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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (22062)	8/15/2001 7:14:32 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

The US is being genuinely principled over Zimbabwe. It's taking the lead in limited sanctions; Last week, the US Senate approved and passed on to Congress a bill that threatens sanctions unless the Zimbabwean Government respects democratic rule and law and order, and carries out a legalised land reform programme. President Mugabe has denounced the sanctions threat as racist and aimed at thwarting his efforts to "correct colonial imbalances". news.bbc.co.uk The IMF has also halted aid because of the violence and lawlessness, and this would probably not happen without USapproval if not positive backing. It's rather awkward for the UK. We were the last colonists of what was then called Rhodesia, which broke away forcefully from the UK in (I think) 1961 rather than see independence under a black government; but Mugabe, who came to power relatively peacefully in 1980 with strong British backing now gets much mileage out of blaming 'colonialism and the white man' for all the ills of his country... and any British recommendations, actions etc. are more likely to be rejected solely because of their source. We were actually providing substantial aid for resettlement, but this was stopped in 1997 after the 'redistributed' land was found to be going to ZANU party leaders... oddly enough, that's when we began being demonised. There's a lot on Zimbabwe here: news.bbc.co.uk and in general, the broadsheets and BBC do carry a good amount of African news - probably because of our history. (We get very little news on Latin America, by comparison).

To: The Philosopher who wrote (22062)	8/15/2001 3:57:56 PM
From: E	Respond to of 82486

I see that thames_sider posted on this. siliconinvestor.com I've read interviews with black Zimbabweans who acknowledge that things are worse for them now than they were when the British were there. Talk about sad. Thames wrote: We were actually providing substantial aid for resettlement, but this was stopped in 1997 after the 'redistributed' land was found to be going to ZANU party leaders... oddly enough, that's when we began being demonised. That is, of course, what I was talking about when i referred to 'redistribution' meaning mostly redistributing from whites to a few powerful blacks and their cronies, with crumbs finding their way to the cadres. Racial demonization will be used as long as it's useful. And of course it's infinitely useful. It is being used to evade responsibility in this country, too. It is a real bad situation in Africa, given the deep governmental corruption, the lack of attachment to the norms of parliamentary democracy, AIDS; and it's getting worse; and i don't see any way out of it. All those innocent children being born into that.