Slouching Toward Genocide

Didymus Mutasa, head of Zimbabwe's secret police, quoted in the Weekly Standard: "We would be better off with only six million people, with our own people who support the liberation struggle."

Zimbabwe has ten million people (down from 13 million a few years ago). And they mey get to six million sooner than expected: in addition to bulldozing homes and businesses in the major cities, the Zimbabwean government is also preventing those left homeless from growing food.

I'm not sure what's worse: that a government is behaving like this, or that the world is standing by and letting it happen. Right now I'm thinking there's only one way Zimbabwe is not going to end up like Rwanda, Darfur or the Congo, and it involves Robert Mugabe's body hanging from a telephone pole.

Posted by damian at June 22, 2005 04:53 PM | TrackBack