Monday, June 20, 2005

Mugabe hits out at the rich

The one man human rights disaster that is known as Robert Mugabe has had enough with bullying poor people and decided to hit the few rich people that remain in the now bankrupt and poverty stricken Zimbabwe. Over the last couple of weeks Zimbabwean security forces have bulldozed the homes of around 200,000 poor people, leaving them homeless. They cite planning regulations as an excuse, everyone else says it's because it was mainly the urban Zimbabweans that voted against Mugabe in the election.

Now they've decided to go after the wealthy people, moving their bulldozers into the northern suburbs of Harare. The government says it will be moving against houses that have been turned into offices without permission. It blames the black market and these unaothorised offices for the decimation of the Zimbabwean economy, rather than Mugabe's dictatorial and despotic rule.

Zimbabwe was once known as the bread basket of Africa but now it has to import food and aid. This is as a result of Mugabe's actions in seizing farms from white owners and handing them over to black Zimbabweans who then left them lying fallow because they didn't know how to farm them. This is the reason why Zimbabwe is in such bad shape.

The British government has responded to what it describes as human rights abuses and a man made disaster by telling the British Ambassador in Harare to tell the Zimbabwean government that we're not happy and they should stop. Mugabe must be quaking in his boots.