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Dictator of the year award
I don't see why the international community is so powerless in the case of Mugabe, the most current of a long line of despots and one with a tastefree clothes sense. If you saw someone in the High Street dressed like the picture below, you'd assume it was another 'care in the community' lost soul. He's a stain on Africa, and you'd think other African leaders would have been quick to sort him out. But no, not even South Africa, led by the ineffectual Thabo Mbeki, which could close down Zimbabwe today just by switching off the power, does nothing. A liberation warrior turns, over time, into a homegrown tyrant, who has stated no on will remove him from office except god. As god doesn't exist, this means he isn't going anywhere fast of his own volition. Yet it seems that however many he kills, African leaders have several blind eyes to turn. Perhaps they fear a precedent if they interfere in another country's affairs, making it possible they might suffer the same fate. But the people of Zimbabwe are asking them to intervene, so desperate are they for help to get rid of this mad old man who has ruined what was once Africa's bread basket, and which is now a demoralised country on the brink of total ruin. Of course Mugabe is clinging to power because all the while he is in command, he can't be brought before the criminal court in The Hague for crimes against humanity [like Milosevic], so this is his only option to stay out of prison. And so the violence continues and will get worse until something is done. It's like Ruanda, a spiral of violence, out of control, with all the lowlife running riot and killing and beating arbitrarily, picking on rival politicians and their families. The rightful president of Zimbabwe is Morgan Tsvangerai, whose name is apparently impossible for media persons here to pronounce correctly. If it had been pronounced Changerai, it would have been spelled Changerai, but they insist on pronouncing it Changerai, as if Tsvang is far too difficult a sound to make. Yet we have ts, as with rats, and adding a van to that isn't difficult. The British are often like this with foreign names, it seems that the first stab at any unfamiliar word sets it in concrete and all after that must compound the offence. Foreigners often end up mispronouncing their own language because the Brits fail to recognise anything but their pronunciation! Think of Paris which is actually said Paree by the French, but which they happily say as ParIS just to humour the Brits. |
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