Mugabe's despotic tactics

I read with disgust in the Guardian of March 17, 2008, the threat by the Robert Mugabe government to further denigrate the dignity of humanity and freedom of expression by expelling journalists from the Western world,whom it accused of spying for either the United Kingdom or the United States. It is understandable why the threat is coming barely a few days to the so-called elections in Zimbabwe. This has always been the regime's unpopular tactic and may not surprise those familiar with a desperate regime.If it is not the arrest and detention of Morgan Tsvangirai, it must be the eviction of opposition voters from their abode just before election is held. Now that Mugabe's repressive style is well known, he sees nothing good in any journalist outside his government establishment.What a disgust from a regime that has failed all forms of tests on human dignity and has lost face with all that is good and meaningful but is desperately hanging on?
He lost an opportunity to salvage the country when he drove away white farmers who were producing food for the dying masses and pretended as if nothing has happened. He has since lost touch with reality and stop wasting Zimbabwean scarce resources.Does Mugabe not know that he has caused his people more havoc than peace, headache than economic emancipation and hunger in place of bread? If he was a conscionable man, with the fear of God in him, he would have stepped aside long ago and paved the way for a charismatic, God-fearing leader with the Midas touch to salvage the famine-ravaged country from the throes of starvation, misery and squalour. He is an expired leader who has little or nothing to offer his people, who are dying for change.

Links:
Guardian

Infoplease

U.S. official website

Zimbabwe official website

BBC