The scale of the Zimbabwe tragedy
Please don't miss Peter Oborne's magnificent piece on Zimbabwe in today's Daily Mail.
Peter has covered the tragedy of that country with necessary relentlessness and courage. His great fear is that the rest of us are forgetting Zimbabwe:
The world's attention has shifted away.
Now, with the focus no longer on him, Mugabe is free to continue this unprecedented campaign of electoral cleansing.
For the past week, having slipped into Zimbabwe as a businessman, I have seen the relentless increase in intimidation from government forces.
I can report that every day it is reaching a new level of intensity, sweeping like a killer virus through the country.
Even by Mugabe's standards, the scale and brutality is horrifying.
He is right. Our attention mustn't wander until Mugabe and his thugs are gone.
It was good, this has disappeared from the headlines.
The best place to track what's happening is the Civil Society non-violent group Sokwanele [www.sokwanele.com/]
Posted by: paul canning | 15 May 2008 18:34:06
eww thats gross never hope i see it again
Posted by: nic girft | 11 Dec 2008 18:58:04
Mugabe is only the puppet held on strings by his army generals and police chiefs. They are the ones ruling Zimbabwe, and who are really responsible for keeping him in power. They know their heads will roll once another political party takes over. Mugabe eats his food out of their hands. The ANC is quiet. Zimbabwe is their testbed to see what the West will do as they plan the same policies
Posted by: James Best | 12 Dec 2008 22:39:02
The world's attention has shifted away.
Beautiful statement and an unfortunate reality that stems from the ethnocentricity of some brands Western media.
Posted by: | 22 Dec 2008 08:31:24