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Zimbabwe Starves People, Declines Aid

Few articles have provoked me more than this one. Zimbabwe was once looked upon as the bread basket of Europe because it exported food to its neighbors. However, land reforms by the "elected" Marxist President Robert (election fraud) Mugabe have led to a complete demise of the country's agricultural industry. At best, according to Agriculture Minister Joseph Made, only one-fourth of the available farm land is producing crops. The obvious consequence of the government redistribution program, which included burning crops and killing cattle, is starvation.

The Zimbabwean government blames the food shortage on drought. What's worse, despite well known food shortages that are documented by the media, the government has told international food aid agencies that it required no aid as "it had produced in excess of its national requirements."

Mugabe's government reports the draught has caused famine but no aid is necessary because famine doesn't exist!

The liberation of Zimbabwe includes more than destroying the food supply and starving the people. Mugabe is aggressively increasing his power and removing freedoms from the people. A law passed this month, places nongovernmental groups, churches and charities under state control and another imposes prison sentences for "materially false" statements or writings that impugn the state. The freedom of speech has been obliterated, Christian Pastors have been arrested and independent journalists are harassed. - Houston Chronicle, Clear and Present

We often talk about the price of freedom related to both the American revolution and the liberation of Iraq. However, slavery to a tyrant, such as Mugabe, extracts a far greater price than the fight for freedom.

Posted by tim at December 27, 2004 1:02 AM

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