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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
For better or for worse, the majority of the population was not "starving" before Mugabe started seizing land in 2000
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Ty, that's just not true. Huge portions of the black populace were starving, or were severely malnourished because Zimbabwe's farmland was devoted to tobacco or to corn (and people cannot survive on cornmeal). Why do you think people were demanding land reform if food was plentiful.
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The starvation that you see there now is the direct result of Mugabe taking working farms (from white farmers, mostly) and giving them to political hacks who cannot run them. I'm not saying that Zimbabwe was the platonic ideal of racial justice or anything, but Mugabe has caused this crisis as a response to his domestic political troubles.
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No dispute there. Nor do I dispute that Mugabe denied food to the Ndebele (I've never heard that claim before, even from Ndebele partisans, but I don't particularly doubt it). Nor do I dispute that this is genocide.
But, again -- what would you do? It seems that your answer is "there wasn't any problem to address," yet I cannot believe that you are so ignorant.
