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Pieler and Laurson: ’Urgent Need for Joint Effort to Freeze Mugabe Out’ June 27th, 2008
IPI senior fellow George Pieler is featured with International Affairs Forum editor-in-chief Jens Laurson with a new op/ed in South Africa’s Business Day, entitled “Urgent Need for Joint Effort to Freeze Mugabe Out.”

Pieler and Laurson write:

ROBERT Mugabe has again driven a stake through hope for a civil and propitious future in Zimbabwe. A campaign of violence, terror and murder against the political opposition achieved its goal: Morgan Tsvangirai, the Movement for Democratic Change’s (MDC’s) presidential candidate, withdrew from the runoff “election”, giving president-cum-dictator Mugabe his “resounding victory”.

No observer should be surprised, but apparently many were.

The March 29 elections, in which Mugabe’s Zanu (PF) came in second after Tsvangirai’s MDC, were mistaken for a sign of democracy and a precursor of change . Instead they were merely a slip-up by the ruling thugs, who had underestimated how much violence was needed to get Zimbabweans to vote “correctly”. That lack of suppression has since been more than made up for.”

To view the full article, please visit Business Day online.

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Author: Erin Humiston || Location: Lewisville, Texas, USA

 

  
 
June 27th, 2008

Pieler and Laurson: ’Urgent Need for Joint Effort to Freeze Mugabe Out’

Posted in  Politics 
Author: Erin Humiston || Location: Lewisville, Texas, USA

IPI senior fellow George Pieler is featured with International Affairs Forum editor-in-chief Jens Laurson with a new op/ed in South Africa’s Business Day, entitled “Urgent Need for Joint Effort to Freeze Mugabe Out.”

Pieler and Laurson write:

ROBERT Mugabe has again driven a stake through hope for a civil and propitious future in Zimbabwe. A campaign of violence, terror and murder against the political opposition achieved its goal: Morgan Tsvangirai, the Movement for Democratic Change’s (MDC’s) presidential candidate, withdrew from the runoff “election”, giving president-cum-dictator Mugabe his “resounding victory”.

No observer should be surprised, but apparently many were.

The March 29 elections, in which Mugabe’s Zanu (PF) came in second after Tsvangirai’s MDC, were mistaken for a sign of democracy and a precursor of change . Instead they were merely a slip-up by the ruling thugs, who had underestimated how much violence was needed to get Zimbabweans to vote “correctly”. That lack of suppression has since been more than made up for.”

To view the full article, please visit Business Day online.