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Great Propaganda or Disgusting Policy or Both?

November 27th, 2002 · 1 Comment

From Pravda:

Zimbabwe’s Coming Holocaust: 6 Million Targeted for Extinction by
Starvation
Pravda
Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2002
The administrative secretary of the ruling ZANU-PF party in Zimbabwe,
Didymus Mutasa, has declared that the country would be better off
with 6 million of its citizens dead. Now the government is
distributing food only to Shona speakers, condemning the populations
who voted for the MDC to death by starvation.
Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF regime is a murderous, evil clique comparable
only to the world’s worst tyrants, such as Pol Pot, Bokassa, Idi Amin
and the CIA’s former protege Suharto.

Mutasa declared to the press during the weekend: “We would be better
off with only 6 million people, with our own [Shona] people who
support the liberation struggle. We don’t want all these extra
people.”

By “extra people” Zimbabwe’s leading civil servant means the people
who live in non-Shona-speaking areas, who in their majority supported
the opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change.

Food aid is being distributed only to Shona speakers, those in charge
of distribution being watched closely by ZANU-PF party officials.

Because of crop failures this year, those living in areas which are
wholly dependent on food aid and who do not receive it, are dying.

Robert Mugabe’s murderous regime is carrying out a policy of
ethnic “cleansing” while the rest of the world concentrates on Saddam
Hussein’s Iraq.

Where are the humanitarian inspectors? Where are the threats against
Mugabe? There aren’t any.

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1 response so far ↓

  • 1 scotty the body // Dec 1, 2002 at 5:37 am

    I love Pravda’s style. Every article, feature and news item is an editorial.

    That being said, I wouldn’t put this entirely out of Mugabe’s realm, and I just thank my lucky stars that I was not born in Zimbabwe, regarless of ethnicity.

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