Zimbabwe's Problems Continue (RWC)

Someone who should be facing the hangman himself for crimes against his own people, but he is not, is Crazy Bob Mugabe, still in power in Zimbabwe.  He most recently has been trying to steal the national election and has been brutalizing the opposition.

He should be swinging from a rope for what he has done to his country and its people over the decades. 

Over the past months he has employed the same vicious methods of terrorizing political opponents.  He lost the recent election but he has busily been obfuscating the numbers, claiming the opposition didn’t receive a majority of 50% of the votes plus one.

He continues to hold on by the tips of his gnarly, 84 year old fingernails through aggressive fraud and violence.

The opposition movement, led by Morgan Tsvangirai, reports that 15 of its members have been murdered, 500 hospitalized and 3,000 driven from their homes since the election a month ago.

The UN Security Council is doing nothing,  in some great measure because Thabo Mbeki of South Africa wont speak out against Bob Mugabe in any meaningful way, and so protects him.

Mbeki actually said about Zim, there is “no crisis” there.  That was the same day that a leading opposition figure to Mugabe was murdered.

About the election, a South African representative said at the UN, “Well, it’s their country…” meaning outsiders should leave them alone. Some elections work well, others don’t, he said, or words to that effect.

I seem to remember not so long ago when South Africa’s opposition, the African National Congress, with enormous support from the West and particularly America, sitting on the moral high ground, wanted the rest of the world to rally behind them, and much of the world did.

So now they’re in power and they are saying, “Well, it’s their country…”

That moral high ground doesn’t seem so high anymore.

The EU, and this is a good thing, has endorsed a British proposal to force an arms embargo on Zimbabwe. 

You’ll recall that a few weeks ago that a boat load of rifles from China was stopped from being delivered to Mugabe.  Included were 3 million rounds of rifle ammunition, and thousands of mortar rounds and rocket grenades. Likely to be used in a mass slaughter.

But it wasn’t stopped by the South African authorities. When the boat docked in Durban, South Africa and was due to be off-loaded into trucks waiting at the docks for transport to land-locked Zimbabwe and the Mugabe government, the South African longshoremen’s union refused to unload it.  The Chinese jumped up and down but the dockworkers held firm,  Finally, its holds still full, the ship returned to China. 

Last summer, a former black Zimbabwean Archbishop told the Times of London that he thinks it would be “justified” for the British to invade Zimbabwe and yank Mugabe off his throne.

Archbishop Pius Ncube said, “I’m ready to lead the people, guns blazing, but the people (themselves) are not yet ready.”

When an archbishop starts talking about blazing guns you know Zimbabwe is ripe for an overthrow of its kleptocracy.