‘The free-falling wreck called Zimbabwe’
Jun 29th, 2008 at 7:19 am by Susie
Probably the best - and saddest - description of the horrors happening now in the African country:
JOHANNESBURG — Zimbabwe’s shattered opposition released its roll call of dead last week.
The list, e-mailed to the international media, was clearly prepared in haste. It contains the kind of typographical errors that arise, one imagines, from taking fast dictation. The language is as flat and terse as a small-town police report. Still, for the first time, people who died in Zimbabwe’s recent political agonies now have the dignity of being named.
The chilling details of these largely invisible murders—in which all but four of the 85 victims were members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, while most of the accused killers belong to President Robert Mugabe’s youth militias—are as good an elegy as any for the death of a democracy.
Was abducted and later found dead. That is the most common description of execution on the list.
Too bad they don’t have oil — then we’d come in to liberate them from that vicious dictator whose name The Decider doesn’t know.
Izquierdo, good point!
The opposition has been trying to win rigged elections for HOW many years now? And when they (arguably) manage a win, like a few months ago, look what Mugabe does with it.
They’re doing it wrong.
They needed to get some rumors going that “The Chinese will be drilling for oil in Zimbabwe! It’s all very hush-hush, so expect denials. But, you know, the Chinese *are* helping out Mugabe, so it all fits together.”