Commonwealth sees no progress in Zimbabwe

Reuters via SABC News ^ | June 30, 2002

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Don McKinnon, the Commonwealth Secretary-General, has expressed pessimism over prospects for change in Zimbabwe, which his group recently suspended in protest at alleged flaws in President Robert Mugabe's re-election.

"It is sad that nothing is improving in that nation," McKinnon says. "I am not at all hopeful that anything is going to change."

McKinnon, whose group of 54 mainly former British colonies suspended Zimbabwe for a year in March, said Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party was showing no sign of easing its pressure on the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

Nor was there any let up in the policy of seizing white-owned farms for black resettlement, he said. "On the contrary, there is a determination now to go on and take all the land."

About 3000 farmers, branded last week by Zimbabwean Agriculture Minister Joseph Made as "unrepentant racists and fascists", have been given until midnight tomorrow to stop working their farms and just over a month to leave.

McKinnon said international pressure was being ignored.

Despite its suspension of Zimbabwe for a year, the Commonwealth group has urged humanitarian aid for thousands of Zimbabweans aid groups say are facing starvation. The Commonwealth group includes 50 developing countries - 17 from Africa - among its 54 members. The group joins almost one third of the world's countries with 1,7 billion people.

Nearly 13 million people in six southern African countries are facing starvation later this year due to drought and flooding. - Reuters

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Where is Coffee and the UN? They must support their black brothers efforts in this deal!

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IT was our government that was the enabler for this disaster!!!! During the Carter and Clinton administrations, a policy to not oppose communist revolutionary movements was blatently undertaken. During the Carter years, it was more important to solve the pressing problems of killer rabbits and during the Clintoon years, it was more pressing to hire easy interns. Seriously though, Jimmy Carter's decimation, with the assistance of the Demosocialist Congress of the time, of our military-intelligence apparatus enabled all of this to happen. Regan and Bush Sr. elected to contain this problem in our own hemisphere. Then comes the Klintoon legacy. Since communism per se was allegedly defeated, Bubba saw no reason to oppose the expansion of "freedom movements" against allegedly tyranical govenments. And in Africa, as a payback to Jesse Jackson and the radical reverse racists of our country, and to satisfy the Eurosocialists who ran the U.N. all opposition to the black dictators who assumed power in South Africa and Zimbabwe was eliminated. Who cares if a half million die? Hell, it's a half world away and it would interfere with the intern pursuit. Plus we know that Rather would only give it 20 seconds during his newscast. Instead of analyzing the true nature of these "liberated" nations and their communist governments, the focus was placed on the oppressive nature of the racist financial world which prevented these corrupt regimes from getting more powerful. The U.S. let this happen. Now our tax dollars will feed the communists as usual. Instead of drawing a line in the sand, Bush is no better than Klintoon or Carter. We will no longer create embargos like those against Cuba. We will simply cowtow to the left, sell out to the U.N., and continue the worldwide socialization and creation of a U.N. government to manage every nation's affairs in the world; including our own country.