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Robert Mugabe's disregard for democracy and human rights is shared to varying degrees by many of the leaders who have been urged to condemn him today at the African Union summit in Egypt. Publicly defenestrating Zimbabwe's self-declared president might create an uncomfortable precedent for them – and for this reason among others, is thus unlikely to happen.
Hosni Mubarak, veteran host of the meeting of the 53 AU countries, may be said to have set the standard to which others have fallen. He has been repeatedly returned as president with over 90% of the vote in effectively uncontested elections. Egypt's biggest political party, the Muslim Brotherhood, is banned.… Seguir leyendo »
How Bill Clinton brightens a room. Last week he dropped into town to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday. One minute he was hobnobbing with Elton John and Robert De Niro at a charity dinner – corporate tables a snip at £100,000 – the next he was seen leaving No 10 in what the fashion writer of The Times gushingly described as “a dazzling pistachio shirt, an eye-popping striped tie and a raffish summer jacket in dove grey, the season’s most fashionable shade”.
The only raincloud on our man of mode’s sunny horizon was Mandela’s pronouncement that Zimbabwe was suffering because of “a tragic failure of leadership”.… Seguir leyendo »
While Zimbabwe's obscene charade of a runoff election played itself out yesterday, foreign reaction still seemed stuck in two grooves: either Mugabe-bashing or hand-wringing. The former is well justified, after everything the Zimbabwean president has done over the past few months. But, however muscular the rhetoric, it will be no more effective in producing regime change than passive despair.
There is a third way. It goes beyond denunciation and punishment, though it involves bitter medicine. The only route that will avoid yet more bloodshed is a negotiated transition of power in which legal immunity and guarantees of safety are given to the very men who have been responsible for the violence of the past few months.… Seguir leyendo »
In politics as in our personal lives, just six words comprise one of the commonest falsehoods around. Those six words are: “It can't go on like this.” But it can. I've come to the melancholy conclusion that in Zimbabwe it must.
This weekend there will be voices in our Prime Minister's ear suggesting how in one bound he might cast off his dithering reputation. To help to broker the toppling of Robert Mugabe (they will whisper) might be just the sort of history-making that rescued Margaret Thatcher from doldrums at home, before Galtieri invaded the Falklands. In The Times this week Lord (Paddy) Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon suggested that intervention may become necessary.… Seguir leyendo »
Robert Mugabe está dejando en ridículo el intervencionismo de corte progresista. Se ha convertido en un regalo de los dioses para caricaturistas, políticos y comentaristas. Las elecciones de hoy en Zimbabue son un buen ejemplo de ello. En occidente lo retratan blandiendo palos chorreantes de sangre. Lo sacan de pie, en actitud de triunfo, sobre un montón de calaveras. Es un Bokassa copiado de un Idi Amin copiado de un Charles Taylor. Es uno de esos tipos que ya tenemos vistos de toda la vida, el epicentro africano de las tinieblas, monstruoso, bufonesco, grotesco y malvado. Si Gran Bretaña, por emplear la frase burlona de Kipling, fuera capaz en algún momento de «matar a Kruger con la boca», hace mucho tiempo que Mugabe estaría muerto.… Seguir leyendo »
Robert Mugabe is making a mockery of liberal interventionism. He has become God's gift to cartoonists, politicians and commentators. He is depicted wielding clubs dripping in blood. He stands triumphant over a pile of skulls. He is Bokassa out of Idi Amin out of Charles Taylor. He is that old familiar, the African heart of darkness, monstrous, buffoonish, grotesque and evil. If Britain, as Kipling jeered, were ever capable of "killing Kruger with your mouth", Mugabe would long be dead.
There is a sense in which Mugabe's hysterical anti-British analysis of his predicament is correct. His Zimbabwe is a creature of British imperialism and post-imperialism.… Seguir leyendo »
Whether you believe in him or not, it's time to give God a helping hand. Robert Mugabe, the Catholic mission school boy turned tyrant, says "only God" can remove him from power in Zimbabwe. In that case, I'm rooting for God. Go for it, Lord. (Silence on high. Damn.)
What we see in Zimbabwe today is naked political terror, orchestrated solely to extend the reign of a once legitimate but now illegitimate ruler who has led his people to a hell on earth. Destitution, murder, rape and mass beatings are the order of the day, and a so-called election this Friday which is now the barest sham.… Seguir leyendo »
In the course of the last few tumultuous months, I have often had cause to consider what it is that makes a country. I believe a country is the sum of its many parts, and that this is embodied in one thing: its people. The people of my country, Zimbabwe, have borne more than any people should bear. They have been burdened by the world's highest inflation rates, denied the basics of democracy, and are now suffering the worst form of intimidation and violence at the hand of a government purporting to be of and for the people. Zimbabwe will break if the world does not come to our aid.… Seguir leyendo »
In these last few weeks, the full nature of Robert Mugabe’s repressive regime in Zimbabwe has been cruelly exposed. With his increasingly brazen resort to torture and hit squads to terrorize his own people, Mr. Mugabe has crossed a moral line. Some United Nations lawyers now say there is enough evidence to charge him with crimes against humanity.
Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change and Mr. Mugabe’s opponent in Friday’s runoff presidential election, had little choice but to pull out of the race. (Mr. Tsvangirai has taken refuge in the Dutch embassy in Harare.) Proceeding with elections would have ensured the murder of even more of his supporters.… Seguir leyendo »
Morgan Tsvangirai's decision to pull out of Friday's presidential run-off is disappointing, but not entirely unexpected. Ever since the March 29 election and its bitterly contested results, opinion in Zimbabwe had been divided over whether or not the Movement for Democratic Change should be part of this second-round vote. Tsvangirai will be criticised for withdrawing, but his MDC was damned if it did, damned if it didn't.
The MDC's participation in the run-off would have made it harder to condemn the outcome, and Zanu-PF believed that MDC participation would effectively legitimise Mugabe.
But Tsvangirai's exit is a propaganda coup for Zanu-PF, which will portray Tsvangirai as weak and vacillating.… Seguir leyendo »
Maybe this time,” sang Lord Malloch-Brown on the Today programme yesterday. “Something's bound to begin. It's got to happen, happen sometime. Maybe this time I'll win.”
Well, all right, I am - like postmodernist scholars - decoding the metatext. What the Minister of State for Africa, Asia and the UN actually said was that the mood around the world had so turned against Robert Mugabe and his various cronies that their combined diplomatic effort would bring him down.
Till now, Lord Malloch-Brown allowed, there had only been a “fairly limited set of measures” taken against the Zimbabwean President. This was changing.… Seguir leyendo »
Robert Mugabe patted me on the knee as we sat in his favourite London hotel, his wife Grace recently in from one of her infamous shopping trips that put even Imelda Marcos to shame.
“I know you are not one of them, Peter; you are one of us,” he said, acknowledging me as a son of Africa with an antiapartheid record, including campaigning against Ian Smith’s racist white-minority regime, which had imprisoned him in the old Rhodesia.
My Foreign Office officials were delighted. So were his. After a period of bad relations, at last we have a basis for future dialogue, they said after our meeting in 1999, when I was Britain’s Africa minister.… Seguir leyendo »
In Johannesburg, Robert Mugabe was given a rousing welcome by Africans from across the continent. As he addressed the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, we ululated and sang his praises, and after his brief speech we gave him a standing ovation. He spoke of the wonderful work he had achieved in Zimbabwe with his "agrarian reforms" in a country where 70% of prime land had been owned by just 4,000 white farmers.
Here was an African leader who was prepared to redress the injustices of the past by giving land back to its rightful indigenous owners. Here was a government doing what our own was afraid to: dealing with the problems of inequitable distribution through one short, swift surgical action.… Seguir leyendo »
In less than two weeks the fate of the people of Zimbabwe will be determined by the result of a run-off presidential election. If Robert Mugabe is allowed to steal that election the tragedy will be complete. The scale of the catastrophe that Mugabe has precipitated in his country is almost unimaginable. In just ten years, life expectancy has plummeted from 61 years to less than 36 - the lowest in the world. The economy has disintegrated - inflation by the official measure stood at 164,900 per cent in April, unemployment is more than 80 per cent; the shops are empty, the health service has collapsed, the school system no longer functions and millions of Zimbabweans have fled.… Seguir leyendo »
The next three weeks in Zimbabwe will be the most traumatic in its history. Robert Mugabe has declared war on the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), NGOs and churches to reverse the electoral defeat he suffered in March. It is a war on unarmed people. Can he win it and what would victory mean?
Scenario one: When the votes are counted after a peaceful, well-organised and credible election on June 27, President Mugabe concedes defeat, congratulates Morgan Tsvangirai, hands over the reins of power and retires. Likelihood? Zero.
The official results of the election on March 29 did not give Mr Tsvangirai more than half the votes so there must be a run-off.… Seguir leyendo »
With an unerring sense of timing, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe arrived in Rome yesterday, thereby demonstrating the profound limitations of international diplomacy. Indeed, it's hard to think of any other single gesture that would so effectively reveal the ineffectiveness of international institutions in the conduct of human rights and food aid policy. Even someone standing atop the dome of St. Peter's, megaphone in hand, shouting, "The U.N. is useless! The E.U. is useless!" couldn't have clarified the matter more plainly.
For Mugabe is in Rome at the invitation of the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization, which is holding a conference on the international food crisis.… Seguir leyendo »
"Things on the ground," e-mailed a friend from a groaning Zimbabwe, "are absolutely shocking -- systematic violence, abductions, brutal murders. Hundreds of activists hospitalized, indeed starting to go possibly into the thousands." The military, he says, is "going village by village with lists of MDC [Movement for Democratic Change] activists, identifying them and then either abducting them or beating them to a pulp, leaving them for dead."
In late April, about the time this e-mail was written, President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa -- Zimbabwe's influential neighbor -- addressed a four-page letter to President Bush. Rather than coordinating strategy to end Zimbabwe's nightmare, Mbeki criticized the United States, in a text packed with exclamation points, for taking sides against President Robert Mugabe's government and disrespecting the views of the Zimbabwean people.… Seguir leyendo »
These days, as I watch Robert Mugabe tighten his 28-year-old stranglehold on Zimbabwe while the forces of opposition try to pry away his fingers, I can’t help thinking back to a conversation he and I once tried to have about T. S. Eliot, poetry and the month of April.
Let me explain.
At the time, nearly 30 years ago, Mr. Mugabe was an unknown leader of a guerrilla movement trying to overthrow white rule in what was then Rhodesia. I was a New York Times foreign correspondent covering Africa. And Rhodesia itself was a delusional outpost of colonial living in which many of the 270,000 whites appeared blissfully unaware of a war being pressed on behalf of the seven million blacks.… Seguir leyendo »
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 »
Zimbabweans have been here before. They vote, the opposition wins despite the pressures and threats to keep Zanu-PF in power, and Robert Mugabe brazenly fixes the figures to stay on and take his country to new depths of decline.
The three weeks since the election have seen the initiative swing back and forth between Zanu-PF and Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change. The MDC caught Zanu-PF off balance by swiftly producing its tally of results and claiming victory. Zimbabwe's rulers were clearly shocked that Mugabe took only four in 10 votes and appeared to have lost parliament for the first time since independence 28 years ago.… Seguir leyendo »
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