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Robert Mugabe has been torturing and butchering for years, in a reign of terror which makes Saddam Hussein’s efforts look amateur by comparison. Yet, only now, after the attack and detainment of British and American diplomats by Mugabe’s henchmen, are voices raised in anger towards the murderous regime.
Whilst America described the attack on its diplomats as “Outrageous” with an assurance that it would be raised at The United Nations Security Council. David Milliband, British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, apparently concerned of saying anything that would feed more propaganda to Mugabe’s regime, said the incident gave us “A window into the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans, a window into lives that are marked sometimes by quite brutal intimidation, by torture and, in 53 cases documented in the last few weeks, by death.”
D’uh! Not weeks, matey. Try “years!” Of course, Zimbabwe would have been raised to the ground and Mugabe, swinging from a gibbet were Harare noted for oil rather than harassment.
Now, in the run up to the second round of presidential polls, scheduled for 27 June, Mugabe’s government not only continues a campaign of intimidation and brutality, with leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai being chivvied, abused, arrested and released without charge, but Mugabe’s regime, in charge of a 12 million poulation, a third of whom are starving to death, have now announced that they are banning all food aid distribution. And this after the murdering barstard Mugabe, was allowed to attend the food summit in Rome. What a joke.
So, just what heinous crime must Mugabe perpetrate before we take the action that we shouldn’t have taken in Iraq? Spit in George Bush’s pretzels? Shiit in Big Broon’s porridge? Or perhaps, discover good old ‘liquid gold’ shooting out from a gusher in the centre of Hwange National Park?As I recall, we (the UK) put him into power decades ago. We even knighted him. His correct title is “Sir Robert Mugabe”
He is behaving no worse than numerous other African politicians / despots have done or currently are doing.
How about we just leave him alone to get on with it, let him run his own country as he sees fit and focus instead on the UK’s problems???
@forumhostpb wrote:
As I recall, we (the UK) put him into power decades ago. We even knighted him. His correct title is “Sir Robert Mugabe”
He is behaving no worse than numerous other African politicians / despots have done or currently are doing.
How about we just leave him alone to get on with it, let him run his own country as he sees fit and focus instead on the UK’s problems???
You’re damn right, we DID put him into power decades ago (although in fact whilst made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Mugabe’s not at liberty to use the title “Sir”, merely use the letters KCB post nominally) and greased the palms and equipped the armies of many other despots – including Saddam Hussein – over the years.
I’m not actually arguing for our interference in Zimbabwean affairs so much as I’m appalled at the hypocrisy which allows Britain and America to hang Saddam Hussein and lay waste to Iraq under lesser – if any – provocation. And we all know why!
Thus, my question is more by way of a rhetorical rant, than begging a reply.
Whether Mugabe was ever a good man is debatable. But his badness is cumulative. He wasn’t perceived as being as bad in the early days of independent Zimbabwe as he is now.
Saddam Hussein specialised in active cruelty and barbarism, like having people fed into industrial shredders while the next victim was made to watch.
Mugabe has his bully boys too, but his biggest weapon is neglect – just cut people out of the inner circle and let them fade away.
He may be sen to be ”a bad lot’ now …. and all the liberals are throwing up their collective hands in horror at his antics.
This of course didn’t prevent him from being invited to the EU summit last week in Rome did it???
He had a marvellous Italian holiday, complete with excellent food and a luxury hotel to stay in. Mind you. all rulers / dictators of impoverished African countries somehow manage to live high on the hog whilst their population starves to death….., so no change there eh?
@bassingbourne55 wrote:
Whether Mugabe was ever a good man is debatable. But his badness is cumulative. He wasn’t perceived as being as bad in the early days of independent Zimbabwe as he is now.
Saddam Hussein specialised in active cruelty and barbarism, like having people fed into industrial shredders while the next victim was made to watch.
Mugabe has his bully boys too, but his biggest weapon is neglect – just cut people out of the inner circle and let them fade away.He had people fed into industrial shredders????? :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
Yes, his invitation to the EU summit was a joke as I stated earlier. A bad joke.
As for living high on the hog – it was ever thus – our own politicians aren’t so different as far as that’s concerned, and before anyone mithers on about no-one being left to starve in this country, try telling that to the pensioners who have to choose between food and heating.
To be entirely fair … there are few pensioners who are forced to make that choice these days – although it makes a good story.
Compare that with your average African country where the general populace doesn’t have a choice to make, They just starve to death or alternatively AIDS/HIV gets them. Of course it’s most important that the leaders have their fleets of limousines and bodyguards, their palaces, their state banquets every day …. oh and I nearly forgot – their hand made suits from Gieves & Hawkes.
Oh and yes Bat – Saddam Hussein really did feed people (or preside over it being done by his son Uday hHussein) into shredders whilst the next in line watched and waited their turn.
Mind you that is the Hi-Tech method. In African countries, they get a man to smash in the skull of another with a club and then a third one smashes in the skull of the second and so on until they are all dead.
Yes I know … what about the last man. He is either shot – or goes first the next day.
who cares if savage kills savage
I found a Mugabe trap on Ebay i’m just not sure peanut butter will attract him :?
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