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March 25, 2003
Zimbabwe's descent into hunger
As the war in Iraq seizes the world's attention, there is another, worse crisis going on in Zimbabwe.
More than 7 million people face starvation, the BBC reports. The root cause? A fascistic president, Robert Mugabe, who would literally rather destroy his country than relinquish power, and who has shamelessly played the race card to delude his neighbors into silence.
I have to state in general I am turning increasingly sour on South African President Thabo Mbeki. He has claimed that the AIDS virus is not caused by HIV, dragged his feet on getting AIDS treatments out to the millions dying of the disease, and now he is effectively supporting Robert Mugabe's brutality. The promise and hope that greeted the end of apartheid is turning into a bitter disappointment.
Posted by Tyrone at March 25, 2003 04:50 PM