Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Zimbabwe – When will the world stop this genocide
I don’t see this on US Network ‘News’ shows (I use the word show purposely). Every day, there are stories about the misery in Zimbabwe. It goes a long way beyond the Cholera epidemic that is more widely reported. People are getting cholera because they are forced to drink from sewers. And this in a country that used to be known as the bread basket of Africa!
There is a terrible genocide taking place before our eyes and no country is doing anything about it. Exactly what are we waiting for? In 2002, CBC of Canada said that 6.7 million Zimbabweans faced starvation. By now, that figure will seem low, as almost everyone in the country (pop. 11.35m) is in that predicament. As of 3 years ago, 700 people a day were dying of AIDS.
In case you need it, here’s some perspective: As of the beginning of this year, the birth rate in the UK was 10.65 births per 1,000 people and the population growth rate was 0.276%. Those figures were 14.18 and 0.883%. And Zimbabwe? 31.62 birth per 1,000 and a population growth rate of -0.787%. The Infant mortality rate in the UK was 4.93 per 1,000; in the US it was 6.3; in Zimbabwe, 33.86.
There is a rather dark joke in Zimbabwe that the definition of an optimistic Zimbabwean is one who thinks that the country has hit rock bottom. Sadly, it hasn’t and it won’t until Mugabe is removed.
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There is a terrible genocide taking place before our eyes and no country is doing anything about it. Exactly what are we waiting for? In 2002, CBC of Canada said that 6.7 million Zimbabweans faced starvation. By now, that figure will seem low, as almost everyone in the country (pop. 11.35m) is in that predicament. As of 3 years ago, 700 people a day were dying of AIDS.
In case you need it, here’s some perspective: As of the beginning of this year, the birth rate in the UK was 10.65 births per 1,000 people and the population growth rate was 0.276%. Those figures were 14.18 and 0.883%. And Zimbabwe? 31.62 birth per 1,000 and a population growth rate of -0.787%. The Infant mortality rate in the UK was 4.93 per 1,000; in the US it was 6.3; in Zimbabwe, 33.86.
There is a rather dark joke in Zimbabwe that the definition of an optimistic Zimbabwean is one who thinks that the country has hit rock bottom. Sadly, it hasn’t and it won’t until Mugabe is removed.
