{"id":195635,"date":"2008-06-25T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/25\/its-been-a-busy-few-days-in-zimbabwe\/"},"modified":"2008-06-25T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T22:23:00","slug":"its-been-a-busy-few-days-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/25\/its-been-a-busy-few-days-in-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Been a Busy Few Days in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Tsvangirai&#8217;s withdrawal from the runoff has, if anything, <a href=\"http:\/\/voanews.com\/english\/Africa\/Zimbabwe\/2008-06-24-voa52.cfm\">intensified ZANU-PF thuggery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, in response, you have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/25\/world\/africa\/25zimbabwe.html\">the African National Congress coming out in favor of doing nothing about all this<\/a>.  Increasingly, I believe that there are elements in the ANC who believe that Mugabe&#8217;s fate will be theirs one day, and so they will support him to the bloody end.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Tsvangirai is calling for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/marketsNews\/idUSL2525430720080625\">international isolation and armed peace keepers<\/a> before a fair election can be held.<\/p>\n<p>I will say that when the most effective action taken on all this so far is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/06\/25\/europe\/EU-GEN-Britain-Mugabe.php\">Queen Elizabeth II stripping Mugabe of his knighthood<\/a>, you know that the regional and international response is pretty pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/briefingroom.thehill.com\/2008\/06\/24\/obama-condemns-mugabe-speaks-with-tsvangirai\/\">has condemned Mugabe, and has talked with Tsvangirai on the phone<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, this surprises me.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that there is really any electoral advantage in all this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Tsvangirai&#8217;s withdrawal from the runoff has, if anything, intensified ZANU-PF thuggery. Of course, in response, you have the African National Congress coming out in favor of doing nothing about all this. Increasingly, I believe that there are elements in the ANC who believe that Mugabe&#8217;s fate will be theirs one day, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,971,1032,1000,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-civil-rights","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-elections","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195635"}],"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=195635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}