The Two Most Popular Question Being Asked In Zimbabwe
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in Begone I Say And Let Us Have Done With You | Contra Tyrannum | Robert Mugabe | Zimbabwe — Comments (3) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
"Where is it you said we are going? And what's with the handbasket?"
Morgan Tsvangirai, the challenger to Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, on Sunday pulled out of a presidential run-off and pleaded for international action to prevent "genocide" in his country.
"We can't ask the people to cast their vote on June 27 when that vote will cost their lives," Mr Tsvangirai told reporters in Harare, the capital. "We will no longer participate in this violent sham of an election."
It was for the United Nations to protect Zimbabweans, he added. Mr Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) says 70 of its supporters have been killed in pre-election violence and thousands more injured.
His withdrawal came after about 2,000 armed government supporters broke up an MDC election rally in Harare.
By withdrawing from Friday's scheduled head-to-head, a divided MDC has thrown down the gauntlet to Zimbabwe's neighbours.
How much does anyone want to bet that the gauntlet won't, in fact, be picked up by Zimbabwe's neighbors? And how much does anyone want to bet that despie the widespread and massive amounts of opposition to his rule and the defeat he suffered in the first round of voting, Robert Mugabe will likely remain in power?
Because, catastrophically, that seems to be where this sad, sorry story is heading.
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...Human Rights Council sometime in the next decade?
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Although I wont be happy until the Stars and Stripes flies over every capital...
On a serious note, what can be done? Obviously we aignt sending soldiers, although I think the british should (hey send the Rhodes family back down). I dont think its much of a stretch to say that Mugabe and his gangster regime has zero credibility to lead that nation. Doesnt Carl Icahn take badly run companies and fix em? Maybe he can be talked into it.
is a bullet. Which will, no doubt, start a new round of genocide.
Not one member of the US military should be sent to Zimbabwe, for any reason, at any time. If there's a problem, let the French and the Swiss solve it.
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