. For the next four hours the girl's mother and younger sisters, aged nine and seven, were forced to chant praises to Robert Mugabe and watch Dora being gang-raped by five "war veterans" and the policeman http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/25/wzim125.xml Officials now speak of "taking the system back to zero" and of reducing the country's 12 million population in a chilling echo of what the Khmer Rouge did in Cambodia in the 1970s and seem to even be employing similar tactics of emptying cities and targeting teachers. Last week Didymus Mutasa, the organisation secretary of Zanu-PF, said: "We would be better off with only six million people, with our own people who support the liberation struggle
Good articles on all aspects of the current situation in Zimbabwe. www.observer.co.uk/worldview/page/0,11916,713955,00.html For those who prefer to deal in facts rather then prejudices.
I just saw a report on the morning news from CNN Hong Kong that Australia is considering the option of sanctions on the Zimbabwe regime. They admitted that it wouldn't have much effect on Zimbabwe, but the symbolic effect would be important, especially if more countries like the UK and USA followed.
Re: Tearful rants Things are so miuch better now than they were when the country was a colony of Britian. sarcasm.
Farraklown supports Mugabe's land reform program. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/africa/2126648.stm What a surprise.
Before the colonists set up the farms the land wasn't technically owned by anyone, rather like how the US was before the arrival of the white settlers. Now I don't see too many Americans saying that as the land they own was really just stolen from the Native Americans by their ancestors that they should give it back. The wild west was being 'won' at pretty much the same time as the British were establishing Rhodesia after all. Dictatorial governments with a habit of executing their political rivals don't tend to have the best human rights records. If this was just about reclaiming land it could have been done easily without resorting to murder.