Meanwhile in Zimbabwe..
The wife of a Zimbabwean opposition party member has been brutally murdered in what is being labelled as one the most grotesque atrocities yet committed by Robert Mugabe’s regime.Dadirai Chipiro, wife of Patson Chipiro who heads the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district, had a hand cut off as well as both of her feet before a petrol bomb was thrown through her window. daily mail
There are some of us who still remember Rwanda and the fact that African and Western governments stood by as the tribal tensions escalated to genocide have to ask what, if anything, we are prepared to do to stop Mugabe’s thugs.
In point of fact, in our post colonial cringe, the answer is not much. After all, interfering in the “internal affairs” of even the most disastrously failed state (viz. Burma) would be, at best, paternalistic, at worst imperialistic. So, rather than breach the core tenets of politically correct post colonial inaction we are likely to sit on the sidelines and let the tribalists have at it.
Post colonial thinkers will, no doubt, think this racist, but a bit of adult supervision might go some distance to preventing the acceleration of a political genocide in Zimbabwe.
Written by jay on June 13th, 2008 with
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WL Mackenzie Redux
#1. June 13th, 2008, at 3:36 PM.
We (you know, the good guys) could send a couple of thousand paratroopers to arrest Mugabe and spirit him off to the Hague - but then what? Scandinavian-style social democracy, perhaps? There was ample justification for the Tanzanian intervention to unseat Idi Amin, but the results weren’t very pretty. Necessary in my opinion, but… brrr. Africa is no place for utopians.
One thing that might help is turning back time and un-prosecuting Augusto Pinochet. Sure, he was a son of a bitch, and objectively speaking deserved life imprisonment, but his handing over of power to civilians in return for immunity from prosecution set (or should have set) a precedent for the Mugabes of this world. Heck, I’d throw in ten million bucks, just to see guys like killing time in some luxurious backwater, rather than holding on to the bitter end.