Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

The tyrannical Mugabe in his iron-fisted rule has seen his own assets increase to the level where he is estimated to be a billionaire.  Meanwhile the standard of his people has consistently and lamentably dropped to the current level of a pittance.  

White farmers whose families owned and richly cultivated their properties for generations, extending back to when the nation was called Rhodesia, saw Mugabe's thugs grab their properties from them and force them to leave the country.

In a June 5 New York Times article written by Celia W. Dugger reporting from Johannesburg, Amnesty International was complaining sharply against Mugabe's latest move of detaining Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition leader of the Movement for Democratic Change.  

Tsvangirai was detained by police for 9 hours on Wednesday (June 4) and "charged with drawing a big crowd."  He was released late in the evening.

One of the Movement for Democratic Change offices in Mosingo Province was burnt to the ground by unidentified Mugabe militia forces after three people who were sleeping there had been shot to death.  This brings the number of Tsvangirai supporters killed since the reformist candidate's victory in the March elections to 65.

To quote from Dugger's article, "Amnesty International condemned his (Mugabe's) sharp and dangerous crackdown' that has included killings, torture and intimidation of the political opposition."

An office of the Movement for Democratic Change in Masvingo Province was razed to the ground after three people who were sleeping there were gunned to death by unidentified militia members.  The assailants poured gasoline on the bodies and set them and the office on fire.

A human rights doctor has been treating two severely burned victims of the Masvingo tragedy in Harare.  This same doctor has recently treated more than 1,700 victims brutalized by the repressive Mugabe regime.

Human Rights Watch has called on the government to reverse its decision to bar aid to agencies delivering food to Zimbabwe.  The government halted all such efforts from CARE, one of the world's largest humanitarian groups.  All such efforts were halted on the premise that the work of aid groups is to assist political forces opposing the Mugabe regime.

The international community needs to take a vigilant position against a ruthless dictator who builds his own wealth on the dead and injured that he has trampled to maintain power.

Does any rational observer have any doubt what the ultimate result will be of any election cycle in Zimbabwe as long as Mugabe is in control?  Can anyone envision him abdicating power under any condition but forced necessity?

The fair result would be for Mugabe to be tried for his steady patterns of repression involving the killing of opposition force and trampling the rights of others to deliver property into his hands along those of his cronies.

The venue to try Mugabe would be the International Court of Justice at The Hague along with the ultimate disgorging of his vast assets, distributing them among his victims and their families.