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After Monday’s vote, Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe??an international symbol of corruption—will join this litany of human rights abusers on the commission. Although he has rigged elections, brutalized opponents and condoned murderous attacks on his country’s white farmers, Mugabe will now have his views of morality and justice represented...
Clearly, the international community must respond to Zimbabwe??s flawed elections and Mugabe’s flagrant abuse of executive power. An attempt by the United States and Great Britain to convince Mugabe to share power in a national-unity government appears to have failed, indicating even more strongly Mugabe’s determination to cling to power. In response, the European Union (EU) and the United States have condemned the elections. The EU imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe before the election was even held, following the expulsion of European election observers, and EU ministers are set to discuss...
...Zimbabwe??s presidential election is three weeks away. The European Union has imposed travel restrictions on Zimbabwe??s president, Robert G. Mugabe, and frozen his European assets after he expelled the head European election monitor two weeks ago. The rest of the European monitors have since departed. However, forty election monitors from the British Commonwealth countries (except for the U.K. itself) remain in Zimbabwe, despite the departure of the Europeans...
Even the most effective international observers cannot undo all the damage that Mugabe has caused to the democratic process. But the danger is that these observers can give the elections an air of legitimacy. If they call Zimbabwe??s election fair in light of the corruption and tampering of the past months, they will only be helping to perpetuate Mugabe’s undemocratic reign. Saddam Hussein also knows that world pressure is mounting to remove sanctions from his country, and that if the inspectors do not find anything quickly, they will be under intense international pressure...
...influences, as is reggae; Chimurenga’s lyrics are also preoccupied with the struggle for human rights, freedom and dignity. Solely the veiled, idiomatic nature of the lyrics (which speak of “poisonous snakes” rather than oppressive regimes) saved him from being imprisoned during Zimbabwe??s struggle for liberation...