Mugabe's Defiance Is Zimbabwe's Woe

Mugabe is busy saying that the opposition is lying about the violence perpetrated against it and that the opposition is the one behind whatever violence is going on. This, from the thug who has said that nothing but god will remove him from power.

Mugabe, who has refused to accept the results of the presidential election and demanded a runoff, thinks the opposition is making things up:

Mugabe said the Movement for Democratic Change was compiling names of alleged victims and falsely claiming that their supporters were being beaten up. He faces opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in the June 27 runoff. Tsvangirai won the first round but not by an outright majority.

"They say this so that they can later say the elections were not free and fair. Which is a damn lie," the state Herald newspaper quoted him as saying at a campaign rally in the western city of Bulawayo.

That's right folks, the fact that opposition leaders and their wives were brutally murdered is just not true.

Mugabe's arrest of opposition leaders continues.

Thousands of people have been displaced by the fighting and Mugabe's goons are busy intimidating the population into silence.

In one bit of good news, a Zimbabwean court has ruled that Tsvangirai's opposition party can hold a pre-election rally. It remains to be seen if that decision will hold, as numerous other rallies have been banned, to say nothing of multiple arrests with trumped up charges.

Some of Zimbabwe's neighbors are finally speaking up about the violence, but South Africa remains mum to its great shame.

I have no doubt that Mugabe will attempt to rig the June 27 runoff election, to accomplish what he was unable to do in the original election despite such attempts. Mugabe's ruinous dominion over Zimbabwe has led to famine, economic collapse, and a racist economic policy that forcibly removed whites from their lands. He's on the record as saying that Tsvangirai's party isn't sufficiently black enough, and the overt racism is astounding.

Zimbabwean journalists have called on Mugabe to stop his war of terror against the opposition.

Responding to Mugabe's recent threats to go to war if he loses to opposition rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, the journalists said: "Evidently, the war has already begun in the form of horrendous beatings and murder of both known and perceived opposition supporters in the entire country.

"Daily news reports emanating from Zimbabwe point to the fact that Zimbabwe is a country at war and findings by both local and foreign observers as well as family and community accounts overwhelmingly point at Zanu PF as the sponsor of the terror that has paralysed Zimbabwe."

UPDATE:
South Africa's actions in defending the indefensible Mugabe is stunning.