Yes, Mr ex-President Mugabe. You have chosen the right word:
`Mugabe, who faces MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai in a presidential run-off on June 27 described the violence as "barbaric" (Mail & Guardian (SA) 3 June 08).
Barbaric, is undeniably the description of your own followers' current misbehaviour. You will have to wear that label yourself, tied to your toe, unless you can stop the cruel punishment of your own, brave people for voting against you. When your generals say that Tsvangirai will never rule, when your wife says he will never enter state house, when you boast of "degrees in violence" and you continue in denial of your well-deserved loss of power in the recent general elections, nobody needs to be very clever to conclude that the ongoing barbarism is indirectly your responsibility.
You spoke at a world food crisis summit in Rome on June 3, 2008. The barbarians destroyed Rome in the 5th century A.D. In the 21st century, Robert Mugabe, a disgraced former liberation fighter, who can be seen by the world as a spokesman for a clique of barbarians taking their orders from him, has entered the gates of Rome. Without your bullying, murderous militia, your suborned police,your disgraceful generals and your pathetic, juvenile `war vets' you confronted world leaders whose facial expressions, as revealed on television, betrayed no great fear of a balmy little leader of bone-headed and greedy barbaric hordes.
Shame on the UN for allowing you to display in that great, rebuilt city of Rome your utter ignorance of history, modern economics and your personal spite against a civilized, post-colonial western world.
"... The barbarians, who destroyed Rome, destroyed it to take its wealth not its knowledge...
...The shortage of farmers led to Romans depending on foreign nations for food, a basic staple of life. During this anarchy, civilization deteriorated to its most basic level"(Mega Essays.com).
Your destroyed Zimbabwe has no shortage of farmers as such; the shortage is of wealth. Your craven cronies have stolen the nation's human and material wealth built up over a relatively short 120 years. Even your most ardent African admirers are not
able to comprehend the depths to which you have brought a once-prosperous nation.
Copyright © 2004 Diana Mitchell
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