Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Mugabe opens UN Food conference...

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In a surprising development, a regional conference on food safety for Africa jointly organised by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) was officially opened by Robert Mugabe in Harare on Monday. In his opening speech, Mugabe defended land seizures as a way of bringing "food to the people". He said: "In our fight for freedom and independence, one of the pillars of the struggle was land grievance -- land, land, land, which means food, food, food to the people,". ...

To many Zimbabweans who are starving it is a slap in the face from these international organisations to allow the one person they hold responsible for their suffering to open this conference on food safety and stability. ...

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