Gaddafi is Moslem. The culture there is different. He did not allow for elections to be held in a shameful way and violent one like your hero Mugabe.

We don’t begrudge MUGABE OF HIS HEROICS. He ha s been killing people in order to be elected into power. I wonder which country you live in. Ever heard of a chameleon? that is what Mugabe is. Gaddafi has been steadfast and I repsect him for that. As for Mugabe he is a gropper for that which will make him credible to himself. He delights in offshoer analysts who sympathise with his blunders, like yourself.

As for Dafour you know perfectly well that the UN has blundered there because of their reliance on the AU.

Which ever way you look at it my friend to me you do not sound African. You are the fools who have polluted African politics with your western culture, imposing it on the Africans and confusing it and suddenly see heroism in murder. How many leaders in your country have murdered people the way African despots have.

You must be a skin head in the guise of an African sympathiser or are you a goth or punk, anti establishment yet you still buy from an establishment called the supermarket instaed of picking your mushrooms from the bush and milking the cows. Get real you demented sympathetic fake.

when the power went out last week, i was sitting in an internet cafe, and when some people came in carrying zanu-pf bandannas for distribution, half the people left. [this is an internet cafe near ximex mall]

sunday, however, i was in the internet cafe at samora and julius and some thugs who were feeling energised from breaking up the mdc rally decided to come in and cause some grief.

i am SO GLAD i was not on this site while they were in the internet cafe. despite not being zimbabwean, i’m sure something real bad could have happened to me.

on the plane leaving harare, people were openly discussing having the hague come calling on thabo once he is no longer president for aiding and abetting this mess.

Thanks for that. Madness creates laws. I n the Zimbabwean context ‘the constitution shall be followed’, so says the daft and insignifican’t Sikhanyiso Ndlovu. Someone once said Mugabe likes clinging to the thinest veneeer of legality. Guess what! He thinks this farce of an election will legitimise his position in power. Democracy gone stinking mad indeed!!

And there shall be a party Animal Farm style.

Not to make too finer point of it - but surely “one political group” could adequately describe all opposition to Mugabe.

Hence “genocide” is perfectly apt.

Frankly, for a savage like Mugabe, practically every sinister word used in the preceding comments can be made to stick in one way or another - rather like shit to a blanket.

“But please do not use the word “genocide”, unless he systematically kills all the members of one race, such as the whites in Zimbadwe.”

The definition of genocide:
The deliberate and systematic destruction of an entire people who belong to one racial, political, cultural or religious group.

If the writer is using the word genocide in the context of Mugabe destroying MDC followers then he has every right to use the word genocide.

The definition of massacre:
To kill a large number of people indiscriminately.

If it is in the context of just killing people who don’t necessarily belong to any group then it is a massacre.

Judjing by the context and “If that happened it would be a vicious one-sided bloodbath.” he is able to use the word genocide.

Zims tyrant is much worse than Saddam could have ever dreamed of being. The problem is the western nations will never send their forces because they feel there is nothing in Zim worth saving. Everyone is making all the right noises but there will never be action. This is a fact however sad it may be.

I do fear that SA will be next. It wont happen over night but one senses that somewhere along the line something dramatic will happen and we will start to see a collapse. Will we see another beautiful African country like Zim be destroyed by a corrupt egotistical government?

I don’t believe in prayer so all I can say is I’m holding thumbs for Zim and SA and I hope I’m wrong.

He will arrest or kill MDC members until Zanu-PF has a majority. This is a Marxist dictatorship, and Marxism is incompatible with democracy. Mugabe is simply following the logical path which was trod long ago by Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao and the rest.

But please do not use the word “genocide”, unless he systematically kills all the members of one race, such as the whites in Zimbadwe. The word for killing many people is “massacre” - that is what Pol Pot and Mao and Stalin perpetrated.

Marxists tend to massacre the members of a social class rather than a race or tribe.

Something different has started, and Mugabe is alone, alone with his “God”, the God he says will replace him, as millions have been praying. He is alone, in a funny suit, shaking his fist at his God and ancestors who have left him foolish and alone ad shrinking.

If Sadc can do what it is supposed to do right away, meaning this week — anyone with a heart can’t ignore the brave souls of Zimbabwe now, with Zambia and Botswana and Kenya and Senegal standing up, and when South Africa stops cowering — June 22 may be remembered as a good day.

Come on, Africa, come to the aid of your neighbors. Find the courage, this week, to match the courage of Zimbabweans.

But I believe this is again a smart move by Morgan, and will play in his and the people’s favour. This is a total embarrasment to Mugabe, fancy having an election without an opponent. And imagine the trillions he’s wasted on the election process and Zanu payoff for the violence. Sure keep printing that money, but that will be his downfall.

And the international community will now totally ban him. Business will grind to halt. UN intervention to save the people is inevitable. I believe your freedom will come soon.

Until some international resolve is in place which would restore that promise to the electorate, there is no reason to believe that one’s vote would count for anything. Let’s hope that the region or the AU finds some way of delivering on that promise, then there can be an election.

The Mugabe camp plan to go ahead, obviously looking for the means to ‘proove’ their popularity and legitimacy via high (read rigged and coerced)voting percentages.

I don’t want to be an alarmist here, and can someone corect me if I am wrong, but can MDC actually pull-out at this stage? Section 107 of the Electoral Act permits withdrawal of a candidate up to 21 days before polling day. Does this mean that legally (and I know this to be a somewhat vague term in Zimbabwe) within the 21 days preceding polling day, a candidate cannot withdraw?

Mind you the act is full of sections about activities considered to be illegal, such as forcing candidates to participate against their will.

On the question of violence. Mugabe will continue, and blame it on MDC right-wingers targeting other MDC moderates for forcing Tsvangirai to ‘throw in the towel’