8 million Zimbabweans need food aid

AFP via ZWNews ^ | December 6, 2002

[Clive]

Harare - Close to eight million people in Zimbabwe now need food aid, a government minister said on Thursday, quoted by the state news agency.

Deputy Finance Minister Chris Kuruneri was reported by ZIANA to have told a visiting UN envoy that nearly eight million people - more than two-thirds of the population - need food aid following widespread crop failures here.

The figure is up from previous estimates of 6.7 million out of the country's total population of 11.6 million.

Zimbabwe is the worst-affected among six southern African countries facing famine this year, according to the United Nations.

[Clive]

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[American in Israel]

On the pattern of it is better to teach a man to fish than to just give him one, lets pop a hellfire missile into Mugabees Limo next time he goes for a ride.

It will solve the problem, and in a rather apt way.

(My I am in an onery mood...)

[Caipirabob]

No matter how much aid we send, no matter how much food we deliver, now matter how much we want to help these people their goverment will not permit us to. These people will die as a sacrifice upon the alter of Socialism. There is nothing we can do about it outside of removing the Socialists and installing a representative Republic style government and distribute aid via armed forces.

Any other way and the goods will end up in storage and enrich Swiss bank accounts.

[Lizavetta]

nearly eight million people - more than two-thirds of the population - need food aid following widespread crop failures here.

Zimbabwe is the worst-affected among six southern African countries facing famine this year,

Another article about the starving Africans with nary a word about the dictatorships responsible; it's always those pesky crop failures.

Bend over, folks. This is going to be plastered all over the evening news for the purpose of launching a major guilt trip on rich, fat Americans who should donate to this humanitarian cause, because when you get right down to it, it's really the fault of Whitey's colonialism of 60+ years ago, not the government crooks who rob, pillage, and decimate their lands and people year after year after year after year after year. Haven't we figured out yet that the aid will go straight into the pockets of the dictators?

And a year or two down the road we'll be treated to yet another batch of photos showing dying Africans, with no discernable change in the condition of these poor people in spite of the gazillions of dollars given.

[NewHampshireDuo]

Close to eight million people in Zimbabwe now need food aid, a government minister said on Thursday

Well, then it's time for those eight million people to get rid of their own greedy, criminal government..

[Constitutional Patriot]

No. I think the headline should read "Mugabe Needs a Bullet in the Head".

[Search4Truth]

Send weapons to the starving masses. That will solve the problem, permanently.

[HELLRAISER II]

One has to ask one's self why this is, Could it be that it's because Pres. Mugabe has killed all the White Farmers that were feeding his people or maybe it's because he's hoarding all the food. Either way quite frankly it's their own damn problem, we do not need to be in the middle of period. Monetarily or militarily, let them fend for themselves.

[gilor]

No. I think the headline should read "Mugabe Needs a Bullet in the Head".

I second that!

[Avoiding_Sulla]

"One has to ask one's self why this is"

This, along with the rest of the evidence, is nothing short of planned mass murder.

Poll a sampling even of Americans and you will find a majority fully believe the Malthusian propaganda that the human population of the world is already too great.

Mugabe aims to please his globalist, magalomaniacal fraternity brothers. The front men for the powerful make a big show of fretting and wringing of their hands, but ultimately aim to do nothing to intervene.

The poor people of Zimbabwe are the latest among many human sacrifices brought to the alter of the enviro-wacked haters of humanity.

I know you don't want to believe it, but leave things as they are developing, undaunted, and its only a matter of time and grim chance when you and yours will be yanked from your smug perch into the ubermenchen's inferno.

But, then again, since you are a hellraiser too, you probably fully welcome it. God bless you.

[HELLRAISER II]

I don't think that I'm up on my smug perch, if we give those people money or food it will end up in Mugabe's stronghold and those people will still starve. If we move in militarily we will just be seen as the American Bullies again in the eyes of the world. What's in it for us anyway? More dead American soldiers and the ungratefulness of their nation as well as the rest of the world. I don't know about you but I am tired of American's policing the world, it's not our responsibility nor do they want us there. So again I say let them deal with their own problems.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

The majority of your response suggests failed or untenable solutions for treating symptoms, while ignoring the root cause of the disease.

You end with a line that seems aimed to inspire callousness in any casual reader:

So again I say let them deal with their own problems. Never-you-mind how much of "their" situation has been instigated, fostered, fomented, promulgated, planned, engineered, rewarded by "us?"

You imply the media's slant of world opinion justifies turning a deaf ear. If you have a sense for human decency, your convictions certainly seem woefully inadequate.

Not to say you don't have company. In fact your stance appears to be that of the most common. But as you are Hellraiser too, for safety, shouldn't I infer your stance is the least noble?

With that in mind, this is what I think you are saying: "perish the thought how much 'we' are really at fault." Besides, as I suggested before, you wish us to believe it's to our benefit anyway --"us" being provided more "lebensraum." (Is that too subtle an historical reference?).

So be clear what it is you choose to ignor. Are you content with the globalist agenda? Their misanthropic enviro-wacked policy aims for retaining 1/2 billion people out of 6.5 billion. "Us" is targetted to get smaller with each passing year. Please check back with "us" periodically so that we know you're still there. Okay? God bless you.

[Bill Davis FR]

mugabe, the killer of zimbabwe

[HELLRAISER II]

I haven't had a thing to do with President Mugabe, South Africa or Zimbabwe. As for me sounding callous, perhaps I am or perhaps I just see things as they really are. The United States is responsible for Americans, not Africans, Asians etc.....As for the media's slant on world opinion, well I don't buy all of it.

However I've read & seen enough to know that it's not media slant it's actually the way world feels about us.

How have "WE" instigated "THEIR" fostered, fomented, promulgated, planned, engineered situation by us? As for me being the least noble because of my handle, well all I can say about that is that you haven't read many of my posts if you think i'm just some hard @ss with world domination at heart.

By the way I don't have a globalist agenda, I just want to take care of me & mine and Zimbabwe's people don't make the list.

[HELLRAISER II]

I was unaware of that. Apparently I didn't do enough homework on the subject, thanks for the info. But for the record I don't feel any different about the situation, it doesn't mean I don't wish those people weren't starving. I truly wish they were not, but we can't continue to clothe, feed, police & protect the whole world. It's going to break us trying and that is my problem with this situation, sometimes feelings and economics just don't jibe.