Zimbabwe accuses U.S. envoy of trying to demonize country

Thursday 15th May, 01:59 AM JST

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unscrejects at 10:20 AM JST - 16th May

It's not Mugabe doing this. The nation is completely divided in two. One half is sworn to physically making the other hurt for so-called siding with South Africa and Britain. Even if Mugabe handed over power tomorrow there will be no stop in these beatings etc. The press must start telling the truth about Zimbabwe's situation. Mugabe kept the two sides apart for twenty years. Britain knows this for a fact. I grew up in Mvurwi (Umvukwes at the time). The population in the Chiweshe TTL (Tribal Trust Land or Reservation) was trucked in from the Victoria province (Masvingo today) - Umvuma, Gutu, Nema districts, in the early 70's because their land was being given to Nicky Oppenheimer and tobacco interests when diamonds were discovered in the Kalahari sands... The Chiweshe area was tsetse fly infested. Hundeds of people died. And when Mozambique changed to Frelimo in '75 masses of the forced inhabitants of Chiweshe crossed the border to join ZANLA. The war was brutally intense (Operation Hurricane) and retribution on government collaborators - cutting off women's top lips for one - was not merciful. The biggest targets for this were the farm workers - all from Malawi and Mozambique. The Zimbabweans who suffered in Rhodesia's genocide of the Shona - mass executions, intentional infections with anthrax, cholera and typhus fever, can never forgive the people behind it - BAT, Lonrho, SABMILLER, Anglo America, Messina, Rio Tinto, Rothmans... the SOuth African Police, Rhodesian armed services, the South African administration of Vorster. To say Mugabe is evil makes me wonder. The Honorable US ambassador would be better served if somebody would enlighten him.