Today Mugabe's brownshirts came out and did their brutal best again.
Western leaders say Africa needs "to take the lead" in fixing it.
Mbeki of South Africa has been the chief enabler of Mugabe and shows no signs publicly of backing away from Mugabe.
When will this travesty end?????????
The "global community" is why Zimbabwe is in the shape it is now. They weren't satisfied to allow the whites who built the country run it. No, they had to endorse a crooked strong man because he was black. Well, tough nuggets. You got EXACTLY what you deserve.
Mugabe's General will take firm control when he dies. There is likely no hope. I say that as someone who has long hoped for improvement in Burma after 80% of the people voted those thugs out - when was that, 1990?
De-colonization in Africa was such a good idea, ay. Ending the evils of Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa worked a real treat. We sure showed ‘em how it’s done. And all that famine relief in Ethiopia and Somalia: we Live Aided ‘em good...
I think we in the West ought to leave Africa alone for a while: post-WW-II our judgment in what is best for that continent seems questionable at best: dodgy at least.
One thing that doesn’t help is their strong voice in the UN: that should cease immediately.
And the wife of Patson Chipiro (head of the opposition party in Mhondoro) had her hands and one of her feet chopped off, then she was locked in her hut and burned to death with a petrol bomb. Her husband returned home to find his three huts on fire and his wife dead. Mugabe and his thugs want to keep their power.
Wonder if it will get this bad in an upcoming US election?
Leave Africa alone. No more western blood should be shed on a continent which has spit constantly in the face of the West. None of our citizens should be sent to a continent that can’t get beyond petty tribalism.
Chrissie Matthews had no comment, but had to excuse himself to go to the loo.
Those of us who have followed this tragedy have concluded that it will most likely end when a coup is initiated by mid-level officers.
The Generals are too invested in the kleptocracy that is Zimbabwe.
Another scenario might be that Zimbabwe completely collapses, that its populace became refugees impacting a bordering nation, and threatening its stability. This scenario played out in Uganda and Tanzania in the 1970s, when Tanzania put an end to the regime in Uganda by invading it.
And yet, the BBC marvels at his "remarkable comeback":
“Peace has come to Zimbabwe...” - Stevie Wonder