Posted on 09/02/2009 6:54:15 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
HARARE (AFP) – President Robert Mugabe has pardoned 1,500 inmates, more than 10 percent of the prison population, as Zimbabwe struggles to provide them with food and water, an official said Wednesday.
Mugabe granted amnesty to 1,544 prisoners, mainly women and juveniles, as well as people with terminal illnesses, said the permanent secretary in the justice ministry David Mangota.
"The Zimbabwe Prison Service has faced challenges in... provision of prisoners' rations, clothing and bedding, toiletries and transport among others," Mangota told the official New Ziana news agency.
"As a short-term relief option... a proposal to have a general amnesty was granted to inmates," he added.
People convicted of offences such as murder, rape or conspiracy against the government would not qualify for the amnesty, Mangota said.
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I'm fairly sure they have a broad definition for 'conspiracy against the government.'
Common thugs make good military fodder in a dictatorship.
Zim ping
That means it was the fault of the white farmers who left the country, those bastards!!!
(sarcasm off)
California now has a precedent
There is no more food for them.
It’s already in Hell. And has been for a long time.
My definition of hell is “as bad as it could possibly get.” Unfortunately, Zimbabwe isn’t quite there yet. It may be soon.
Yup...twofer...can’t pay to keep them in prison, pay by means of their service with their release.
“your Free. No go kill some white farmers.” John Mugabe-like
Obama’s goal for the USA.
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