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In Zimbabwe, a reign of terror
Boston Globe ^ | November 21, 2001 | Robert I. Rotberg

Posted on 11/21/2001 1:58:17 AM PST by sarcasm

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:03 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

WASHINGTON, LONDON, and Pretoria need to act now to save Zimbabwe and all of southern Africa from a desperate dictator's relentless mayhem. Like Idi Amin and other African despots before him, President Robert G. Mugabe is ruthlessly destroying his own, once rich land and spreading economic and social chaos into neighboring South Africa, Botswana, and Mozambique.


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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs
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To: one_particular_harbour
The sad part is is that a couple of generations ago, the whites of Rhodesia brought this on themselves

Exactly what clinton said about the 9-11 attack on America. You should engage in some introspection on that, my friend.

21 posted on 11/25/2001 5:26:55 AM PST by snopercod
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To: CWRWinger
There are no indiginous white people in Southern Africa.
22 posted on 11/25/2001 12:07:17 PM PST by AppyPappy
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To: AppyPappy
"There are no indiginous white people in Southern Africa"

I have read that there are no indiginous black people in Southern Africa.

Even if the blacks were indiginous to Southern Africa, how is it they allowed a white minority to take charge and develope two great nations?

23 posted on 11/26/2001 1:45:18 AM PST by CWRWinger
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To: sarcasm
Mbeki is helping Mugabe get weapons, sharing foreign aid to South Africa, now that appartheid is "dead".... you won't see the world rise up in disgust at this form of appartheid, that's for sure.
24 posted on 11/26/2001 1:50:02 AM PST by lavaroise
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To: CWRWinger
I have read that there are no indiginous black people in Southern Africa.

I find that impossible to believe considering the wealth of the land there. Why would they be everywhere else but there?

25 posted on 11/26/2001 4:35:20 AM PST by AppyPappy
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To: sarcasm
Zimbabwe court rules seizing of white-owned land legal and terror squads gearing up to assist Mugabe's next election.
26 posted on 12/14/2001 1:23:28 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: sarcasm
Mugabe is simply behaving as the Clinton/McCauliff led American Demomarxocratic Party behaves - but on a bit more dictatorial and openly violent scale. Give the USA a few more years of unopposed election fraud and we will follow Zimbabwe's path. The Marxists in Zimbabwe and South Africa and in the United States use the same terror, intimidation tactics which - if examined closely - mirror those of Communistic Reigns of TError regimes before them - in the old USSR, in Eastern Europe Communist countries, in Communist China, in N. Korea, in Castro's cuba, etc.

What follows Marxism in ANY COUNTRY where it gains power?

1. Starvation of the masses while the elite have all the food they can possibly desire. (Hillary wants very much to gain control of America's food sources, has said so recently, making this desire to appear to be "to be ready to stop bioterrorism of the food supply".)

2. Enforced "rule" by brute thug force against any and all opposition.

3. Massive military buildups (which are really aimed at keeping those who protect the dictator paid well and which also prepare military for invasions of neighboring countries should either with or without provocation)... while the masses starve.

It is insanity writ large - but it is an old old story - and yet America's Demarxocratic party will take us down the exact same route unless the full truth of its criminal actions is made public - the sooner the better.

27 posted on 12/14/2001 1:56:33 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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