Provocative piece in the Times UK about the current options for starving out Mugabe and Zanu-PF. When one considers the extreme levels of repression, the absolute lack of basic freedoms to anyone in an opposition group - or just not supporting Mugabe - it is simply atrocious that no coalition has come forth to intervene in any real, substantive way. Sending Zanu officials' kids home from Oxford is simply not enough.
Anyone who believed the world would not let Rwanda's frenzy of machete massacres be repeated is certainly feeling very, very disappointed right about now.... while the various heads of state, et al. who made that promise have had yet another layer of onion skin peeled back from their racist cores. If i were super naive, i might be asking, Why Baghdad but not Harare? yet we all know the answer to that one, not even worth bringing up except to note the rhetorical hypocrisy. At this point, the way forward without military force seems unclear, which is hard to digest since as a matter of principle i don't want to start touting military intervention as the best possible alternative. Someone out there got a better idea?
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