This:
The men who pulled up in three white pickup trucks were looking for Patson Chipiro, head of the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district. His wife, Dadirai, told them he was in Harare but would be back later in the day, and the men departed.
An hour later they were back. They grabbed Mrs Chipiro and chopped off one of her hands and both her feet. Then they threw her into her hut, locked the door and threw a petrol bomb through the window.
The killing last Friday – one of the most grotesque atrocities committed by Robert Mugabe’s regime since independence in 1980 – was carried out on a wave of worsening brutality before the run-off presidential elections in just over two weeks. It echoed the activities of Foday Sankoh, the rebel leader in the Sierra Leone civil war that ended in 2002, whose trade-mark was to chop off hands and feet.
Hillary was right. This is just like the DNC punishing a state for breaking party rules and holding their primary early.
Chris Johnson
Hey, make up your mind. Either set up a donation box to pay off her campaign debts, or savagely snark on things she said in the previous phase, but not both ‘k?
Incertus
Yeah, I’m with Chris on this. I mean, P. Luk is still bleating about how the R&B Committee was out to get Clinton from before the primaries even started, but he’s nuts–we know he’s not going to let it go. Don’t be that guy.
Face
A little grotesque and petty this early in the morning.
The Moar You Know
Let it go, John. We won. No need to keep rubbing the Clinton supporters’ faces in it.
John Cole
My bad.
les
I guess the moment is passed, and we all need to be nice; but this comparison I thought was one of the most raw, disgusting, egomaniacal efforts out of the Hillary campaign. Thousands forced from their homes (’cause they can only vote where they live), hundreds killed and beaten and terrorized–and a procedural ruling that she doesn’t like is just as bad. No one who thinks this way has a place in government.
KCinDC
Here’s one vote for doing neither. Obama is the nominee. I think we can take a break from talking about Clinton for a few months.
Cris
Let’s change the subject. Obama apparently does not have the support of the Libyan superdelegate.
Richardson
The Powers the Be made all of Obama’s voters disappeared in Michigan. That’s ethnic cleansing par excellence!
EnderWiggin
Agreed. She lost, it’s over. Unless she does anything new to screw him in the general, let it go.
Jon H
There was another incident in Zimbabwe where a man who simply invited neighbors over to listen to the election results was hauled off to a reeducation camp, where barbed wire was tied to his penis and to some heavy logs, which he had to pull. He died.
slippy hussein toad
I thought Mugabe was standing down, but I guess a murderous dictator’s work is never done, until someone manages to successfully smuggle a blasting cap into his personal limousine, or gets a lucky shot off.
Or the international community finally does somethinga bout him and just drags him off to the Hague. But having that scrummy piece of shit die of natural causes in office after this kind of crap is just karmically wrong.
trollhattan
I’d be all for South Africa playing Vietnam to Mugabe’s Pol Pot. Somebody needs to throw that bastard into a spider hole, stat!
Too bad Zimbabwe doesn’t have major oil reserves, somebody would have done this eons ago.
GoMS
Don’t they have any oil for the US gov’t to go take over? Why don’t American gov’ts show that much interest in invading countries like this one?