With Christmas nigh and the international community looking the other way, Roy Bennett, the only white farmer MP in Zimbabwe’s opposition government, marks more than 40 days in prison. Sentenced to one year’s hard labour, Bennett’s already badly blistered from sunburn and covered in lice. The MP’s crime? Officially, it’s that he angrily pushed then apologized to Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa, who had most flagrantly insulted his family. Chinamasa had called Bennett’s father and grandfather "thieves and murderers" and told him he’d never be allowed to return to his farm, taken by Robert Mugabe’s treacherous ZANU-PF government. Fighting words, indeed...