Zimbabwe in meltdown - UN envoy

BBC Online (UK) ^ | 12/08/2005 | Staff

[1066AD]

Mr Mugabe's spokesman said Zimbabweans were "not tent people" and they wanted the UN to build permanent homes.

Spoken while Mugabe's retirement palace nears completion.

[1066AD]

Ping.

[Gefreiter]

"Zimbabwe in meltdown - UN envoy" *SIGH* What's this gonna cost...?

[Bahbah]

the food insecurity

Is this the new UN speak for starvation.

[bert]

or build a wall and let it all destroy its self within.

[saveliberty]

Notice the sluggish pace of the UN's involvement when there's no cash to be had?

[Lowell]

I have said it before " I don't care how many children they show with flies coming out of their mouths, I will not send one single dime".
Everyone has let this guy kill whomever he wanted for whatever reason. If it melts, it melts.

[Owl558]

"He also said President Robert Mugabe's rejection of tents for hundreds of thousands of people evicted and made homeless this year is "puzzling"."

As I understand, the people turned out of their slums are generally opponents of the current government.

Egeland's puzzlement over why a despotic, marxist maniac might want to see his political opponents suffer and possible die suggests a level of idiocy on Egeland's part that is truly staggering.

[libstripper]

The absolutely astounding thing about this whole horror is how closely it parallels what Lenin, Stalin, and the Bolsheviks did to Russia. Curiously enough, I wonder if the motivation for eliminating the white farmers was really rascist or, more likely, a deliberate Marxist effort to eliminate the most productive people in the country while using thier race as a pretext. Mugabe, just like Lenin and Stalin, is deliberately starving and pauperizing his people to reduce them to completely dependent slaves.

[fella]

He also said President Robert Mugabe's rejection of tents for hundreds of thousands of people evicted and made homeless this year is "puzzling".

This envoy is stareing at Soviet style mass-murder aided and approved by his organization and he is puzzeled.

[minus_273]

"Jan Egeland"

This name rings a bell.. I know we have heard from him before. Oh yeah,
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/powell.aid/

Mr Stingy.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

No good deed goes unpunished.

How I wish there were evidence to the contrary.

[Uncle Miltie]

Mugabe's genocide is only exceptional in that he's more effectively "redistributed wealth" than the Democrats.

[massgopguy]

Who says Kwaanza's fake?

[Bahbah]

Notice the sluggish pace of the UN's involvement when there's no cash to be had?

I have been noticing this for some time. The pattern is to let a situation get just horrific and then to show pictures of slaughtered Rwandans, or big eyed babies with protruding bellys, shocking the conscionce of the world, from whence now will come oodles of dollars to set up camps and humanitarian "efforts" that never end and never make peoples lives any better.

[dfwgator]

Coming soon to Venezuela.

[xenophiles]

And when asked why donors should fund the $276m being requested to save lives in Zimbabwe, Mr Egeland said "it is in no way punishing the government, to not help women and children in great need".

And how does Mr. Egeland think this will end? Things will get steadily worse for the women and children (and men!) of Zimbabwe until Mugabe's regime ends, regardless of the amount of foreign aid poured into Mugabe's hands. Sending humanitarian aid to Zimbabwe is like transfusing blood into a patient with a spurting artery.

[domenad]

So what? Bush is a threat to world peace, right?