Saturday, June 25, 2005

Mugabe defends actions, Africa turns blind eye

Human Rights abuser, Robert Mugabe, has defended his actions in Operation Destroy the Opposition Restore Order saying that he was carrying out a pledge to "revitalise our cities and towns and to deliver as many as 1.2 million housing units and residential stands by the year 2008. We also undertook to reorganise our SMEs [small and medium business enterprises] so they could grow and expand in an environment that is supportive, clean and decent."

No mention of the 250,000 people they've made homeless, the people who've been forced to demolish their own homes at gunpoint or the people (including children) who have been killed inside their homes while they were being demolished.

The G8 countries have finally woken up to what's going on and the UK has been lobbying the South African government to use its influence to try and stop the criminal Mugabe. However, far from stepping in to try and prevent the deliberately engineered humanitarian disaster, the South African president has told the press how irritated he is at having the British government phoning him and asking him to do something.

With friends like these, who needs enemies?