Children Die Beneath Mugabe's Bulldozer

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 6-24-2005 | Allister Leithead

[blam]

Ping.

[Aussie Dasher]

A human tragedy of truly mammoth proportions is unfolding in Zimbabwe. Where the hell is Kofi?

[bikepacker67]

Waiting for the perfunctory Rachel Corrie pancake pics...

[cookcounty]

Who was the manufacturer? Renault? Will they be boycotted?

[Ironfocus]

I've just read that Mugabe and his thugs have arrested more than 46,000 people since the middle of May. Their crime? Being traders and/or living in a shack.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_1726519,00.html

When is it enough? When will the world wake up to these atrocities?

[cyborg]

Put the screws to them like they did to South Africa back in the day. Love these liberals though. They figure on doing nothing since it's just Africa but whoa let something happen in Bosnia!

http://www.saynotozimtour.com/

[perfect stranger]

She added: "Of course they have managed to clean up the city but at the same time they have brought suffering to the people - property destruction, homelessness and now the death of a child."

WTH? I don't understand that.

[Publius6961]

Charmaine was two years old and inside the family home when the police came with their bulldozers and levelled the house.

Have those pathetic, thieving, lying, raping leeches in the U.N. Made any noises like they have an irresistible urge to send a "fact-finding" mission to Zimbabwe?

I thought not...

[Conservative Firster]

Before and after images show shanty town clearance in a suburb of Harare.

[tgslTakoma]

Where the hell is Medea Benjamin and the other womyn of Code Pink? Where the hell is international ANSWER? Where the hell is Michael Moore, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, George Soros, John Conyers, Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Ramsey Clark, Bruce Springsteen, etc., etc.?

[al_again]

Where the hell is Kofi??? You must be joking. I want to know where the hell is th US and the UK, I thought we were the leaders of the free world who stood up to the tyrants.

We are a joke - there is no real conviction for human rights. We let attrocities happen without a second thought unless there is some sort of gain for the US.

I am disgusted, absolutely sick that this can happen in this day and age. The entire world just sits around and lets another crappy African banana republic get away with horrific crimes against humanity. I R PISSED AND I CAN'T DO A DAMN THING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[tgslTakoma]

Incredible photos; and where is the liberal outrage?

[RJL]

The Zimbabwean government has spent the past few years targeting white farmers, those with land and wealth; now it seems to be picking on the poor.

And then they came for me...

[captain_dave]

The Blacks were better off when the country was called Rhodesia. It seems that before, they had limited rights; now they have no rights. Before, they they could not vote; now they are just killed.

But it's ok because Mugabe not a White guy. (Isn't that how the Left thinks?)

[Aussie Dasher]

The thing that has me pissed is that the West will be expected to go in and pick up the pieces.

I doubt The Great Ronald Reagan would have allowed it to get this far.

[Publius6961]

I am disgusted, absolutely sick that this can happen in this day and age. The entire world just sits around and lets another crappy African banana republic get away with horrific crimes against humanity. I R PISSED AND I CAN'T DO A DAMN THING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

You're doing just fine.
Blame your country.

Even if you've not got two synapses to rub together, and even if you're not an actor, entertainer or sports figure, that is sure to put you solidly in the "caring" camp.

nobody's noticed that the U.S. is busy 24/7 defending itself from murdering muslims, plus friends and foe alike?

[Publius6961]

You insensitive homophobic buffoon!
They're free!
Perception always trumps reality. It's the thought that counts.

[Axenolith]

Looks like someone is in the process of emulating Pol Pot...

[Arpege92]

"I want to know where the hell is the US and the UK, I thought we were the leaders of the free world who stood up to the tyrants."

We are in Iraq and Afghanastan....that's where we are. Instead of putting the blame on the U.S. and the UK...you should be placing the blame on the UN! This organization was created for dealing with issues such as this....and have failed at it big time!