Posted on 12/12/2008 4:12:24 PM PST by vikingd00d
Harare - While Zimbabwe's government was backtracking on President Robert Mugabe's denials about his country's cholera outbreak, one minister was accusing Britain of 'planting' the cholera in Zimbabwe's soil to achieve 'genocide.'
Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu also accused what he called 'gun-boat' Western media outlets of passing off photos of victims of conflict in other parts of Africa as Zimbabwean cholera victims.
'They take photos of people dying in the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Darfur (Sudan) and say these are cholera victims from Zimbabwe. CNN please stop those pictures,' he appealed.
Ndlovu was addressing a government press conferences on the causes of the devastating outbreak that has claimed 793 lives and infected over 16,000 people since August.
Although health experts blame the situation on the breakdown of water and sewerage systems, Ndlovu had another theory.
'The current cholera and anthrax were planted (during the colonial era) in various parts of Zimbabwe,' Ndlovu said. 'It is a genocidal attack on the people of Zimbabwe by the British still trying to fight for the recolonization of Zimbabwe,' he said.
'Cholera and anthrax stay in the soil and gestate over many years. Long after the war, the undeclared biological warfare still rages on,' the minister told journalists, several of whom laughed openly at his theory.
His remarks about anthrax come after a British charity sounded the alarm a few days ago over a spate of anthrax infections in humans who had eaten meat from infected cattle carcasses.
Ndlovu alleged that 'covert chemical war operatives' from Britain were currently in Zimbabwe to spread cholera and anthrax with a view to paving the way for a military invasion that would oust Mugabe and install the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in power.
President Robert Mugabe's regime has becoming jittery following calls by a string of world leaders for him to step down, or, in the case of some leaders, for him to be forced from office.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said earlier this week that the United Nations Security Council would meet next week to discuss further action against Mugabe's regime.
But according to Ndlovu, it was 'Gordon Brown (who) must be taken to the United States Security Council, for being a threat to world peace and for planting cholera and anthrax and for planning to invade our peaceful Zimbabwe.'
His remarks came as George Charamba, Mugabe's spokesman, rowed back somewhat on Mugabe's assertion Thursday that there was 'no cholera' in Zimbabwe.
The elderly leader was using 'sarcasm,' to highlight 'the absurdity' of what he called Western plans to invade Zimbabwe over the cholera situation, Charamba told the state-controlled Herald newspaper.
Declaring that UN agencies and state doctors 'had now arrested cholera,' Mugabe said: So now that there is no cholera, there is no reason for war any more. Let's tell them (Britain and the United States) that the cholera cause doesn't exist any more if it was cause for war.'
Mugabe's statement during a speech on Thursday caused widespread consternation as experts say that, particularly in Harare, the epicentre of the disease, the epidemic has shown little sign of abating.
From close to 600 a few days ago, the number of deaths from the water-borne disease shot up to 793, World Health Organization figures showed Friday. In neighbouring South Africa 11 people, mostly Zimbabweans, have died of cholera in the vicinity of a cramped border crossing.
Charamba expressed 'utter disgust and contempt' at the Western media's 'attempts to deliberately distort and misrepresent President Mugabe.'
Ndlovu went one further in accusing Western media outlets of 'Gestapo journalism,' naming the BBC, CNN and al-Jazeera broadcasters.
Ummmm......yes. They have nothing better to do.
Let's see what "soft power" can do against a worthless weak tyrant liked by no one. Then we can extrapolate how it might work against Iran.
Zimbabwe is where Obama and the democRATS are driving the USA.
But first, we've gotta go through the Chicago, California and European stages. That could take a while, say, about 6 years?
Why can’t someone just shoot that POS?
It's more rewarding than sitting around wondering why every society your people are in charge of have "dirt" listed as their staple foodstuff, import foreign aid as their only industry, and whose only exports are piracy and Ebola. Somebody else has to be at fault, and it might as well be da man, da white debils who build spacecraft, create civilizations, and speak of things you can't conceive like individual responsibility and legitimate children.
My guess is that in Zimb, only outlaws have guns.
One .22 ahort will kill any hog ever born.
Can't spare it. And frankly, I think the b*tch doesn't deserve a bullet. A bullet is an honor reserved for game and honorable enemies. He needs piano wire, slowly, while he kicks off his own shoes and messes his pants.
I seem to remember whites being driven out by Thugabee. Those that were running farms efficiently. The only thing being planted was food, until Thugabees goons showed up.
President Robert Mugabe's regime has becoming jittery following calls by a string of world leaders for him to step down, or, in the case of some leaders, for him to be forced from office
Sounds like Chavez. Create some diversion, give the people something external to fear.
Uh. Yes.
Zimbabwe: Cholera is genocide by UK ( CNN Didn’t blame bush!!! )
CNN | December 12th
Posted on 12/13/2008 2:36:42 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148094/posts
UK plotting to invade Zimbabwe: Mugabe spokesman
Reuters | Dec 7, 2008 | MacDonald Dzirutwe
Posted on 12/07/2008 9:36:35 AM PST by george76
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144484/posts
Out of food, Zimbabweans eating cow dung
CNA | December 11, 2008
Posted on 12/11/2008 10:52:52 AM PST by NYer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2146996/posts
Watching Zimbabwe die. From Cholera, Anthrax and Mugabe
Associated Content | 12/07/2008 | Bobby Tall Horse
Posted on 12/07/2008 12:53:08 PM PST by stillafreemind
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144561/posts
State of Emergency - The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe
may be spreading to other African nations.
National Review Online | December 04, 2008 | Roger Bate
Posted on 12/04/2008 10:48:50 PM PST by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143275/posts
-barf alert-
Respond to Zimbabwe crisis — JIMMY CARTER
AJC.com | December 2, 2008 | JIMMY CARTER
Posted on 12/02/2008 10:07:56 AM PST by Inappropriate Laughter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2141555/posts
-sock puppet alert / our next war-
Odinga Calls On African Leaders to Oust Mugabe
allafrica | 4 December 2008 | Alex Bell
Posted on 12/07/2008 5:42:26 AM PST by tomnbeverly
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144406/posts
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