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President Mugabe Threatens Whites in Zimbabwe
Yahoo! ^ | Dec 13, 2002 | ANGUS SHAW

Posted on 12/13/2002 4:41:36 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

President Robert Mugabe threatened retribution against the white population of Zimbabwe on Friday, suggesting they were working with Britain, the former colonial power, to sabotage his government.

Mugabe accused the British of leading an international campaign to isolate Zimbabwe and recruit support for his opponents inside his country.

"The more they work against us, the more they express hostility against us, the more negative we shall become to their kith and kin here," Mugabe said at the opening of his ruling party's annual convention.

The embattled Mugabe, however, did not refer to the nation's deepening economic crisis and a looming famine largely blamed on his party's policies.

In an 80-minute address, Mugabe railed against whites, Britain and its Western allies whom he accused of "nurturing enemies among us" by criticizing his party and supporting the main opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change.

"We are the type of people who, if you step on our foot, we fight back," said Mugabe.

Mugabe wore a baseball cap bearing the slogan "Chave Chimurenga," meaning "It is now war" in the local Shona language.

The white population in Zimbabwe stands at about 30,000 — less than 1 percent of the population.

More than double that number lived in the southern African country 2 1/2 years ago, before ruling party militants began a campaign to seize white-owned farms, sparking political and economic unrest.

Most whites are the descendants of colonial era British and South African settlers.

The government has repeatedly accused Western countries and local whites of funding the main opposition that narrowly lost presidential elections in March.

"They are the enemies of the people and our government. We must be on our guard. Our survival is an ongoing war," Mugabe told about 2,000 ruling party loyalists at the convention in the provincial town of Chinhoyi, 70 miles northwest of Harare.

In his one reference to the country's economic woes, he said gasoline shortages that have left most of Zimbabwe's gas stations dry would be discussed in a closed session by delegates.

Delegates cheered and danced as Mugabe walked to the podium, but their response to his address was uncharacteristically muted compared to previous years.

Some laughed when Philip Chiyangwa, ruling party lawmaker for Chinhoyi, welcomed them to "Zimbabwe's bread basket."

Once known as southern Africa's bread basket, Zimbabwe now faces acute food shortages. The World Food Program says at least 6.7 million Zimbabweans, more than half the population, will need emergency food aid in coming months to avert mass starvation.

Mugabe says the food crisis on a drought earlier this year, while most analysts blames political violence and disruptions in the agriculture-based economy during the government's program to confiscate thousands of white-owned commercial farms that now lie virtually idle.

Mugabe on Thursday promised to enforce a widely abused government price freeze on most goods to slow record inflation, officially estimated at 144 percent but seen to be much higher.



TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: africawatch; communism; genocide; racewar
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To: Imal
...The Chain of Destruction rear(s) its ugly head: Identification, Ostracism, Confiscation, Concentration, and Annihilation.

That sums it up.

61 posted on 12/14/2002 8:02:33 AM PST by tsomer
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To: E Rocc
the Serbs were conducting themselves like Soviets.

How can you compare the Serbs - who were not exactly innocent, but still a helluva lot less guilty than their Bosnian Muslim adversaries - to the Soviet Union, an evil empire bent on world domination who we were at (cold) war with for 45 years? Helping Afghanistan fight the Soviets was completely justified, and hastened the end to the Cold War.

62 posted on 12/14/2002 8:10:25 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: LibWhacker
Imagine the reaction if a white leader somewhere in the world threatened a black minority population with violence

Why Jesse the pimp would lead his pack of Rainbow fraud artists onto every talk show in America screaming about racial genocide (I'm sure deep down inside he's thinking,' Yah! Mugabe! Payback time. Go Mugabe go!)

63 posted on 12/14/2002 9:18:55 AM PST by Lent
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To: Rye
Somebody needs to delve into Yugoslavian history. It was a little Soviet Union, a conglomerate hodge-podge under a Communist dictator, with plenty of mass murder under its belt.

Problem was that NATO intervention was put off way too long. If NATO had supervised the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1989 or so(during the first Bush administration), there would have been far fewer massacres, far fewer retaliatory massacres and no chance for radical Muslims to get a toe hold in Bosnia. Milosevic and the Serbs would of course had a cow, but who cares about them.

But we got the Clinton-Powell feud instead, where the person without the smarts wanted to do something and the person with them having a spiteful fit (this incident is a major reason why Powell should not be anywhere in or near power). So Clinton encouraged and looked the other way as radical Muslims rushed in to fill the void left by NATO and the United States.

And so now we have a truly permanent mess, just because the elder Bush would not help break up a country, Clinton did not have the guts to send Powell packing and because Clinton is fond of quick fixes (like letting the radical Muslims arm the Bosnian Muslims) instead of biting the bullet and doing it himself.

64 posted on 12/14/2002 9:21:32 AM PST by ExpandNATO
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Let us remember, the "US Gravy Train" is financed by working, productive Americans. Great cartoon!
65 posted on 12/14/2002 10:37:40 AM PST by bytesmith
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To: Tailgunner Joe
There's nothing wrong with Mugabe that can't be fixed from 200 yards away.
66 posted on 12/14/2002 11:43:36 AM PST by Mulder
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To: LibWhacker
You deserve to be robbed, murdered and beaten because you are white. This is the only way we can get past racism.
67 posted on 12/14/2002 11:56:23 AM PST by Godel
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Why the UN sanctions, aids, and abets this racist bigot is beyond comprehension. Breadbasket? Just like any other two-bit thug, he can steal the farms, but knows nothing about running or maintaining them.

The UN sanctions these types of men who rule in Africa today. The UN has sat by while racists and bigots destroyed their economies, starved their people, stole their opportunity for employment, and came to and maintain their power through terrorist tactics. They have destroyed or stole anything that remotely resembles peace and prosperity. Why aren't these types of men targets on a terrorist list along with bin Laden?

68 posted on 12/14/2002 1:41:16 PM PST by tomball
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To: tomball; Rye; bytesmith; knighthawk; Teacher317; dennisw; Man of the Right; Doctor Raoul; ...

69 posted on 12/14/2002 2:06:58 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
So much for ending Aparthied!Africa was better off before and this country now has no chance for recovery.We should not give any aid or assistance until they turn it back over to white control.
70 posted on 12/14/2002 2:17:41 PM PST by INSENSITIVE GUY
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Is that Jimmy "Hitler Hunzvi" Carter standing next to Mugabe?
71 posted on 12/14/2002 2:22:55 PM PST by dennisw
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Zimbabwe: another Liberals' success story (but I'll bet Barbra Streisand feels "good" about herself for backing the Communist government that is now disemboweling the country)...
72 posted on 12/14/2002 5:19:57 PM PST by pabianice
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Jimmy and his protege, sub-Saharan Africa's last genocidal nut case, Mubage.
73 posted on 12/14/2002 5:29:36 PM PST by Man of the Right
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To: ibbryn
there should be room in the US for 30,000 productive farmers forced out of their country by racist terrorists.

So they can be forced off the land here like in Klamath Falls. Rural Cleansing exists here too, just a bit more humane.

74 posted on 12/14/2002 9:54:20 PM PST by F-117A
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To: Tailgunner Joe
More news from the former Southern Rhodesia
75 posted on 12/14/2002 9:56:35 PM PST by F-117A
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Mugabe needs a wooden stake through his heart. He is literally sucking the lifes blood out of the country.

There's no way this can have a good ending as long as he's still around.

76 posted on 12/15/2002 12:49:28 PM PST by Bullish
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To: Rye
the Serbs were conducting themselves like Soviets.

How can you compare the Serbs - who were not exactly innocent, but still a helluva lot less guilty than their Bosnian Muslim adversaries - to the Soviet Union, an evil empire bent on world domination who we were at (cold) war with for 45 years? Helping Afghanistan fight the Soviets was completely justified, and hastened the end to the Cold War.

I'd differ that the Bosnian Muslims were more evil than the butchers of Srebrenica. The Serbs were like the Soviets (a traditional Serbian ally) in their constant desire for other people's territory. They seemed to be involved in every dispute in the area. Croats, Muslims, Albanians...they fought with just about everyone. By contrast, there was no fighting between the Slovenes and the Croats, despite border disputes, when they split from Yugoslavia.

-Eric

77 posted on 12/16/2002 4:54:18 AM PST by E Rocc
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