Classic dictatorship 101 methods usually induce famines to make the masses dependent on the state for food.
Thank you. Now I understand it. And many will starve to death in the process which will make for less mouths to feed. What a sicko, feral animal Mugabe is.
I actually had this explained to me by a lecturer who spends about 6 months in the third world every year. He's a flaming lefty, but semi-honest in that one point I remembered from him is that based on his research "There is no such thing as "famine" as we once understood it. We have plenty of food, It's simply a question of control and distribution of various food stuffs."
His research explained how time and again famines are "created" by regimes in the third world who seek to reward friends or punish enemies. It also makes the people dependent on gov't food distributions, which increases the power of whatever thug happens to be in charge. Thug gov't do the same with medicines and vaccines and education and jobs. By controling the peoples access to food, water and medicine, and livelihoods the regimes become the providers of the basic neccessities of the masses, and then the people literally cannot live with the direction party/junta/state. Frightening, and makes you thankful we live where we do.