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Zimbabwe Is Dying, Blair Doesn’t Care

June 2nd, 2007 by ThunderDragon

More people die every month in Zimbabwe than in either Darfur or Iraq. Rape, torture, and murder by government officials is commonplace. Mugabe has systematically destroyed the Zimbabwean economy by evicting white farmers and giving their farms to political friends, and once prosperous farms become desolate- and he wants to do the same to foreign-owned businesses. Zimbabwe has gone from the breadbasket of Africa, to a basket-case.

Yet will anyone help? Does anyone care? Over his decade as Prime Minister, Tony Blair has spent a lot of time on foreign policy with wars and intervention all over the world, most recently in Afghanistan and Iraq, and yet has done nothing about the abuses in Zimbabwe, where Mugabe is arguably as, if not more, oppressive than Saddam Hussein had been in Iraq.

Thus, instead of even trying to make change happen in Zimbabwe, Tony Blair says that all we can do “is support those, like [South African] President Mbeki, who are trying to bring about change.” And yet the African leaders have done little to help Zimbabwe, and many seem more interested in lining their own pockets than doing anything about atrocities on their doorstep. But there are things that we can, and should, do.

Maybe Gordon Brown will disagree with Blair and do something about it when he takes over in 25 days. But I doubt it - though it does depend on who he decides to appoint as Foreign Secretary. Hopefully somone better than that waste-of-space Margaret Beckett. Though, even despite her uselessness, such is the level of “talent” at the top of the Labour Party that that may well actually be a hard job.

Sources: The Times, The Difference Magazine [articles not online] and blog, The Telegraph - article 1, article 2

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