Robert Mugabe has banned rallies by the opposition MDC and has started confiscating ID cards from MDC supporters to stop them from accessing food aid and voting in the upcoming presidential election run-off.
Mugabe’s Hitler-mustachioed face grins down from election posters serving as a constant reminder, if anyone needed a reminder, that Mugabe is in power and intends to stay in power.
The UK and US have both kicked off after Zimbabwean police arrested and detained diplomats after stopping their convoy. One British diplomat in the convoy said that the police threatened to set fire to his car with him inside it.
Supporters of the MDC are being beaten, intimidated and starved. Morgan Tsvangirai, Mugabe’s opponent in the presidential election, was arrested on Wednesday and held for 8 hours. The army and police are actively supporting and campaigning for Mugabe and an armed pro-Mugabe militia that call themselves “the veterans” are carrying out beatings and murders and will be present in polling stations wearing police uniforms.
The result of the presidential election – if it actually happens – is a foregone conclusion. MDC supporters are being denied a vote either through having their ID cards confiscated, through being intimated or simply by being killed. Mugabe will steal the election and hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans will die.
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Mugabe is a spear-throwing pig-humper and the sooner the “civilised” world does something about him (id est: kill him) the better…
Word on Sky this morning is that the generals are actually pulling the strings in Zimbabwe. Which could mean any further “intervention” will be met militarily and that post-election (if it even takes place) we’re looking at another Burma – military government.
“… any further “intervention” will be met militarily …”
Some backwater banana state like Zimbabwe is hardly going to have any military to threaten the technology the forces of the Western world have.
Its just a shame that the average Zimbabwean is the wrong shade of brown, and they don’t have any oil. Otherwise Mugabe would have been worm-food a long time ago.
‘going to have any military to threaten the technology the forces of the Western world have’
Just like the Iraqis and Afghans?
Our super powerful military is only any good against another powerful military, it aint much cop against guerillas/insurgents
Jings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bobbo is a Knight of the Bath! (KCB), he got it in 1994
(all from wiki)
The generals were wiser on wars in africa than wars in the middle east – they told the blair government that intervention would result in something resembling Somalia. As Axel rightly points out, military might is no good in an insurgency.