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Mugabe Begins the Genocide

More than 42,000 people had been arrested or had their goods seized as Zimbabwe pressed ahead with a crackdown on shanty-towns that has sparked worldwide condemnation.

With a program called "Drive out the Trash" you get a sense of how President Mugabe feels about certain Zimbabweans. And, when the government destroys their homes, destroys their means of earning a living, and destroys their food, in a country already threatened with famine,... only time separates these people from certain death.

The genocide has begun in Zimbabwe. - Gateway Pundit

Norman Geras has a media wrap-up including the following quotes:

A woman sheltering in a local church courtyard gave birth hours after her home was torched and there lay the two day old baby, perched upon a pile of rags, like a discarded, broken doll. How long will this tiny creature survive? If she does what does the future hold in store for her?

The crackdown on urban farming - at a time of food shortages in Zimbabwe - is the latest escalation in the government's monthlong Operation Murambatsvina...

Youth militias dressed as riot police laughed last week as they smashed people's homes and livelihoods with bulldozers and sledgehammers. Many were concrete houses where people had lived for years. Markets that have stood since 1945 were razed. The owners watched as everything they had worked for was destroyed in the space of an hour.

Zimvigil, the UK based civil action group specializing in protesting that country's forced repatriation of Zimbabwean aslyum seekers, is encouraging it's supporters to boycott all things South African. The group is taking the stance to draw the attention of Thabo Mbeki who's perceived by many as having the capabilities to shut Mugabe down in hours. - Zimbabwean Pundit

Norman Gera concludes,

Mbeki, yes, but not just Mbeki. The whole world is a bystander while state criminality unfolds yet once more. As in Rwanda. As in Darfur. Is the UN security council in emergency sesssion? Are there tens of thousands of people protesting on the streets of the world's major cities? How is it possible to commend an international system, and a system of would-be law, which shows itself so repeatedly powerless to act when its most solemn pronouncements on human rights are blatantly disregarded?

HT: The Anchoress

Posted by tim at June 24, 2005 12:18 AM

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