Por Desmond Tutu, Premio Nobel de la Paz en 1984, fue arzobispo de Cape Town de 1986 a 1996 y encabezó la Comisión para la Verdad y Reconciliación de Sudáfrica y Madeleine Albright, Secretaria de Estado en el régimen de Bill Clinton, directora del Albright Group LLC y presidente del National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (THE WASHINGTON POST, 29/03/07):
Zimbabwe, long plagued by the repressive leadership of President Robert Mugabe, has reached the point of crisis. Leaders of the democratic opposition were arrested and beaten, and one was killed, while attempting to hold a peaceful prayer meeting on March 11. Morgan Tsvangirai, head of the Movement for Democratic Change, emerged from detention with a swollen eye and a fractured skull. Several days later, Nelson Chamisa, the movement’s spokesman, was stopped en route to a meeting with European officials and beaten with iron bars. Other activists have been prevented from leaving the country to seek medical treatment for wounds inflicted by police.
Unrest has continued, as have the violent crackdowns. Mugabe, stubborn and unrepentant as ever, has vowed to “bash” protesters and dismissed international criticism as an imperialist plot. Although anti-government feelings are prompted by the regime’s lack of respect for human and political rights, Mugabe’s poor management of the economy is also to blame. The inflation rate, more than 1,700 percent, is the world’s highest, while an estimated four out of five people are unemployed. Zimbabwe, once Africa’s breadbasket, has become, under Mugabe, a basket case.
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Zimbabwe, long plagued by the repressive leadership of President Robert Mugabe, has reached the point of crisis. Leaders of the democratic opposition were arrested and beaten, and one was killed, while attempting to hold a peaceful prayer meeting on March 11. Morgan Tsvangirai, head of the Movement for Democratic Change, emerged from detention with a swollen eye and a fractured skull. Several days later, Nelson Chamisa, the movement’s spokesman, was stopped en route to a meeting with European officials and beaten with iron bars. Other activists have been prevented from leaving the country to seek medical treatment for wounds inflicted by police.
Unrest has continued, as have the violent crackdowns. Mugabe, stubborn and unrepentant as ever, has vowed to “bash” protesters and dismissed international criticism as an imperialist plot. Although anti-government feelings are prompted by the regime’s lack of respect for human and political rights, Mugabe’s poor management of the economy is also to blame. The inflation rate, more than 1,700 percent, is the world’s highest, while an estimated four out of five people are unemployed. Zimbabwe, once Africa’s breadbasket, has become, under Mugabe, a basket case.
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