Long after you leave Zimbabwe images linger in the mind, harrowing and ineradicable. An emaciated old woman making “soup” from weeds for her orphaned grandchildren; desperate parents foraging in the bush for a handful of desiccated berries; young men defying crocodiles to catch a handful of tiny fish in the Zambezi; the corpses of cholera victims trussed up in black plastic sheeting; the ubiquitous and debilitated Aids victims; perfunctory funerals in Harare’s cemetery while, all around, fresh graves are dug.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
A REAL tragedy
Adam Smith at The Inquiring Mind reminds us that while there is unlimited hand-wringing over the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, there is a real and enduring humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe. The Times article which Adam quotes from begins thus, and is a must-read:
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You've only just caught up with the disaster in Zimbabwe?
The massacre in Gaza is a real tragedy, and so is the totalitarian repression in Zimbabwe, and consequent brutal police state and starvation and disease.
How to fix it? Maybe start by telling the truth to these butchers, and applying stringent sanctions (economic and political), or are we are brave enough to do that to little old Fiji?
Sadly, McCully and Key seem happy to sit on the electrified barbed wire apartheid fence Israel and Mugabe have built...
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