Thursday, June 16, 2005

Silent diplomacy is useless

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The UK Times has an editorial discussing the Hatfield krystalnacht...the author pleads for Tony Blair to intervene with African leaders:

The humanitarian need in the country is overwhelming. Zimbabwe was already a country staring disaster in the face. Now, with nearly a million people displaced, most without shelter or the means of earning a living, the situation is becoming a catastrophe.

The African Union must demand that the International Red Cross and United Nations relief agencies are given unrestricted access to Zimbabwe to deal with the internal refugee and food crisis, as they would in any other disaster situation.

The organisers of Live 8 must urge the millions of people who will enjoy the concerts on July 2 to demand that politicians attending the G8 summit get their heads out of the sand and push Zimbabwe’s plight to the top of their Africa agenda.

But many of those leaders are almost as bad as Zimbabwe...as for all the internal refugees and food crisis, this is one way to stop the international community from complaining about it: jail the messengers:

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