Zimbabwe: Kenya's Prime Minister Calls On African Leaders to Oust Mugabe

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Source: Allafrica

In the strongest indication yet that African leaders are finally turning their backs on Robert Mugabe and his murderous regime, Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Thursday said it was time for African governments to oust the ageing dictator.

Mugabe's steel grip on power has seen the once prosperous country deteriorate into chaos. Zimbabwe's economy and social systems have collapsed, and it is becoming daily more clear that serious and immediate intervention is needed to spare thousands more lives in a country ravaged by crises.

Thousands of Zimbabweans have already died in what has become a physical battle to survive, with a desperate food crisis and critical cholera outbreak threatening to kill off genocidal numbers of the public. Combined, imminent starvation and a disease that is out of control are threatening the lives of half the country's population. The UN has warned that up to 5 million people face starvation by January, while international medical assistance organisation, Doctors Without Borders, says 1.4 million people are already threatened by cholera


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Finally, Someone standing up to the GENOCIDE. Kenya has much to be proud of.

[LostinVA]

1. Good -- Mugabe is a murdering, sociopathic dictator

I always shocked by people on here who defend him in any way.

[humbled_opinion]

2. Anyone that defends Mugabe is most likely a

Neo-Liberal.

[acmavm]

3. Or Pat Robertson.

[Vogon_Glory]

4. Would That Were True

Unfortunately, there are some DUers who live in a dualistic world where there is either the wicked US corporate fascists on the one hand, or anti-imperialists on the other. It's a simplistic mindset that doesn't allow for examination of unpleasant facts, and since Robert Mugabe is obviously NOT a corporate-fascist, the simplistic-minded lump Mugabe in with the good guys, and no amount of evidence to the contrary is enough to sway them.

At the risk of getting tombstoned, I not only believe that an elected leader of a representative democracy not only has the obligation to respect the spirit and forms of such a state, but he or she also has the obligation to promote the general prosperity.

IMO, Robert Mugabe has failed at both, and failed miserably, and I'd be saying it even if Robert Mugabe was blond-haired, blue-eyed, fair-skinned, and of impeccable caucasian ancestry.

[Posteritatis]

5. Responsibility to Protect for the win. (nt)

[On the Road]

6. It Is a Dangerous Exception

in that African states have been very successful at avoiding boundary disputes and wars by keeping out of each others' business. However, there have been exceptions before. Julius Nyrere finally got fed up with Idi Amin, sent the Tanzanian army after him, and all-out war was avoided.