The BBC reports the latest ravings from Zimbabwe’s resident lunatic megalomaniac:
I will never, never, never surrender. Zimbabwe is mine, I am a Zimbabwean. Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans… I won’t be intimidated. Even if I am threatened with beheading, I believe this and nothing will ever move me from it: Zimbabwe belongs to us, not the British.
Mugabe also said that the international condemnation of his handling (er, non-handling) of Zimbabwe’s ongoing cholera epidemic was “a pack of lies”, and that an African Union military intervention in his country would be “an unnecessary war started in a foolish manner because of foolish persuasion coming from foolish sources.”
It’s times like these that a dictator like Mugabe begins to look almost comical — except for the very serious consequences of his rule.
Who was that wise man who once said something about the banality of evil?
Photo by www.steveconover.info (Creative Commons)
Eva Holland
Eva Holland is a freelance writer, Senior Editor of World Hum and a longtime contributor to the Matador community. She lives in Canada’s Yukon Territory and blogs about Alaska and Yukon travel at Travelers North.
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