Mugabe's 'Democracy'
Words are deadly in today's Zimbabwe. "Winner," "recount," "treason" and "democracy" carry barbs and built-in explosives. Ordinary Zimbabweans are suffering at the hands of an authoritarian regime with no sense of proportion or timing, a dictatorship with no scruples.
First, we are being led to believe that my party, the Movement for Democratic Change, was not the winner of the March 29 election. The world is expected to believe that the results are not only inconclusive but also somehow wrong. According to Robert Mugabe's regime, "winner" means that the MDC has garnered votes to which it has no right and that his party lost out only through unfair means.… Seguir leyendo »