Will any government do something against Mugabe or will they wait until Zimbabwe is wipped out?

Question

Do you think USA and UK will have been on the case earlier if oil was to be found?...

Northern Lad, listen, I'm not blaming the Us nor the Uk for not doing anything. In fact I.m asking if ANY government will do something!!!! It's easy to say why should we do something as Mugabe doesn't want us to but think of the Zimbabweans who certainly want to get out of the tyranny and haven't got the power to do so! Isn't it what suppositely happen in Irak, save the people against the will of Saddam?

Answer 1

It will come down the the UN with a bit of luck, though Africa isn't going to be happy with French of English intervention.

I hope that there is sufficient agreement that unilaterally there is an action pan agreed that isn't going to resort to sanctions that will just mean that the poor in the country will be abused to an even greater degree than they are now.

Whatever the action is it needs to be swift and overwhelming.

Answer 2

From bread-basket to basket-case, the situation in Zimbabwe is a tragic one. Not least because it shows that when it comes to preventing genocide, Africa is once again impotent or reluctant to act. In this case, the antipathy against the white man and the misguided respect shown for the anti-colonialist Mugabe is so mesmerising that no African leader (Mandela is retired so doesn't count) it seems dares to even speak out against him.
But one can't help wondering if it was an ex-French colony, the foreign legion would have been sent years ago. Ideally, The African nations should have told Mugabe, the tin-pot dictator when to get off long ago. Had oil been involved, it would not have been granted independence to start with.

Answer 3

Some very interesting and knowledgeable answers to this question.

It makes me feel ashamed to be a part of the international community that has just let this dreadful situation happen. From a rich and successful country we now have a disaster on every front, humanitarian, agricultural, economic, wildlife etc. etc. I wish the UN could have stepped in years ago, but really the responsibility lies with the African countries, and once again they have failed miserably to protect their own. I might get hammered for this, but I don't care - the African countries cannot be relied upon to be responsible for policing and protecting their own continent.

It is not, and should not be, the role of the USA and UK alone to police the world. The international community should be strong and determined enough to always protect innocent populations from syphalitic old lunatics. I thought that was the purpose of the UN.

In answer to your question, I feel there is a possibility the USA might have taken more of an interest if there was more in it for them. But we are all to busy being politically correct and kow-towing to the African states, who have proved that by and large they are not capable of running a corner shop let alone a country.

Answer 4

Its doubtful isn't it. I agree completely the west has nothing to gain so they don't have an interest. If there is sanctions its the people who will suffer, what ever action is taken it needs to be well thought out and a recovery plan ready to be put into place immediately. It needs to be dealt with promptly the suffering and tragedy is a disgrace, its another case where we need to hang our heads in shame. Mugabe and his followers can never be educated so they need to be stopped, how that can happen? I wish I had an answer. How ever it happens the innocent mustn't suffer any more. They have all suffered so much already. Sorry to say this but keep the American government out of it.

Answer 5

There are two faces that Zimbabweans are used to seeing at election time. One is the seemingly ageless visage of their current President, Robert Mugabe, and the other is that of Tony Blair. The last polls to be held in the southern African country two years ago were billed as
the “anti-Blair” election. After seeing off rumours of a palace coup from members of his own ruling party earlier this year, Mugabe launched into a four-hour speech in which he made no mention of millions of starving Zimbabweans, nor of astronomical inflation. There were, however, countless references to the former British prime minister and his sinister plot to recolonise Zimbabwe. And so it has been for the past five years. Mr Blair told the Earth Summit in Johannesburg that the state of Africa was a “scar on the conscience of the world”.Mugabe replied: “Blair, keep your England and let me keep my Zimbabwe.” Ever since Mr Blair’s public attack on the disastrous handling of the seizure of white-owned farms in Zimbabwe, Mr Mugabe has used the notion of a foreign conspiracy to enduring effect. Meanwhile, a country that was once the breadbasket of Africa has lurched into famine and the British Government has abandoned its megaphone diplomacy in favour of back channels and what the South African government calls “quiet diplomacy”. In the 27 years since emerging as the first leader of independent Zimbabwe, the former Catholic school teacher has proven himself incredibly adept at twisting the words of his allies and opponents and staying a step ahead of both. While the 83-year-old President is often portrayed as a cartoon of an African dictator in the British press, he has managed to identify himself so completely with the independence struggle that white critics are seen as a neo-colonialist and possibly racist. The very slim hope of political progress in Zimbabwe now rests with talks under way in South Africa. The International Crisis Group, an independent think-tank, said this week that British attacks on the Mugabe regime had been “counterproductive” and sanctions “ineffective”. No one close to the drawn-out negotiations in Pretoria seems keen for Britain to pick up the megaphone again.

Nothing will be done in the Hour of Need for Zimbabweans

Answer 6

Here we go again. Blame the UK & USA for Africa`s problems.
Read this carefully:
"If the other countries in `Africa` are not prepared to do anything, why should the UK & USA???"
And please stop going on about oil, that`s complete trash you are spouting.
And, was it not Mugabe, who decided to kick all the white farmers off their own farms, farms that they have owned for generations and paid good wages to the workers.
Is it not Mugabe who is treating his country and it`s people with scant disregard??? Is it not Mugabe who is letting his people die???
Look at the farms now, they are in total ruin. And what do the neighbouring country`s do? NOTHING!
This man does not want help from Europe, he has said so himself.
So don`t you dare blame the UK & USA for this man`s regime!!!

Answer 7

unfortunately the reason the UK doesn't get involved is that it was the UK who gave Zimbabwe (formerly the British colony Rhodesia) its independence. Now it wants nothing more to do with it. Its scandalous, really. poverty, famine, brutal regimes and the like are supposed to be top of UN agendas but rarely get anything more than casual debate. Everyone agrees that something should be done, so they impose sanctions that do nothing but make daily life worse for the country's people.
If there was oil the US would have been there like a shot.

Answer 8

Absolutely and without a doubt, if it is not for the benefit of the US , the UK or for the greedy west at large including the support of the Zionism doctrine it's irrelevant to them , they will not be move by the slaughter of the millions.
Yet another proof of the Hypocrisy of the west shown in Darfur, where even some "progressive" voices cried foul in support of lame propaganda spread by the US and some the rogue entities (the Israeli lobby) to intervene and destabilize Sudan for they have allowed a minority fend for themselves..
You can see such the outrageous hypocrisy right on Google Earh , where they highlight in images the Darfur outcry...
But incidents like the one in Zimbabwe go unnoticed.

Answer 9

It is too late! The only thing that Zimbabwe had to offer the world was agriculture. The farmers have left and will not be coaxed back I am sure.

The only future for Zimbabwe is starvation, they have only themselves to blame. Their greed brought Mugabe to power.

For two countries that have a lot of scorn thrown at them, the world is always ready for the US and Great Britain to ride in like cowboys and save the day.

Instead of making the very fresh and original no blood for oil whine why don't you encourage your government to do something other than waiting for the Brits and Yanks to save you AGAIN.

Answer 10

The situation in Africa is incredibly difficult. Britain always finds itself the only country really prepared to speak out, but when we do we are accused of being colonialist and imperialist. I think the UN needs to seriously consider intervening and it's disgusting that the USA are prepared to do nothing, say nothing about Mugabe yet are quite prepared to go into Afghanistan, Iraq and possibly Iran with very little evidence.