Dictator Robert Mugabe has been ruling Zimbabwe with an iron fist from 1980 to 1987 as Prime Minister, and since that as a Head of State who does not want to step down. The result is a devastated society suffering from poverty and an unemployment rate of 80%. The inflation rate there went up by 10,000%, to the extent that international institutions stopped monitoring it anymore. The opposition and the independent journalists have been continuously persecuted and even murdered despite the appeals of the United Nations and international and African human rights organizations. He is ruling with his tools of oppression and his security bodies, while the people cannot do anything to get rid of him. Mugabe's disastrous rule is about to become a genocide with the outbreak of cholera in the past few months. According to the United Nations and the World Health Organization, 746 Zimbabweans died of cholera, while 16,000 are confirmed to be infected. This figure is expected to reach 60,000 in the coming weeks.
South Africa yesterday declared its borders with Zimbabwe a disaster area in anticipation of the outbreak of cholera, and requested assistance from international and regional organizations to address the ramifications of the disease, especially the contaminated drinking water. Instead of addressing the problem, Mugabe accused the West of conspiring against his country by launching the disease there so as to oust him. Dear readers, have you heard worse than that? His people are dying, while he keeps a demagogue discourse with leftist slogans against a conspiring West. We are witnessing the result of dictatorship, namely the annihilation of the dictator's people, just as happened with the Nazi dictatorship in Germany and that of Japan with the end of World War II. The question is: Will Mugabe be left to continue in the extermination of his people, or should external interference impeach him now to put an end to the tragedy? I say without hesitation that outside interference is the only real opportunity to save Zimbabwe and give hope to its people. It is a shame that the African Union with all its Heads of State is refusing interference with Mugabe, except for some mediation. Perhaps the United States and Britain, through the United Nations, should call for international intervention to isolate that dictator.
