Now as a person living in rip-off Britain,why am I so bothered about Zimbabwe?Well firstly,it's all the talk and no action of basically the so called free world for weeks there have been murders and wide spread intimidation of any one suspected of god forbid voting against mgabe.Not only has mgabe broken his own constitution he has used violence and threats toget himself elected past the 30 days it says in his own laws.So he has not only broken his own laws he has broken humanitarian law,you cannot starve beat and murder and get away with it,so why i mgabe allowed last month to Rome for a meeting about food/aid etc,when he has done more than anybody to starve his own people into submission,I just don't get it,why wasn't he arrested as soon as he touched down in europe?He is a genocidal sociopath who is all smiles but is killing his way to an election victory.Not only that he also displaces people suspected of voting for the opposition so they can't vote.
What does the UN do? has talks about talking about what they may do after the talks,yes the situation has been getting bad for months and only now do we have talks to find out what the talking may do in the way of things they have yet to talk about,sounds like another darfur and thats been going on for years the genocide plus the UN talking about it.In South Africa tarbo umbeki has started to realise he has to say something but like the UN it's only talk,and my one really sad thing is Nelson Mandela is eerily quiet,now i watched the live TV pictures as he was released and i had a party and i brought free Nelson Mandela by the specials and i even fund raised to help free him,i think next to malcolm x,marcus garvey,Martin Luther King Jr and muhammed ali he is a great man but he is a mgabe apoloist and as such must hang his head in shame.And it really hurts me to say that,but truth is truth,i would say that if Nelson Mandela said something against murdering mgabe even he might listen.
I understand Zimbabwe was a British ran country and i know there were a lot of white farmers but after 4 or 5 generations there aren't white or black zimbabweans there are only zimbabweans.Zimbabwe was once the bread basket of Africa now it can't even feed it's own people.Mgabe got rid of all the white farmers the same way he's getting rid of the opposition,murder, intimidation that time it was pure racism this time it's because people voted against him,which is a democratic right in most countries.
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technomist
- 2008-06-23 @ 23:34:32
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skip2468
- 2008-06-23 @ 23:56:41
Yes, and only high ranking UN and the like talk, talk, talk wont get very far. Action always speaks louder than words.
I could not believe a TV clip this morning that in Zimbabwe a bought sandwich coats over FOUR MILLION ZIMBABWE DOLLARS. -
Its sad isn't it? I know its not all down to him, but the lies that Blair peddled to get us into Iraq have left the world more than reluctant to get engaged with intervening in Africa. People from Darfur to Harare are suffering, but no-one seems to have the appetite to get involved. Mandela is oddly mooted. There is a columnist in the Independent who suspects its a basic racism on his part: human rights abuses by whites are to be opposed, but when perpetrated by blacks then there is to be a code of silence and he'll shut up. Who knows the truth of it.
I was talking to some Zimbabweans on Saturday holding a vigil outside Zimbabwe House on the Strand. They have a petition going round to ask Mandela to state his potion and there will be a small demo by them on Friday 27th (Mandela is being fated on his birthday as a living Saint) to remind people of the situation.
On Friday 27th June they will be holding the Zimbabwe Vigil’s Mock Presidential Run-off from 10.00 am – 4.00 pm outside the Zimbabwe Embassy + a protest outside the South African High Commission from 1.00pm – 2.00 pm.
For the Mandela 90th Birthday Concert, also on Friday 27th June, at 4.00 pm in Hyde Park, Vigil supporters are to attend the event with banners reading “Speak out Mandela” and “What about Zimbabwe?” I don't know what else they can do from London, and feel very sorry for them.
http://www.zimvigil.co.uk/