{"id":195654,"date":"2008-06-24T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/24\/zimbabwe-6\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T22:54:00","slug":"zimbabwe-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/24\/zimbabwe-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Tsvangirai says that he will leave the Dutch embassy shortly, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/06\/24\/news\/UN-GEN-UN-Zimbabwe.php\">UN Security Council is now saying that the violence has made the runoff election a sham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, it does not help that the <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/2008\/06\/24\/africa\/24zimbabwe.php\">African National Congress has explicitly rejected any international intervention<\/a>, though the Congress of South African Trade Unions has called Mugabe&#8217;s regime illegitimate.<\/p>\n<p>As Will Bunch says, the only way to get a meaningful intervention there is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/blogs\/attytood\/I_hope_they_discover_oil_in_Zimbabwe.html\">find massive oil reserves<\/a>, so perhaps the MDC needs to start drilling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Tsvangirai says that he will leave the Dutch embassy shortly, and the UN Security Council is now saying that the violence has made the runoff election a sham. Needless to say, it does not help that the African National Congress has explicitly rejected any international intervention, though the Congress of South African Trade Unions &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-civil-rights","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195654"}],"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=195654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}