Zimbabwean prison officer's film shows Mugabe vote-rigging »
Posted by: DiffeeOnline 1 month, 3 weeks agoA film that graphically demonstrates how Robert Mugabe's supporters rigged the elections in Zimbabwe has been smuggled out of the country by a prison officer. It is believed to be the first footage that shows ballot-rigging actually taking place and comes as the Zimbabwean president is facing increasing international pressure.
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bigurn1 month, 3 weeks ago
The continent of Africa is racked with oppression. What we disdain on a daily basis would be paradise to many African countries. These countries tie up a large share of debt and infrastructure development, and solving this would liberate a huge number of good people and tremendous natural resources.
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dissent1 month, 3 weeks ago
mugabe, like saddam, is another puppet that went rogue. this time britain's. google the lancaster agreement. no big surprise why britain is so "interested" in zimbabwe now
"Eventually the parties to the talks agreed on a new constitution for a new Republic of Zimbabwe with elections in February 1980. The Lancaster Agreement saw Mugabe make two important and contentious concessions. First, he allowed 20 seats to be reserved for whites in the new Parliament, and second, he agreed to a ten year moratorium on constitutional amendments. His return to Zimbabwe in December 1979, following the completion of the Lancaster House Agreement, was greeted with enormous supportive crowds."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe
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truthiness1 month, 3 weeks ago
dissent is correct that much of the problems which plague africa are due to western interference which prevented the path to industrialization and the accompanying govt reforms from happening.
Africa needs a massive continental infrastructure project to provide jobs and an open market place to its people. this would go a long way to speeding development.
of course, less outside interference would probably be helpful as well.
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1-2-Oscar1 month, 3 weeks ago
That sounds like just the ticket--but the devil is in the details.
How do you propose to complete "a massive continental infrastructure project" without outside interference?" Is it possible to "provide (industrial) jobs" to a poorly educated population? How can that be done without "outside interference?" How will you create "an open market place" without capital, and where can that capital possibly come from without "outside interference?"
In fact, "outside interference" and assistance from the developed nations of the world is necessary if Africa is to be saved from further deterioration, much less "industrialization and the accompanying govt reforms (whatever they are)."
Among the biggest obstacles to economic and political progress in Africa are the current self-serving leaders. How can they be removed without "outside interference?"
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dissent1 month, 3 weeks ago
"Among the biggest obstacles to economic and political progress in Africa are the current self-serving leaders. How can they be removed without "outside interference?""
even though it was "outside interference" that put them there -- check out the lancaster agreement. let's be real shall we? it's not in the west's interests to see that africa make any kind of advances. if africa did that it may become an economic bloc and a force to be reckoned with. it would become rich, stable and secure and then it may just start dictating better deals, not deal with the world bank and then ask top dollar for all those resources that have proven so important to western economies for so many centuries. the west has a brutal history of never having had much interest in the advancement of any global region if its to the detriment of its own interests. africa was the original colonial outpost and it continues to be just that. all that's changed are the names and the flags
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truthiness1 month, 3 weeks ago
both the United states and europe managed to turn their resource int an industrial revolution without any outside help. what makes you think the africans cant. these are, after all, the people who built the pyramids and and the first irrigation projects and the first calendar in the west, and ancient star charts that remain accurate, etc
I realize as Americans we are taught to feel good about ourselves.. but they dn't need us.
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CUTtotheNEWS1 month, 3 weeks ago
Here's part of the problem: He just attended a summit of African leaders, and they failed to issue a statement condemning him. He mentioned something akin to those who live in glass houses . . .
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1-2-Oscar1 month, 3 weeks ago
The people of Zimbabwe apparently CAN'T get rid of this creature, and the other African leaders WON'T move against him. Yet any attempt by the industrialized nations to end his despotic (and often murderous) rule will be condemned as "outside interference." If he is killing his people and destroying their nation, isn't "outside interference" entirely justified?
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dissent1 month, 3 weeks ago
"outside interference" especially when it claims to have "good intentions" pretty much is always vulture-like "barely concealed opportunism". if there is to be "outside interference" it certainly shouldn't come from britain which, unsurprisingly, shows the most interest in doing just that. old empires get a bit precious about their former colonies and look for any way to get them back. we shouldn't either coz we always just love to pick over the bones. especially not after iraq which was carved up for its oil just last week
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1-2-Oscar1 month, 3 weeks ago
You have demonstrated some skill at naysaying. Now come up with some positive contribution (for once). You are full of reasons why "the (evil) industrialized West" should keep out, but have expressed no opinion on how to (a) immediately relieve the suffering of the people in Zimbabwe, and (b) how to educate those people to a point where they can undertake skilled production and form effective governments.
So far, you're just a blowhard.
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50Mhz1 month, 3 weeks ago
With sterling leadership from the USofA what else would you expect.
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."
GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH (R-TX), PRESIDENT-ELECT
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HannibalBarca1 month, 3 weeks ago
But last week he was a wuss, no balls; now he is ruthless, what is next weeks smear, dickfor
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1-2-Oscar1 month, 3 weeks ago
It is apparent that you have no brain, and not an honest bone in your body.
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dennis1231 month, 2 weeks ago
What's the point? Fighting for freedom for years and when you get it you turn around and start carnage on your own people. Indefensible act that as no place in the modern world.
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