Isn't it too ghastly for words to have to face the fact that Robert Mugabe's personal escape from his just deserts may yet come about because of the very depths of depravity to which his ZANU (PF) regime has plunged?
A writer called Yarik Turianskyi whose question "Will Robert Mugabe face trial?" I noted on ZWNEWS yesterday, concludes that the answer may be a reluctant "Yes"
Certainly, the people who have suffered grievously at his hands, indirectly, we assume, through his abominable lieutenants would find it almost impossible to forgive him. It seems that you can get away with murder, as long as your victims are legion.
Auschwitz and concentration camps the world over have shown skeletal victims of the cruelty that humans (can we call them that?) visit upon each other. "How terrible! How wicked! This must never happen again!" we exclaim. And then we have gone back to our business, and we have let it happen again. Zimbabwean victims of Robert Mugabe are starving in a country capable of feeding not only inself but most of sub-Saharan Africa too.
Copyright © 2004 Diana Mitchell
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