Unfortunately,
Zimbabwe is again in the news headlines for the very wrong reasons.
This past
week has seen mass protests, violence, misery and death. As in the past, the
government responded to unrest with extreme and unjustified force. Basic human
rights are simply ignored. The regime is brutal, as ruthless as it has been in
past similar situations. It’s unclear how many people have been killed by the
police and the soldiers.
Zimbabweans
have been under tremendous suffering, unimaginable hardship, for the best part
of the last two decades. That´s a long national crisis, with a very heavy toll.
The leadership has been inconsiderately inhumane.
And
the little ray of hope that the new President had brought, after the departure
of Robert Mugabe, appears now to have become a very sad illusion. Key democrats
feel devastated by the new dramatic events. And as I write this evening, the
situation is still getting worse.
Very
sad.
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