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...President Robert Mugabe lost a nation-wide referendum on constitutional reform. The defeat was a thinly veiled criticism of Mugabe??€™s leadership and a revolt against a proviso which would have indefinitely extended his rule. Mugabe??€™s response was vicious. He intimidated opposition and stacked parliament and the courts with his supporters, doubled the police force, formed academies to militarize youth, and encouraged renegade gangs to enforce his policies...
...along with prominent Zimbabwean attorney Eric Matinenga, helped secure their son’s release. Matinenga is also the lawyer for Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Bakshi, a joint social studies and visual and environmental studies concentrator, had traveled to Zimbabwe over the summer to conduct interviews with Mugabe??€™s current spokesman, George Charamba, who is the permanent secretary of the Information Ministry. Bakshi also spoke to Charamba’s predecessor, Jonathan Moyo, who was expelled from Mugabe??€™s ruling party early last year. Harvard College halted funding for student travel to Zimbabwe...
Bakshi, a joint social studies and visual and environmental studies concentrator, had traveled to Zimbabwe over the summer to conduct interviews with Mugabe??€™s current spokesman, George Charamba, who is the permanent secretary of the Information Ministry. Bakshi also spoke to Charamba’s predecessor, Jonathan Moyo, who was expelled from Mugabe??€™s ruling party early last year...
...face of Mugabe??€™s half-crazed will to power and institutional invulnerability, the MDC should abandon its attempts to achieve change within Zimbabwe’s democratic system. Mugabe has stolen three successive elections, and hoping for a sudden change of heart from Mugabe is self-destructive; participating in unwinnable elections weakens the MDC and disillusions its supporters. Why risk life and limb for a hopeless cause? The MDC’s hopeless campaigns only legitimize the ZANU-PF’s dictatorship; an impotent opposition provides Zimbabwe with the façade of a democracy...
...struggle against Mugabe demands a much more drastic action from the MDC. In the face of Mugabe??€™s institutional invulnerability, if the MDC is not willing to go to war, the only effective alternative is to completely refuse to engage and cooperate with Mugabe. The MDC should withdraw from Zimbabwe’s sham democracy. Yes, this would cost the MDC its voice in the Parliament, but currently that voice is effectively silenced regardless. If the MDC, with its widespread popular support and significant (albeit useless) representation in the Parliament, had refused to participate in the past elections...