Comments on: ‘Hyper-inflation’, ‘genocide’ and ‘rock-bottom’

By: Lobengula

Lobengula — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:56:05 +0000

All of this is blather! Zimbabweans are renowned for "making a plan". The only plan I'm seeing is wringing of hands. If we don't do something we're all finished. We need to DO SOMETHING!

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By: Anne Coventry

Anne Coventry — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:37:56 +0000

It would seem that rock bottom will only be reached when Mugabe and his cronies are in the same situation as their people - no food and no money. The only thing left to hope for is that before they reach that point they have no jobs, either.

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By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:28:58 +0000

I think that trying to define the policies with which Mugabe and his cronies have destroyed the country is fairly irrelevant-genocide, democide, politicide, classicide-whatever you want to call it-the real problems is what to do. Clearly the man and his cronies who run the country need to be deposed from power, his nearly 30-year rule brought to an end, and led Tsvangrai and the opposition be given the chance to run the country. There was international pressure earlier this summer which caused Mugabe to agree to the power-sharing agreement in the first place-let us hope, and work for that to be brought back, and that Mugabe is eventually taken down from power. Zimbabweans, I have no connection to you, but I weep for you and the terrible things that have been do to you and your country. I hope and pray that someday, life in Zimbabwe will match what can be found in the advanced nations of the world.

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By: Jamison Wiggins

Jamison Wiggins — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:32:36 +0000

Quoting Don CoxNo, it isn't genocide. Genocide is when people of one race or racial grouping deliberately kill all (or as many as possible) of another group, _because_of_their_race. If the Mugabe thugs deliberately set out to kill every white person in Zimbabwe, that would be genocide.

Point of clarification: Genocide is based more on Ethnicity than Race. Hutu and Tutsi are the same Race. Genocide is a very hard term to find concensous on, however I think we can all agree that the situation in Zim is a set-up to something horrific.

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By: Ants

Ants — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:03:13 +0000

This quip appeared in the JAG (Justice for Agriculture) newsletter, and I just had to smile! So with apologies, Joe Whaley - I reproduce it here:- Dear JAG, If Churchill had been alive today, in reference to the Dark Continent, he would have said something along the lines of "Never before in the history of mankind has so little been achieved by so many with so much"!! Cheers Joe Whaley

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By: Alisdair Budd

Alisdair Budd — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:05:26 +0000

According to the Ethiopian definitio, it is Genocide. Mengistu, "Mugabe's house Guest", remember was sentenced to death by Ethiopia for Genocide because he caused or advocated, ordered and incited the death of his citizens ion the basis of their "political affiliation." So, according to one accepted African Definition, the Zimbabwean Situatio IS a genocide for the deliberate causing of death ( by denying food) of a group of people on the basis of their poltical affiliation.

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By: a Duoist

a Duoist — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:28:32 +0000

Emeritus professor Richard Rummel has a website dedicated to the 'Democratic Peace.' Once a finalist for the Nobel Peace Prize, he is most famous for his term, "democide," the official killing by government of its citizens. Mr. Mugabe's and the ZANU-PF's rule in Zimbabwe is a democide.

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By: Sokwanele

Sokwanele — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:42:07 +0000

@Don Cox - How about 'politicide'? Political mass killings, as defined by Genocide Watch Hope

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By: Don Cox

Don Cox — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:40:50 +0000

That should be "classicide".

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By: Don Cox

Don Cox — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:39:33 +0000

No, it isn't genocide. Genocide is when people of one race or racial grouping deliberately kill all (or as many as possible) of another group, _because_of_their_race. If the Mugabe thugs deliberately set out to kill every white person in Zimbabwe, that would be genocide. Simply killing millions of people for no particular racial reason is a massacre, not a genocide. To confuse the two devalues what happened to the European Jews, or the Armenians. Hitler was more evil than Mugabe. There is a need for another word, perhaps "claasicide" to describe what Marxist dictators such as Stalin did to the bourgeois or the lanlords. There is, I think, an element of this in the events in Zimbabwe. But mostly it is rule by the greedy, power-mad and incompetent, of which there are many examples throughout history.

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