Is there anything that can be done for Zimbabwe? It now seems that Mugabe’s influence in the military was deeper than had been supposed. Soldiers are effectively carrying out ethnic cleansing in order to win the election: bullying, intimidation, murder and a nod to democracy. British and American diplomats have been arrested at gunpoint. Aid work has been stopped.
There was talk some time ago of the United Nations doing something. But two out of the five permanent members of the security council don’t believe in democracy. China was recently found to be trying to supply Mugabe with armaments.
An invasion by the West? Here we can see the real damage of our invasion of Iraq. It would no longer be politically possible for America and Britain to invade a country without UN approval, however worthy the cause. And that approval will not come. The Zimbabweans are condemned to poverty and starvation.
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