Damn that right-wing Mugabe.
Wait? What's that you said? He's a former Marxist and Soviet supporting Leftist whose biggest fan is Venezuala's Hugo Chavez? That's not possible! Only the Right is so cruel and uncaring and evil towards the poor! The Left have never been a part of atrocities like this!
*all sarcasm intentional*
"residents should return to the rural areas"
Not Mao, Pol Pot.
With this on his record, Mugabe will probably get Humanitarian of the Year at the U.N., if they hand out such awards.
Posted at 2006-06-01 07:36:33 [PermaLink]sooo much better there now than when it was Rhodesia eh? Where are the left wing pinheads protesting in the streets about this?
Posted at 2006-06-01 08:01:42 [PermaLink]Let's see how long it takes for Zimbabwe to be appointed to the new UN Human Rights Council.
Posted at 2006-06-01 08:22:46 [PermaLink]You know, it is we who put Mugabe in power back in 1980.
I can remember the hoopla of "liberation". Bobby Mugabe was the toast of the town with invitations to the Whitehouse, Buckingham Palace and every major European capital. And I admit that at the time I too admired Mugabe.
Ian Smith, on the other hand, was portrayed as an evil dastardly Hitler exploiting and oppressing the Blacks and stealing their traditional farmlands. Boo! Hiss!
And the term "Rhodesia" just had to go as well. It was racist and white.
So we've atoned for our colonialist sins and atrocities, but we've done so on the backs of the dead Africans in "Mugabeland".
In our foolish, headlong rush to sooth the pangs of post-colonialist guilt we ended up installing a vicious dictator in a position of absolute power.
Now I REALLY feel guilty!
In fairness, some reports suggest that Robert Mugabe might only have gone insane from syphilis in the last few years and that this was not inevitable or predicted at the time. Or other things like that.
It's incredibly sad that, yes, the poor blacks of Zimbabwe were materially better off under Ian Smith and Rhodesia.