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by SloshedAndVexed @ 2008-05-16 - 22:17:34

So much that's so grim in the news at the moment , especially re.  parts of Burma and China .
In yesterday's 'Mail a dispatch from Peter Oborne in Zimbabwe , reminding us of the increasingly alarming  campaign of murder and torture of anyone associated with , or suspected of supporting the opposition MDC party , perpetrated by Mugabe's Zanu-PF thugs .
Mugabe is determined to remain President at any cost , which it seems likely that  he will .
He knows that despite  the corrupt ballot-rigging he's so hated that he still lost the election .
For some reason he's supported by South African President Thabo Mbeki . And , I suspect , more passively ,  by Archbishop Tutu  .
And there's no oil , or strategic advantage there , so what does the U.S government care  ?
A 22 year old mother of two , seized  and viciously beaten across her buttocks with wooden poles for half an hour , then ordered to sit for two hours  on her terrible wounds , five of her close friends kicked to death , others unaccounted for : All because they were known to favour the MDC party .
Tens of thousands of Zimbabweans being beaten , tortured , murdered , deliberately  starved .
Anglican churches and their parishioners being targeted because they are presumed to be in league with the MDC .
Inflation running at 1000% at least .
Why the f--- will not other countries governments , including Zimbabwe's neighbours ,  make a concerted effort to get rid of  Mugabe  ? 

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shakeberryshakeberry [Member]
2008-05-17 @ 10:08

I've pondered this, but from what I can see, the country has nothing to offer the richer nations...i.e oil, so I suppose they are left to their own devices. The way things are at the moment, the politics behind everything is crazy, but seems none of the UN want to make an active stand.

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2008-05-17 @ 19:13

All I can think of is that poor woman. I don't understand why people have to be so cruel.
xx

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SloshedAndVexedSloshedAndVexed pro
2008-05-17 @ 23:14

Hi Ellen ,
No I do'nt understand either , and sorry for putting that in your mind , and I do'nt know what any of us can do , except perhaps contact our MP's , urging them to urge the PM to warn Mugabe against his sadistic demented lunacy , though whether that'd make any difference I do'nt know . .
- Love from Martin - xx- .

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