Now that it's such a disaster, they're beginning to go in to report on the gore.
At the end of the meeting of Commonwealth leaders, an apparent compromise was reached to avoid immediately suspending Zimbabwe from the organization and imposing punitive sanctions against Robert Mugabe, the country's President, for human rights abuses and alleged vote-rigging.
However, the common front fell apart almost immediately. "We have postponed the day of judgment on Zimbabwe and I think that is the wrong thing to do," said Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister. "We should have provided a far stronger statement and backed it up with action."[End Excerpt]