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Zimbabwe descends into darker times

June 24, 2005 on 9:37 am |
Categories: general, human rights, politics, zimbabwe
Tags: general, human rights, politics, repression, robert-mugabe, tyranny, zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is getting worse. Much worse.

Exhibit #1:

If you had any reason to doubt that Robert Mugabe, the dictator of Zimbabwe, is a malign thug, here’s more proof: a before-and-after pair of satellite photos showing the destruction of a two-million-person shantytown on the outskirts of Harare.

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(Thanks, Toni!)

(Via Boing Boing.)

Exhibit #2:

Mugabe Begins the Genocide

VIDEO OF FARM SEIZURES IN 2000 HERE.

Interesting how the fears of these people played out.

With a program called “Drive out the Trash” you get a sense of how President Mugabe feels about certain Zimbabweans. And, when the government destroys their homes, destroys their means of earning a living, and destroys their food, in a country already threatened with famine,… only time separates these people from certain death.

The genocide has begun in Zimbabwe.

The United Nations estimates up to 1.5 million people are homeless.

Three children left with only a drum after soldiers destroyed their family’s home in Zimbabwe. Mugabe has displaced nearly one tenth of the population of Zimbabwe.

A police spokesman says that the government is already seeing results since their planned destruction of homes in Zimbabwe:

More than 42,000 people had been arrested or had their goods seized as Zimbabwe pressed ahead with a crackdown on shanty-towns that has sparked worldwide condemnation.

(Via Gateway Pundit.)