Robert Mugabe refuses to give up

After seeming to totter, Zimbabwe's president now looks determined to hang on by hook or by crook

Mr Mugabe is again playing the emotive land card, with the daily Herald newspaper, a government mouthpiece, fanning rumours that farms confiscated during the government's land reforms would be returned to white farmers if the opposition won. So-called war veterans, many of them too young to have fought in the country's independence war of the 1970s, have again invaded farms in an apparently orchestrated move to punish those believed to help the opposition. ... Full Story »

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Francis Scalzi
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by Francis Scalzi - Oct. 1, 2008

Very few Americans possess knowledge of the situation in Zimbabwe. Given such limited accounts in the brief stories in our US our press, this story seems quite a thorough and unbiased account of the pending disaster there. Imagine! A brutal 85 year old dictator unwillng to relinquish the reins of his corrupt government and now is setting his gangs of murdering roughs after the "opposition". Much blood will flow in Zimbabwe if this monster and his well paid followers are not first eliminated. There are times when vigorous and decisive action is called for, however brutal in itself; this is one one of them.

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