Friday, June 20, 2008

At last a few African leaders are waking up to the killing fields of Zimbabwe. No one has had the decency to speak the truth about Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe for more than two decades while he has destroyed the economy, murdered thousands of opposition supporters and shamelessly allowed his wife on shopping trips to Europe. Now he is helpless. He cannot allow anyone else to become President because he may be tried and hanged. Possibly he will be killed by his own coterie of murderers if he tries negotiating with the oppostion or tries to flee the country. Problem is that there can never be any adequate punishment for mass murder or genocide. After all you can hang a man only once so once he has killed one person he might as well kill as many as he likes since the punishment remains the same. So the people suffer. Trouble is that not one leader in Africa can chastise Mugabe because he can be accused of the same offences. Therefore, they have been taking refuge behind stupid excuses that it is an internal problem and that Mugabe is a resistance hero as if that gives him the right to murder. It is hard to understand how that continent can breed an army of butchers including Idi Amin, Charles Taylor, Omar Bashir and Mugabe to name a few. The list of honour will probably stretch to hundreds. Perhaps with murders, Aids and now famine Africa will one day become devoid of human beings.

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