Robert Mugabe is a war criminal & should be forced from "service" by fellow Africans. He is NOT a resistance hero & it has been many, many years since that could be said with a straight face. It's disgusting how South African "leaders" have done nothing. Botswana & a few other countries have had the guts to say aloud what should be done. But South Africa is the regional power that could really do something.
It dishonors Nelson Mandela to speak of Mugabe as the same sort of national hero.
Zimbabweans are more than half-starved, cold, & physically in no condition to have a huge uprising. This seems to elude many people who say, "Let the Zimbabweans get rid of him." Could you do that after years of starvation, cholera, general scavenging to try to stay alive? Beatings? NO, you could not, we guarantee it.
photograph from Zimbabwe unattributed but courtesy of IRIN Photo
photograph of children picking up food by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/Associated Press
Again. Please visit Enough Project for information on what you can do. Also Amnesty International. If you haven't heard about Zimbabwe's plight, then perhaps you haven't been listening or watching the real news for many years. Please go to BBC World News--it does a much better job than any American organization. (uncredited photograph of HIV/AIDS orphan in Domboshava, Zimbabwe courtesy of IRIN.)
