Thank you.
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"In 1987, after conducting a murderous campaign to crush the forces of a rival liberation hero, Joshua Nkomo, and the people of Matabeleland, the province that was Nkomo's base, Mugabe and Nkomo signed a unity accord that merged the two forces into a single party, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, or ZANU-PF, which still rules Zimbabwe.
Then why did UMass honor the guy when they knew he was a thug?
There is one major, imponderable difference now: The gruesome violence has been inflicted in the Internet age.
The photographic and video evidence of atrocities is online in real time: the women whose bottoms were beaten for so many hours they've turned deep purple; the men whose backs are pocked with burns from dribbled, burning plastic; the young boys and girls with broken legs and black eyes.
These images, more than anything else, have created a worldwide revulsion with Mugabe and an avalanche of denunciations from Western leaders and some African heads of state on a continent where many have been silent during Mugabe's pitiless decades in power.
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And probably why the West can't ignore it this time, hmmm?!
GO INTERNET!
Zimbabawe is so important (in fact, the only thing going on in Africa according to my Sunday Boston Globe) that it gets two articles (while the rest of the continent gets nothing)!!
Talk about PUSHING an AGENDA!
"Bush seeks more Zimbabwe penalties; Arms embargo, travel ban in plans" by Angus Shaw, Associated Press | June 29, 2008
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe came under threat of further sanctions yesterday as President Bush said the United States was working on new ways to punish longtime leader Robert Mugabe and his allies after the widely denounced presidential runoff election.
Earlier yesterday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the United States plans to introduce a UN resolution as early as next week seeking tough measures against Zimbabwe.
"We will press for strong action by the United Nations, including an arms embargo on Zimbabwe and travel ban on regime officials," Bush said in a statement issued while he spent the weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.
The United States has financial and travel sanctions in place against more than 170 citizens and entities with ties to Mugabe, White House spokesman Emily Lawrimore said. The Bush administration is considering punishing the government of Zimbabwe, as well as further restricting the travel and financial activities of Mugabe supporters, she said.
The European Union said it would not rule out imposing sanctions against "those responsible for the tragic events of recent months," according to an EU presidency statement.
Mugabe was expected to be sworn in before he leaves for tomorrow's African Union summit in Egypt, so he can attend as a reelected president.
African foreign ministers were meeting yesterday in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, ahead of tomorrow's general African Union summit. A Zimbabwe opposition leader asked the AU to send peacekeepers and dedicate a special envoy to help end the violence and political crisis in her country.
"Zimbabwe at the present moment is burning. It is on fire. What the African Union and the African leaders must do is save Zimbabwe before it is burnt beyond recognition," said the opposition's vice president, Thokozani Khupe.
Also yesterday, the international aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres said South Africa deported some 450 Zimbabweans overnight from a border detention center who were "fleeing instability and political violence.--MORE--"
Of course, I have no reason to not believe the behavior of Mugabe and his regime; however, I do have reason to distrust and doubt the lying, agenda-pushing Zionist-controlled War Daily that reports the "news."
