Sunday, December 02, 2007

ZIMBABWE BURNS TO THE GROUND

I saw an article written up in a UK paper (The Times) regarding the deterioration of Zimbabwe since the dictator Robert Mugabe began a campaign of terror on citizens of his country.

Robert Mugabe, as a democratically elected leader of Zimbabwe, undertook to restructure the country's economy by confiscating farmland from the white sector of the population in order to transfer property to blacks. By taking land from white farmers and giving it to blacks, he claimed that injustice of inequality of ownership would be resolved.

Many of the productive farmers of Zimbabwe were killed and most fled the country. The agricultural economy of the country collapsed. To add to this, Mugabe began using food distribution as a tool of political manipulation and soon people began starving and dying of malnutrition.

For a country that was exporting food up to the time of Mugabe's restructuring, it is a bitter irony to see the re-emergence of Marasmus and other diseases caused by deficiencies in basic nutrition.

For its part, the European Union, instead of calling Mugabe to the mat for the wholesale destruction of his own country, welcomed him to the European / African summit where his brutality has been downplayed and his policies legitimized. He used his platform there to call for Africans to become more unified in order to give Africa more pull on the international scene.

Hah...with a population starving to death, the dictator worries about his voice on the international scene. Wow.

The compelling story of the destruction of Zimbabwe should be a warning to the rest of us as to how swift the total annihilation of our societies can be at the hands of those promising us a secure future through governmental policy of taking what rightfully belongs to other people.

Zimbabweans voted for Mugabe who promised them a secure future through the confiscation of other people's property.

Their lives are now in shambles.....the future barely a thought in the daily struggle for survival.

(I saw this link through JudeoPundit)

Here is the link to article titled "The horror of a stricken nation waiting to die".

posted by Wild 3:02:00 PM |

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