Comments on: Will Zimbabwe see true democracy: roundup of African news

By: byrdparker

byrdparker — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:54:34 +0000

the truth truth tellers are painted as the liars
the liars are painted as the truth tellers ..

Not one country is going to help the africans , even those feigning support.

Dominate Nations controll the Un. So the Un really has no real power , it’s an illusion .

mugabe’s reign , is being supported by other countries ..

I want to know more about coffee in africa , how the workers are treated ?

I do a lot of work with asia , and i can tell u the way the us paints the picture is not how it is .

By: aulelia

aulelia — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:50:59 +0000

Heber – I definitely agree with you about God shaming us. Darfur is all of our mistake – we are all responsible. I read on BBC today that Rwanda might be pulling out of there…

Afrofabulous – Good point! It is a province and that is no doubt a reason.The UN can’t even do anything because their protocol doesn’t allow them to intervene. What are we to do?

By: afrofabulous

afrofabulous — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:56:39 +0000

I agree, Heber, also I think the fact that it is a province, and not the entire country being ethnically cleansed that complicates – Rwanda took regieme change (for want of a better term) to end..I don’t see anything happening until Sundan runs out of oil and China decides not to waste it’s veto.. I’m disapointed that the UN Responsibility to Protect thing (protecting people from their governments) is so useless.
Zim: not to detract from Mugabe’s horrific, hopeless record as a leader, but taking with some historical distance, it’s looking like a severe case of African-dictator syndrome, and the media coverage is exactly as it is when the an African stops playing ball with the Foreign Office… Mugabe, Amin, I can understand but even Lumumba was cast as a crazed tyrant (with all of three month’s to prove it) as was Nkrumah (displacing British businesses didn’t help).President al-Bashir of Sudan, however, getes feted…

By: Heber Brown, III

Heber Brown, III — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:12:06 +0000

I appreciate your piece on Darfur. The sad reality about the international hesitancy regarding intervention, I fear, revolves around something that Archbishop Desmond Tutu suggested. He implied that it was because the victims were Africans. I also believe that there are other countries (China, Russia) that have strong business ties to the government in Khartoum and will attempt to protect them from international intervention. How does that Bible scripture go again? – the love of money is at the root of all evil? History will shame us and God will judge the human family for this one – no doubt.