via A carpet is fingered in Fallgate – The Zimbabwean 11 February 2015
An inanimate object – a carpet no less – has since been ‘fingered’ as they say, in Fallgate. Mugabe’s humbling fall gives rise to the question: what makes 14million Zimbabweans – and the indeed the rest of the world – laugh at an elderly man.
Mugabe is not a sweet old man. Let nobody mistake his suit and tie for a gentleman. On his watch 20,000 civilians died very cruel deaths in a decade of indescribable terror. There are mass graves in Matebeleland in which bullet-riddled skulls are piled on top of each other. In the violent land seizures of 2000, many farm workers and farmers lost their lives.
In 2008, when Zimbabwe finally said ‘ENOUGH’, Zanu (PF) militias maimed, raped, threatened and killed civilians, adding 200 more corpses to Mugabe’s long catalogue of human rights offences.
When you grew up without a father, because Mugabe’s army burned him alive, or if, at some point in your life, you have been unable to sit because your president’s militia dribbled hot, molten plastic onto your bare buttocks, you are entitled to laugh when the cause of your sorrow is photographed on his knees.
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Beautifully said. I couldn’t have said it better. My peoples pain( that is all Zimbabweans) has been created by this evil man. If Ian Smith was bad , Mugabe you are more worse . WHY . It’s simply in your genes.