Zimbabwe: Worse and Worse
From a report from Sunday (HT Boring Made Dull):
Zimbabwe riot police arrested the country’s top opposition leader on Sunday as they suppressed a planned prayer rally in a crackdown on protests against President Robert Mugabe.
Witnesses said heavily armed police fought skirmishes with rock-throwing opposition supporters in the Harare township of Highfield, where the opposition-aligned Save Zimbabwe Coalition had called for a Sunday prayer rally.
….. Zimbabwe has seen political tensions build as it sinks deeper into its worst economic crisis in decades, with inflation now above 1,700 percent, unemployment of close to 80 percent and regular shortages of food, fuel and foreign exchange.
Mugabe, 83, and in power since independence in 1980, dismisses the MDC as a puppet of Zimbabwe’s former colonial master Britain which opposes him for seizing white-owned commercial farms to give to blacks.
That must be some kind of record — going back 27 years in an attempt to discredit the opposition. Mugabe is responsible for all of this, particularly the land seizures, which have brought food production to a virtual standstill. Zimbabwe cannot recover until Mugabe and his apparatchiks are banished.
