Mugabe's Not Quite Done With Making Zimbabwe's People Suffer

by Can Tran July 04, 2008 While Robert Mugabe of the Zanu-PF Party has been “reelected” as President of Zimbabwe, most of the people of Zimbabwe still suffer from hunger. Perhaps this is Mugabe’s way of punishing those that have given their support to the opposition group known as the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Party. MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai had dropped out of the contest days before Zimbabwe had its runoff election on June 27. Since the election at the end of March, Zimbabwe was plunged into a humanitarian crisis. Mugabe’s Zanu-PF mobs and militiamen went out and systematically hunted and exterminated members and supporters of the MDC into submission. The method worked and Mugabe stole the election. At the African Union (AU) summit in Egypt, nobody except for Kenyan PM Raila Odinga had lashed out at Mugabe.... [read full story]