The Brussels-based International Crisis Group has the right take on how the United States and Europe should handle members of Zimbabwe’s government who travel abroad — they should be arrested and charged with crimes against humanity. A recent report by the ICG said, The EU and the US should use the International Convention Against Torture…
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Yet another example of just how pointless multilateral action with Europe is. As I noted awhile ago, the European Union imposed a travel ban on Zimbabwe officials as punishment for the government’s increasingly authoritarian ways. But they weren’t enforcing it. Zimbabwe officials were being allowed to travel to Europe to attend international conferences. So the…
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Late last week the United Nations confirmed what had been rumored for the past couple weeks — Zimbabwe has ordered Oxfam and Save the Children to stop distributing food aid in areas that Robert Mugabe’s ruling party believes are hotbeds of opposition support. In a Mail & Guardian (Johannesberg)
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In response to the increasingly dictatorial nature of the Zimbabwe regime, the European Union early this year enacted a number of sanctions against Zimbabwe, including a ban on travel by members of Zimbabwe’s government. But, of course, they didn’t mean it. This month Zimbabwe’s Trade Minister was allowed to travel to Brussels, Belgium — which…
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Former UN Ambassador Kenneth Adelman wrote a searing attack on the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. Adelman finds it a bit obscene for the UN to spend $55 million to talk about poverty while several million people are on the verge of starving due to said poverty (apparently the United Nations believes if…
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Glenn Reynolds links to an article speculating that Zimbabwe might be on the verge of heading down the same path that Idi Amin’s Uganda took. But the scary thing is that even without that sort of problem, the long term result of Robert Mugabe’s tyranny is going to be unbelievably high numbers of deaths in…
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Speaking of honesty, I was doing some research about Zimbabwe when I came across this press release from the Congressional Black Caucus about last year’s vote on a sanctions bill against Zimbabwe. The first paragraph didn’t make any sense to me, Yesterday, Members of the Congressional Black Caucus unanimosly voted in favor of the Zimbabwe…
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Last week I noted that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga) was the only (to my knowledge) national politician to stand up and defend Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe. In her statement opposing sanctions against Zimbabwe, McKinney defended Zimbabwe’s corrupt and rigged elections as commendable as compared to what she sees as the wholesale sellout of democracy over…
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Zimbabwe, as regular readers of this site are aware, is in the midst of famine due to the corrupt leadership of Robert Mugabe who has done everything from seizing land from white farmers, instituting strict censorship, fixing elections, etc. Indepundit has a brief snippet from a speech from Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) defending this despot,…
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Glenn Reynolds has an observation about Swaziland’s purchase of a $55 million jet . . . at the same time the UN is appealing for foreign aid to prevent famine in Swaziland. Here’s a handy chart of countries in Africa currently experiencing “food insecurity” along with a brief highlight of corruption in each country. For…