Zimbabwe : Mugabe Rounds-Up Foreign Journalists, Raids Opposition Offices - Crackdown In Progress

[B1ackwater]

yahoo news:

HARARE, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe's government raided the
offices of the main opposition movement and rounded up foreign
journalists Thursday in an ominous indication that he may use
intimidation and violence to keep his grip on power.

Police raided a hotel used by the opposition Movement for Democratic
Change and ransacked some of the rooms. Riot police also surrounded
another hotel housing foreign journalists and took away several of
them, according to a man who answered the phone there.

"Mugabe has started a crackdown," Movement for Democratic Change
general secretary Tendai Biti told The Associated Press. "It is quite
clear he has unleashed a war."

Biti said the raid at the Meikles Hotel targeted "certain people ...
including myself." Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was "safe" but
had canceled plans for a news conference, Biti said.

He said that Thursday's clampdown was a sign of worse to follow but
that the opposition would not go into hiding.

"You can't hide away from fascism. Zimbabwe is a small country. So we
are not going into hiding. We are just going to have to be extra
cautious," he said.

- - - - -

Gee ... as if this wasn't predictable .......

Looks like YAABB ... Yet Another Africal Bloodbath ... in progress.

Maybe the UN will issue a strong letter indicating its
"disappointment" with Mugabe.

 

[Wolfie]

B1ackwater wrote:
> yahoo news:
>
> HARARE, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe's government raided the
> offices of the main opposition movement and rounded up foreign
> journalists Thursday in an ominous indication that he may use
> intimidation and violence to keep his grip on power.
>
> Police raided a hotel used by the opposition Movement for Democratic
> Change and ransacked some of the rooms. Riot police also surrounded
> another hotel housing foreign journalists and took away several of
> them, according to a man who answered the phone there.
>
> "Mugabe has started a crackdown," Movement for Democratic Change
> general secretary Tendai Biti told The Associated Press. "It is quite
> clear he has unleashed a war."
>
> Biti said the raid at the Meikles Hotel targeted "certain people ...
> including myself." Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was "safe" but
> had canceled plans for a news conference, Biti said.
>
> He said that Thursday's clampdown was a sign of worse to follow but
> that the opposition would not go into hiding.
>
> "You can't hide away from fascism. Zimbabwe is a small country. So we
> are not going into hiding. We are just going to have to be extra
> cautious," he said.
>
> - - - - -
>
> Gee ... as if this wasn't predictable .......
>
> Looks like YAABB ... Yet Another Africal Bloodbath ... in progress.
>
> Maybe the UN will issue a strong letter indicating its
> "disappointment" with Mugabe.
>
You can blame a LOT of this on South Africa's ANC. They have supported
Mugabe no matter what he does, and clearly they support the idea of
hanging onto power even if voted out at the polls. It does not auger
well for the future of that country either. They could have ended
Mugbes dictatorship 10 years ago, but he was, like them, a Cold War
victory for the Soviets and their idealogues probably told them
that staying together no matter what, was survival.

--
Wolfie

 

[lorad474@cs.com]

On Apr 3, 12:24

 

[Ronald 'More-More' Moshki]

On Apr 3, 4:48

 

[* US *]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:36:54 -0700 (PDT), "Ronald 'More-More' Moshki"
<sector_four@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On Apr 3, 4:48

 

[Ronald 'More-More' Moshki]

On Apr 3, 6:39

 

[* US *]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:59:29 -0700 (PDT), "Ronald 'More-More' Moshki"
<sector_four@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On Apr 3, 6:39

 

[B1ackwater]

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:24:30 -0400, Wolfie
<Wolfie@FrenchGirl'sBoy.org> wrote:

>B1ackwater wrote:
>> yahoo news:
>>
>> HARARE, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe's government raided the
>> offices of the main opposition movement and rounded up foreign
>> journalists Thursday in an ominous indication that he may use
>> intimidation and violence to keep his grip on power.
>>
>> Police raided a hotel used by the opposition Movement for Democratic
>> Change and ransacked some of the rooms. Riot police also surrounded
>> another hotel housing foreign journalists and took away several of
>> them, according to a man who answered the phone there.
>>
>> "Mugabe has started a crackdown," Movement for Democratic Change
>> general secretary Tendai Biti told The Associated Press. "It is quite
>> clear he has unleashed a war."
>>
>> Biti said the raid at the Meikles Hotel targeted "certain people ...
>> including myself." Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was "safe" but
>> had canceled plans for a news conference, Biti said.
>>
>> He said that Thursday's clampdown was a sign of worse to follow but
>> that the opposition would not go into hiding.
>>
>> "You can't hide away from fascism. Zimbabwe is a small country. So we
>> are not going into hiding. We are just going to have to be extra
>> cautious," he said.
>>
>> - - - - -
>>
>> Gee ... as if this wasn't predictable .......
>>
>> Looks like YAABB ... Yet Another African Bloodbath ... in progress.
>>
>> Maybe the UN will issue a strong letter indicating its
>> "disappointment" with Mugabe.
>>
>You can blame a LOT of this on South Africa's ANC. They have supported
>Mugabe no matter what he does, and clearly they support the idea of
>hanging onto power even if voted out at the polls.

I'm not sure what the ANC sees in Mugabe. The ANC has
always been rather leftist after all, and Mugabe is more
of a fascist tyrant.

>It does not auger
>well for the future of that country either. They could have ended
>Mugbes dictatorship 10 years ago, but he was, like them, a Cold War
>victory for the Soviets and their idealogues probably told them
>that staying together no matter what, was survival.

Maybe ... "black power" for "black nations", I suppose
it's a philosophy that might breed regional unity and
thus political/economic clout.

Mugabe is a HIGH price to pay however ... he's replaced
Idi Amin as the poster boy for what's WRONG with modern
African governments.

 

[Wolfie]

B1ackwater wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:24:30 -0400, Wolfie
> <Wolfie@FrenchGirl'sBoy.org> wrote:
>
>> B1ackwater wrote:
>>> yahoo news:
>>>
>>> HARARE, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe's government raided the
>>> offices of the main opposition movement and rounded up foreign
>>> journalists Thursday in an ominous indication that he may use
>>> intimidation and violence to keep his grip on power.
>>>
>>> Police raided a hotel used by the opposition Movement for Democratic
>>> Change and ransacked some of the rooms. Riot police also surrounded
>>> another hotel housing foreign journalists and took away several of
>>> them, according to a man who answered the phone there.
>>>
>>> "Mugabe has started a crackdown," Movement for Democratic Change
>>> general secretary Tendai Biti told The Associated Press. "It is quite
>>> clear he has unleashed a war."
>>>
>>> Biti said the raid at the Meikles Hotel targeted "certain people ...
>>> including myself." Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was "safe" but
>>> had canceled plans for a news conference, Biti said.
>>>
>>> He said that Thursday's clampdown was a sign of worse to follow but
>>> that the opposition would not go into hiding.
>>>
>>> "You can't hide away from fascism. Zimbabwe is a small country. So we
>>> are not going into hiding. We are just going to have to be extra
>>> cautious," he said.
>>>
>>> - - - - -
>>>
>>> Gee ... as if this wasn't predictable .......
>>>
>>> Looks like YAABB ... Yet Another African Bloodbath ... in progress.
>>>
>>> Maybe the UN will issue a strong letter indicating its
>>> "disappointment" with Mugabe.
>>>
>> You can blame a LOT of this on South Africa's ANC. They have supported
>> Mugabe no matter what he does, and clearly they support the idea of
>> hanging onto power even if voted out at the polls.
>
> I'm not sure what the ANC sees in Mugabe. The ANC has
> always been rather leftist after all, and Mugabe is more
> of a fascist tyrant.

Well, the ANC "contains" the South African Communist Party,
so one wonders whether the SACP has more say internally
than the ANC lets on.

>
>> It does not auger
>> well for the future of that country either. They could have ended
>> Mugbes dictatorship 10 years ago, but he was, like them, a Cold War
>> victory for the Soviets and their idealogues probably told them
>> that staying together no matter what, was survival.
>
> Maybe ... "black power" for "black nations", I suppose
> it's a philosophy that might breed regional unity and
> thus political/economic clout.

Well, Mugabe tried that by booting all the white
farmers out. Many of them were invited to Kenya and Zambia
where they are doing well while Mugabe saw 45% of his GNP
vanish as a result.

>
> Mugabe is a HIGH price to pay however ... he's replaced
> Idi Amin as the poster boy for what's WRONG with modern
> African governments.
>
Amin was insane. Mugabe is simply a social engineer that
thinks he is smart enough to make Marxism/Leninism
work by using a Stalinist approach.

--
Wolfie