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...simple majority while the ZANU-PF only needs 71 seats to have a two-thirds majority. The ZANU-PF supports this structural advantage through gang violence, voter intimidation, and shameless abuse of food aid. Simply put, voting for the MDC is a death sentence in rural areas, where famine??€”thanks to Mugabe’s land-grabbing policies—enables the ZANU-PF party to condemn MDC voters to starvation. The MDC was further emasculated through a hopelessly outdated voter roll which enabled two million ghosts to vote for ZANU-PF, in addition to those non-existent...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski, | Title: Everyone's Favorite Evil Dictator | 4/19/2005 | See Source »

This argument is understandable. No matter how odious Duranty’s morals and reprehensible his treatment of the famine??€”while denying it in print, he privately told British diplomats in September 1933 that as many as 10 million people had starved to death—the fate of his 1932 prize should ultimately rest upon the strength of the writing for which...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: Revoking Stalin's Pulitzer | 12/3/2003 | See Source »

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