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2005-06-10 Africa: Subsaharan

Mugabe's bulldozers push people back to land

Looks like I was right about Bob trying to be the new Pol Pot. EFL:

President Robert Mugabe's onslaught against Zimbabwe's cities has escalated to claim new targets, with white-owned factories and family homes being demolished in a campaign that has left 200,000 people homeless. Across the country, Mr Mugabe is destroying large areas of heaving townships and prosperous industrial areas alike. The aim of this brutal campaign is, says the official media, to depopulate urban areas and force people back to the "rural home".
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Across Zimbabwe, the United Nations estimates that 200,000 people have lost their homes, with the poorest townships bearing the brunt of Mr Mugabe's onslaught. "The vast majority are homeless in the streets," said Miloon Kothari, the UN's housing representative. He added that "mass evictions" were creating a "new kind of apartheid where the rich and the poor are being segregated". Virtually all the areas singled out for demolition voted for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change in the last elections. The MDC says that Mr Mugabe ordered the destruction as a deliberate reprisal. But the regime is also seeking to depopulate the cities, driving people into the countryside where the MDC is virtually non-existent and the ruling Zanu-PF Party dominates.
The Herald, the official daily newspaper, urged "urbanites" to go "back to the rural home, to reconnect with one's roots and earn an honest living from the soil our government repossessed under the land reform programme".

Cuz it worked so well in Cambodia

Posted by Steve 2005-06-10 13:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 When does "The Year Zero" start?

Posted by tu3031 2005-06-10 13:27|| 2005-06-10 13:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Hmmm... Where's Annan on this?...
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover020805.htm

Posted by Tom 2005-06-10 13:52|| 2005-06-10 13:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Keep up with Bob The Unbuilder's latest adventures at http://www.sokwanele.com/blog/blog.html

interesting and disturbing

Posted by classer 2005-06-10 15:57|| 2005-06-10 15:57|| Front Page Top

#4 I wonder when Charlie Rangell's going to bother getting upset.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-06-10 20:32|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-06-10 20:32|| Front Page Top

#5 How can Mbeki (and other South Arfican officials) tolerate this madman next door.
They could end this in a day.

Posted by john 2005-06-10 20:57|| 2005-06-10 20:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Great. Bob's totally lost it.

The guy is in serious need of killin'...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-06-10 23:39|| 2005-06-10 23:39|| Front Page Top

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