[greyfoxx39]

For related threads with many good links click HERE

And HERE

Hat tips to jahoo and backhoe.

[greyfoxx39]

Zimbabwe Ping

[ColoCdn]

Thanks for this post.

[vaudine]

Could this be the "handwriting on the wall?"

Sounds terrifyingly familiar. Say one thing while doing another. These ideologues never stray from their original design.

vaudine

[Red Badger]

Obamugabe is copying his efforts...........

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

a keen student of Maoist economic and revolutionary philosophies

[philled]

Thanks for posting this.

[happygrl]

A few inside nuggets.

The original impetus for the massacres In Matebeleland was the disappearance of a group of tourists. Most likely they were killed by a rival faction of guerillas still in the bush, either as highwaymen, or in an effort to embarrass the government.

The Fifth brigade was sent in to find the tourists, and they instigated the massacres.

I can attest to the severe lowering of life expectancy there since I left 25 years ago.

Only a handful of the people that I knew then are still alive, yet they were mostly in their 20s and 30s, and some were children.

A majority likely died of AIDS, but cholera and other diseases of opportunuity killed others.

The country 25-30 years ago was truly a jewel.