Like chickens coming home to roost - Zimbabwe
Not yet but soon hopefully -- from the
Christian Science Monitor:
Zimbabwean officials fear prosecution if Mugabe loses
Top ruling party members are jittery about being tried in international courts.
Defeat is never easy in politics, but it seems especially hard for Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, which has steered Zimbabwe through 28 years of ruinous and often brutal rule.
Harsh crackdowns against dissent, starting with the "Gukurahundi" massacres that left more than 20,000 people dead in the early 1980s to the crackdown against university students in 1988 to the land invasions against white commercial farmers in the late 1990s have created a long list of potential human rights violations by senior members of ZANU-PF.
Prosecution for involvement in these alleged crimes � and for rampant corruption � has given many top ZANU-PF leaders another compelling reason to hang on to power in the wake of Zimbabwe's disputed March 29 elections.
Don't even bother with the trial -- everyone knows they are guilty as sin.
Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.
Posted by DaveH at April 14, 2008 10:12 AM