{"id":190425,"date":"2009-11-29T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/29\/zimbabwe-update\/"},"modified":"2009-11-29T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T21:05:00","slug":"zimbabwe-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/29\/zimbabwe-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimguardian.com\/?p=1642\"><\/a>Well, it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve posted on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>The macro picture is that Mugabe continues to refuse to behave in accordance with any of the agreements that he signed, and Tsvangerai can&#8217;t do much about it, and the SADC in general, and South Africa in particular, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">won&#8217;t<\/span> do much about it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of a dysfunctional stasis.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, the trial of Roy Bennett, the MDC treasurer and nominee for deputy agriculture minister, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2010\/01\/14\/world\/AP-AF-Zimbabwe.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">government&#8217;s star witness has said on the stand that his earlier testimony was coerced by torture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The judge has ruled that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/26\/world\/africa\/26briefs-Zimbabwe.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">eter Michael Hitschmann&#8217;s confession cannot be used against Bennett<\/a> because of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve posted on the subject. The macro picture is that Mugabe continues to refuse to behave in accordance with any of the agreements that he signed, and Tsvangerai can&#8217;t do much about it, and the SADC in general, and South Africa in particular, won&#8217;t do much about it. It&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,971,972,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-civil-rights","category-justice","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}