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Starving In Zimbabwe 'Amounts To Genocide'
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 8-21-2007 | Sebastien Berger

Posted on 08/20/2007 8:29:12 PM PDT by blam

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1 posted on 08/20/2007 8:29:14 PM PDT by blam
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To: Clive

Zim Ping.


2 posted on 08/20/2007 8:31:01 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: blam

No mention of Zimbabwe’s Platinum and mineral wealth, funneled through Mugabe’s personal accounts?

He has more impoverished Africans in his country than he knows what to do with.


3 posted on 08/20/2007 8:33:29 PM PDT by Sundog (It's a good day for a catharsis.)
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To: blam

where’s bono and gates?


4 posted on 08/20/2007 8:35:19 PM PDT by ken21 (28 yrs +2 families = banana republic junta. si.)
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To: blam
"Democracy takes a beating as police assault demonstrators seeking a new constitution"

Kill Mugabe and his thugs and that is possible, no way else. Africa and the rest of the world have turned their backs on Zimbabwe.

5 posted on 08/20/2007 8:41:39 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: blam

Somebody is making big money off all the starvation.
Who?


6 posted on 08/20/2007 8:44:49 PM PDT by sarasmom (Hunter-Thompson 2008 . It satisfies the senses on multidimensional levels .)
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To: ken21
where’s bono and gates?

Bill Gates never positioned himself as the greatest human being that ever walked the earth. "Bono Vox" (in fact, his singing voice is very mediocre) is too busy building an image of a Nobel-Prize-nominated activist to actually accomplish anything. Meanwhile, Bobby Mugabe runs amok getting away with murder (1st degree, I don't use that term lightly here) while the world shrugs.

7 posted on 08/20/2007 8:46:03 PM PDT by Freedom_no_exceptions (No actual, intended, or imminent victim = no crime. No exceptions.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Neighbours laud Mugabe at summit of African leaders - 17 Aug 2007 - SOUTHERN Africa's political leaders rallied round Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, and publicly lauded the man who has brought his country to the brink of total collapse as a hero. Mr Mugabe was greeted with cheers, applause, dancing and laughter from fellow dignitaries when he arrived in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, for the two-day summit of leaders of the 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC). Mr Mugabe, 83, smiled broadly as he acknowledged the rapturous welcome.

...Zimbabwe's combative justice minister, Patrick Chinamasa, accompanying Mr Mugabe, said: "There are no political reforms necessary in my country. We are a democracy like any other democracy in the world." Human rights organisations say all Zimbabwean parliamentary and presidential elections since 200 have been heavily rigged, but the justice minister said: "We have a most efficient electoral system. I can't see how a system can be more transparent or any fairer." As Mr Chinamasa spoke, reports surfaced that a 15-year-old boy and a security guard were crushed to death as hordes of shoppers had tried to buy scarce sugar in Zimbabwe's second city of Bulawayo.


8 posted on 08/20/2007 8:46:23 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Summit of African leaders? More like a meeting of the Mafia Commission.


9 posted on 08/20/2007 8:48:44 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Just a difference of emphasis, between the two.


10 posted on 08/20/2007 8:51:05 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: sarasmom

Mugabe and his pals.


11 posted on 08/20/2007 8:51:39 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

Not big enough pockets.
Who else?


12 posted on 08/20/2007 9:04:43 PM PDT by sarasmom (Hunter-Thompson 2008 . It satisfies the senses on multidimensional levels .)
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To: blam
Perhaps if Mugabe the racist hadn't stole all the land from the white farmers, Zimbabwe would still be Africa's bread basket today.

As long as Mugabe remains Kofee Annans pal and receiving support from the UN, nothing will change. It's pointless to send aid to that place until Mugabe is swinging from the end of a rope and a proper government is formed, and the UN kicked out.

13 posted on 08/20/2007 9:30:35 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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Wow! you called Mugabe a racist. That’s got to sting. (sarc.)

Mugabe and his fellow Africans have not been reduced to stealing food from monkeys, it is merely the monkeys willfully rising up to charitably provide for their ignorant socialist charges in their moment of need.

Is it just me or would others also realize as they were plotting how to steal a morsel of food from a monkey, that our socialist system is just not performing as well as the capitalist system in America.

Thank heavens those black Africans are starving now and not eating the humbling spread from their white capitalist bosses farms.

It sounds like it is time for Mugabe to kill off anybody with an education and send the older folks who remember better times to reeducation camps where they can learn how socialism saved them from their former exploitation.

I can’t wait for the Democrats to bring the joys of socialism here.

14 posted on 08/20/2007 10:44:25 PM PDT by ME-262 (Nancy Pelosi is known to the state of CA to render Viagra ineffective causing reproductive harm.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
SOUTHERN Africa's political leaders rallied round Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, and publicly lauded the man who has brought his country to the brink of total collapse as a hero. Mr Mugabe was greeted with cheers, applause, dancing and laughter from fellow dignitaries when he arrived in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, for the two-day summit of leaders of the 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC).

Astonishing. Just astonishing.

So it seems rather official that there's no hope for any country on the African continent. Not in this generation, at least.

And all this despite having a large population of Christian believers.

15 posted on 08/20/2007 10:49:41 PM PDT by Luke Skyfreeper
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16 posted on 08/20/2007 10:57:47 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Sic Semper Tyrannis * U.Va. Engineering '09 * Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Democrat * Fred in 2008)
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17 posted on 08/21/2007 2:24:17 AM PDT by Clive
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To: Anti-Bubba182

At least Capone and his ilk provided things for the poor back in old Chicago.

But there’s no doubt Mugabe’s a crook and mass murderer in the Al Capone-Mafia tradition.

Now where’s Elliot Ness.


18 posted on 08/21/2007 3:41:54 AM PDT by Nextrush (Proudly uncommitted in the 2008 race for president for now)
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To: blam
IMO,this stopped being a black-white issue long ago.Zimbabwe's whites are long gone.They're either dead or in Canada or Australia.This is now a 100% black leadership systematically starving a 100% black populace.

And yet it's still Tony Blair's fault.Just ask Mugabe...he'll tell you.

19 posted on 08/21/2007 7:52:46 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If martyrdom is so cool,why does Osama Obama go to such great lengths to avoid it?)
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To: blam
If Zanu-PF are happy with the notion of a vastly reduced economy with a powerful ruling elite living in a sea of poverty, then it is sustainable.

North Korea vs South Korea


20 posted on 08/21/2007 10:15:55 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (NY Times: "fake but accurate")
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