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Zimbabwe Defies EU Diplomat but Denies Visa Revoked --[Except] Zimbabwe is under growing international pressure and approved 30 other EU monitoring team members on Thursday.

But it has pointedly failed to invite representatives from Britain and five other EU countries -- Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden -- which have criticized Mugabe over human rights and the seizure of white-owned farms.

South Africa, the biggest regional power, has also sent a monitoring team. It urged the EU to accept Zimbabwe's ban on Schori so it could keep the rest of its team there.

"They shouldn't fight a battle on the issue of a leader or not a leader. The issue is quite simple: Are they going to be able to put in observers to observe?" South African Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad told reporters in Cape Town.

The Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity, Amara Essy, adopted a harsher tone toward the Europeans, saying that Africans could look after their own.

"Really I am not happy to see foreigners coming to look at what we are doing. They do not ask us to go to the United States to see what is happening," he said in Lusaka. [End Excerpt]

Very sharp posting. The devils are loose in Zimbabwe, and the government's message to white farmers is simple - Give up your land and get out before we kill all of you. I'm old enough to remember when the liberal western press denounced Ian Smith's Rhodesia as a racist, fascist oppressor and predicted utopia under the enlightened "Dr." Mugabe. Now that utopia has arrived, nothing but silence from these bozos. South Africa is fast going down the same road. And the ones who suffer most are Black Africans themselves - they have nowhere else to run to.

"The Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity, Amara Essy, adopted a harsher tone toward the Europeans, saying that Africans could look after their own."

We'll have to remember Mr. Essy's little comment when Zimbabwe and our own pathetic liberals are clammoring for the U.S. to bail them out with our food and money!