Posted on 06/09/2008 2:19:21 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
The next three weeks in Zimbabwe will be the most traumatic in its history. Robert Mugabe has declared war on the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), NGOs and churches to reverse the electoral defeat he suffered in March. It is a war on unarmed people. Can he win it and what would victory mean?
Scenario one: When the votes are counted after a peaceful, well-organised and credible election on June 27, President Mugabe concedes defeat, congratulates Morgan Tsvangirai, hands over the reins of power and retires. Likelihood? Zero.
The official results of the election on March 29 did not give Mr Tsvangirai more than half the votes so there must be a run-off. To secure victory, Emerson Mnangagwa, one of the architects of the massacres in Matabeland in 1983, with the heads of the police, defence forces and Gideon Gono, the Finance Minister, has launched a violent nationwide campaign to destroy the opposition's capacity to deliver the vote.
Only the towns that the ruling party now believe they cannot win have been spared. Key MDC organisers have been abducted and killed. The death toll is about 50 so far but may be many more. Anyone suspected of voting MDC is seized and ritually beaten, often on the back, buttocks and legs with whips and sticks, sometimes wrapped in barbed wire.
Another strategy is to force people out of their homes by burning their houses. Driven from their constituency areas, they will be disqualified from voting. MDC leaders are detained. NGOs are ordered to stop work in rural areas so that news of what is happening there cannot reach the outside world. It also means that hundreds of thousands of people, now dependent on food aid, will not be fed. The last strategy is to prepare a massive rigging campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
I thought removing guns from civilian hands made a country super safe.
Is this a call for the Brits to intervene?
Will they do it before or after the farce runoff?
It certainly does, for the guy who still has guns.
I’d advocate going into Africa just to take this SOB out.
Heck, I’d even be on the team to do it.
Carter’s silence has been deafening.
I think that even he realized “Cripes, I f***ed this up realy good. But I can’t possibly criticize Mugabe because then I would be perceived as having been wrong”.
Click on this link to the Carter Center’s web site:
http://cartercenter.org/news/pr/zimbabwe_observation_052308.html
A whole bunch of namby-pamby language that doesn’t do one damn thing for the people of Zimbabwe...
Hmmm... The current Brit government intervene. Hmmmm... Let me think a minute... hee hee... hee hee heee... BWAAAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!
It does.
For those who still have them.
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He’s waiting ‘til Mugabe cleans out the opposition camps then he’ll declare him the victor and welcome him to the club of Democrat (not democratic) nations.
Rwanda Redux.
I could envision a Saturday Night Live (SNL) on James Earl Carter revisiting his greatest successes ... [crickets chirping] ... then being forced to revisit his actual real-world record. Sigh, will never happen, SNL and the media have no concept of history and the idea of them trying to explain the 'Peanut Farmer' to the current hip generation, just takes too much time and imagination.
As for this article, the writer's choice of outcomes is depressing but the mention of "Every source of wealth has been raided and drained. Inflation is now more than 2 million per cent." is simply staggering. If I do my figures correctly, this means that an item that costs Z$1.00 on day 1 costs Z$54.79 THE VERY NEXT DAY. A mere one week later, that item will cost the completely irrational figure of Z$1,483,064,087,140.33 if you can buy it at all. Yet this 'great leader', who probably has sufficient wealth out-of-country to live comfortably (with an army of bodyguards) still has non-beholding people ready to vote for him. Whatever happened to cause and effect?
Preview of coming attractions.
Why would we (the UK) intervene? That’s a losing strategy - Mugabe would just claim he’d been right all along - that all Zimbabwe’s problems had been orchestrated by Britain as a prelude to recolonization.
Zimbabwe is going to have to depopulate (by migration hopefully). Otherwise no-one learns anything. You really have to shove people’s faces in it sometimes.
Zimbabwe will be recolonized, but the EU countries have lost their taste for that sort of thing. This time, the colonial power will be China. And this time, there will be no screwing around.
I’ve often said the only country that can straighten Africa out is China. Simply because they just don’t put up with anything. The rules are the rules and if you don’t like them, you get a 30 second trial and execution.
Murderous thugs in Africa will only come to heel under a force as strong-willed - and better trained and equipped - than they are. And in the current world, that comes down to China.
True, and the Chinese have the great advantage of not being white so the MSM will give them a free pass.
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