Aaaah, that's right. Diversionary doo-doo for the masses.
AmeriKa's War Dailies love wasting the time on "elections."
I wonder why....
"Opposition leader returns; Will campaign in Zimbabwe's runoff election"
JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwe's opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, who fled his homeland after winning the most votes in a presidential contest because of fears he would be assassinated, returned yesterday to Harare to campaign in the June 27 runoff against the incumbent, Robert Mugabe....
Tsvangirai... ended more than six weeks of self-imposed exile at a moment when state-sponsored violence against his supporters and party workers is growing and becoming even more deadly, according to opposition officials.
As Mugabe's government, in power for 28 years, mobilizes the police, the army, and thugs in what human rights groups call a systematic campaign of retribution against the opposition, the number of injured has risen to more than 1,700, almost doubling in the past two weeks.
The opposition party says that 43 of its supporters have been slain since the March election....
And that didn't get the same coverage as the elections did, did it?
I'm tired of it all, readers.
But even if he wins the runoff, Tsvangirai said he has no illusions that Zimbabwe's crisis would end. The so-called "securocrats," the heads of Zimbabwe's military and police, have vowed they would never salute a President Tsvangirai, and fears are mounting that they will greet his victory with a coup....
The International Crisis Group, a nonprofit group that seeks to prevent conflicts, argued in a recent report that the governing party had what it called "a near stranglehold" on the military and the state institutions, and that the opposition would need its cooperation to govern effectively.
Tsvangirai said his party had offered assurances to the securocrats that they would not be prosecuted for crimes against humanity and that they would be allowed to keep land they had been given in their retirement packages...."
Yeah, war criminals can just retire to the ranch.
Hey, that sounds like AmeriKa!!!!!!
"by Associated Press | May 25, 2008
JOHANNESBURG - A soldier helping police quell violence against foreigners in South Africa shot and killed a man who was attacking a woman, the military said yesterday, as hundreds more immigrants fled the country.
Police also fired rubber bullets to disperse crowds as sporadic violence and looting were reported across the country in the latest disturbances, which have left at least 42 people dead and more than 25,000 foreigners displaced this month.
Much of the violence is fueled by resentment of immigrants competing for scarce jobs and housing. Others blame foreigners for crime. Seeking to calm the unrest, President Thabo Mbeki called in the army on Wednesday for the first time since the end of apartheid in 1994 to aid police.
Mbeki condemned the violence, saying that "there can never, ever be justification for criminal, violent activity against anyone."
On Friday night, soldiers supporting police east of Johannesburg saw a man assaulting a woman, Brigadier General Kwena Mangope said. As they approached, the man pointed a gun at the soldier, who then shot the man, Mangope said.
It was not clear whether the assault on the woman was related to the recent violence against foreigners or was a domestic dispute.
Charles Nqakula, the nation's safety and security minister, acknowledged last week that putting soldiers on the streets was sensitive since they were trained to kill, not to enforce the law. He said they would only support police, who have made more than 500 arrests linked to the anti-foreigner violence.
His spokesman said yesterday he had no immediate comment on the killing by a soldier.
The center of the violence has been the country's smallest but richest province of Gauteng, which includes Johannesburg.
Gauteng provincial police said there were a number of minor incidents overnight in the province's East Rand area, which has seen the worst of the violence. Police used rubber bullets to disperse crowds. No deaths were reported.
By Friday, violence had spread to at least seven of the country's nine provinces as well as the popular tourist destinations of Cape Town and Durban. About 200 people have been arrested, while about 1,200 people had been displaced in Cape Town, police said.
Thousands of displaced people remained in camps, and foreigners were streaming back to their home countries."As the situation worsens, the coverage becomes less?
And where are Sudan or Somalia in today's papers?
I mean, every time Sudan comes up we are beaten over the head with the inaction on genocide.
Last year at this time I wrote a post titled "Silent Horn of Africa."
It had a bunch of MSM stories and posts on Somalia and Ethiopia. Some Chinese oil workers had been abducted at that time, I do believe. I had grandiose plans to repost so may things, but I'm tired of thumbing through MSM garbage.
I may disappoint you today, readers, as I am simply tired of the MSM and there are better stories on the blogs.
Reading AmeriKa's MSM reports or watching their "news" programs is painful to me now.
