Could Zimbabwe be the next Rwanda?

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  • Author(s): Lamb, Christina
  • Source:
    New Statesman. 2/24/2003, Vol. 132 Issue 4626, p27. 2p. 1 Color Photograph.
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    • Abstract:
      Forecasts genocide as Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's ministers talk openly of reducing the population and as the population experiences starvation. How 2,500 people die of hunger and AIDS each week in Zimbabwe; Statement that Mugabe's land reform program has left seven million people facing starvation; How his law enforcers beat, torture and rape those who oppose Mugabe; How opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and two other men face the death sentence for allegedly plotting to assassinate Mugabe; Human rights abuses tantamount to genocide; Comparison to Rwanda in 1994; How Zimbabwe youth must go to national youth service in camps where they are fed government propaganda; Lack of food cited by the farmers' organization Justice for Agriculture; International response has been the suspension of Zimbabwe from the British Commonwealth and a European Union travel ban on leading members of the regime.