On Jul 1, 2008, at 9:02 AM, do.rflex wrote:
Bullshit. Mugabe has been a tyrant and a killer since at least 1980. ---Mugabe rose to prominence in the 1960s as the Secretary general of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). For many years in the 60s and 70s Mugabe was a political prisoner in Rhodesia. His goal was to replace white minority-rule with one-party Marxist regime.[2] He left Rhodesia in 1976 to join the Zimbabwe Liberation Struggle (Rhodesian Bush War) from bases in Mozambique. The war ended in 1979; emerging from this conflict, Mugabe was hailed by Africans as a hero.[3][4] He won the general elections of 1980, the first in which the majority black Africans participated, amid reports of violent intimidation by the militant freedom fighters he now controlled. Mugabe then became the first Prime Minister of black-ruled Zimbabwe after calling for reconciliation between formerly warring parties, including the white people as well as rival parties. The early years of Mugabe's rule saw killings targeting the Ndebele tribe in the Matabeleland and Midlands areas of Zimbabwe. Since 1998 Mugabe's policies have increasingly elicited domestic and international denunciation. His government pursued a costly intervention in the Second Congo War, expropriated thousands of white-owned farms, printed hundreds of trillions of Zimbabwean dollars triggering hyperinflation,[5] and has been accused of harassing and intimidating political opponents, particularly members of the Movement for Democratic Change.[6] Zimbabwe's economy spiraled downward,[7] with food and oil shortages,[8] and with massive internal displacement[9] and emigration.[10] During this period Mugabe's policies have been denounced in the West and at home as racist against Zimbabwe's white minority. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe
I'll never forget a couple of years ago a picture I saw in the newspaper of a slain Brit. expat. farmer lying dead--with his Jack Russell Terrier who survived, cuddled up next to his masters dead body. Vigilantes, jealous of the white farmers went in and killed many of the farmers or forced them to flee with the idea to take over their farms and supposedly the money they were making. The people ended up being so uneducated they didn't even know how to operate the farms and now the farms have been taken over by ovegrowth. Such appalling ignorance.
