Who’s Lyin ?

We looked for the latest info on the situation in Zimbabwe; since the return of Moe. well a bumper crop and hungry mouths aren’t a good mix; especially when the soldiers run the diamond mines..

Won’t You Take a Moment and Tell Us Please, Who Do You Believe ?

Zimbabwe has had a bumper maize crop but the hunger crisis remains

Some three million people face hunger in Zimbabwe, despite a significant rise in food production, the UN says.

Good rainfall over the past year has boosted production of the staple crop, maize, by 130% to 1.1m tonnes.

But about 2.8m people will still face food shortages this year, warned the report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation and World Food Programme.

They found that Zimbabwe’s situation remains critical with basic necessities out of reach for most households.

The BBC’s Andrew Harding in Johannesburg (the BBC is banned from Zimbabwe) says that, as so often with Zimbabwe, it is one step forward and two steps back.

The report also forecast the lowest ever harvest of wheat this winter because of high seed prices and electricity shortages.

‘Struggling to survive’

“This year’s improved harvest comes after two consecutive years of poor production,” said the World Food Programme’s Jan Delbaere, who worked on the report, reports AP news agency.

“Having depleted their food stocks and sold livestock and other assets to cope with the effects of the recent crises, many rural households are still struggling to survive.”

Zimbabwe’s vice-president pleaded for an international financial stimulus

The warning comes a day after Zimbabwe’s vice-president called on the international community to provide her country with a financial stimulus package to offset its economic crisis.

Addressing a gathering of the world’s richest and poorest countries at the UN in New York, Joyce Mujuru, a Zanu-PF member, said the lack of external support for Zimbabwe was threatening the unity government’s programme.

Also on Wednesday, Zimbabwe launched a public consultation as it prepares to draft a new constitution to pave the way for the next elections.

Plans for the charter were enshrined in February’s power-sharing pact between President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

In April, parliament elected a 25-member committee, drawn from both parties, to tour the provinces and carry out a consultation on the new constitution.

The draft document is supposed to be introduced in parliament by February next year, with a referendum to be held by July.

Until the military moved in illegal diggers were seeking their fortune

Lobby group Human Rights Watch has accused Zimbabwe’s army of using forced labour, including children, to mine diamonds in the east of the country.

Local villagers who do not co-operate with the military are beaten and tortured, the US-based group says.

Their report also details an alleged massacre of diamond diggers last year, after the disputed elections.

It urges the unity government to take control of the mines and use the revenue to help rebuild the country.

“Zimbabwe’s new government should get the army out of the fields, put a stop to the abuse,” Human Rights Watch’s Africa director Georgette Gagnon said.

“The police and army have turned this peaceful area into a nightmare of lawlessness and horrific violence,” she said.

‘Buying off the military’

The report is based on interviews done in February in Marange district.

Its researchers say that as far as they are aware, the situation has not changed since the former opposition joined the government four months ago.

Millions of dollars in potential government revenue are being siphoned off through illegal diamond mining, Human Rights Watch statement Eerie silence at Zimbabwe mine Blood diamond scheme ‘is failing’

Human Rights Watch claims control of the mines is part of a systematic attempt by President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party to buy support from the military.

The diamond fields in Marange were seized just one month after the power-sharing deal was first agreed in September 2008.

On the face of it, the military takeover was an attempt to seize control from unlicensed miners, the lobby group says.

But in reality it was a systematic attempt to enable key army units, whose support President Mugabe needed following June’s elections, to have access to riches, Human Rights Watch says.

“Documents that we reviewed that we got from the military and the police clearly indicate that this was a clearly designed system to benefit the army,” researcher Dewa Mavhinga said.

Witnesses say it involved a brutal military operation that saw some 200 people killed in three weeks.

It says army brigades are still in control forcing hundreds of children and adults endure forced labour for mining syndicates.

While the new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is touring the West lobbying for aid, “millions of dollars in potential government revenue are being siphoned off through illegal diamond mining, smuggling of gemstones… and corruption”, the rights organisation says.

If the diamond industry was legally regulated, Human Rights Watch estimates it could amount to $200m a month for the country.

It is calling for diamond exports from Zimbabwe to be banned and for the country to be suspended from the Kimberly Process – the certification scheme for diamonds – until the demilitarisation of the mines is achieved.

On Wednesday, Global Witness reported that the Kimberly process was failing – partly because of the situation in Zimbabwe.

Why is this circus still under a tent ?

The Kimberly Process is a Joke – the way Zimbabwe deals with the organizations’ rules.  look at the situation – Zimbabweans are starving;  yet they are being forced to mine diamonds.  the diamonds are exported Around the kimberly process.  netting pure profit for whomever they are smuggled for, or by.  hmmmmm can you say, Moe and Mugs ??

Seriously take a look at this lil tidbit, which made my stomach turn over

It is estimated that the diamonds could be worth $200 million a month to the cash-strapped country, but the Mining Development Corporation claimed in 2007 that it was made $15 million from gem exports.

Seriously, Somebody send in some of Abacha’s Left Over Nigerian Viagara; and a buncha them  Swazi Dancin Heffas.  I bet we can get them two stooges to show up,  without their condoms RET TO MOONWALK.. they may invite Mswati and Zuma - HOT DOG !!!!

Damn, Who died and left these two bozos in charge ?  really doh, smh

to the people of Zimbabwe I dedicate a tune :

Michael Jackson – THEY DONT REALLY CARE ABOUT US

The Associated Press: Rights group: Abuse in Zimbabwe diamond fields.

By CELEAN JACOBSON – 3 days ago

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Human Rights Watch said Friday that Zimbabwe’s armed forces have taken over diamond fields in the east and killed more than 200 people, forcing children to search for the gems and beating villagers who get in the way.

Zimbabwe’s deputy mining minister, Murisi Zwizwai, denied the allegations and said the military is there to secure the area.

More than 100 witnesses, miners, police officers, soldiers and children were interviewed for the Human Rights Watch report titled “Diamonds in the Rough.” It details allegations of human rights abuses by Zimbabwean armed forces in their attempt to control access to the precious gems.

The New York-based group said researchers had gathered evidence of mass graves and accounts of an incident last year when military helicopters fired at miners, while armed soldiers on the ground chased villagers from the area.

“There are hundreds of victims of human rights abuses that are unwilling to come forward for fear of the military,” Zimbabwe researcher Dewa Mavhinga said.

The report also alleges that some of the income from the diamond fields is going to officials of President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party, long accused of trampling on human rights and democracy in the southern African country.

The international human rights watchdog is calling on Zimbabwe’s coalition government, formed in February, to stop the alleged abuses and to prosecute those responsible.

It also is urging the international body that governs the global diamond industry to press Zimbabwe, a participant, to end the illegal trade in Marange diamonds. The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, established in 2002, aims to stem the flow of “blood diamonds” being used to fund fighting across Africa. Participants are forced to certify the origins of the diamonds being traded. This assures consumers that by purchasing diamonds they are not financing war and human rights abuses.

Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said the group is calling for the definition of blood diamonds to be broadened to include gems mined through “repression and violent abuses” by governments.

The Marange diamond fields were discovered in 2006 — at the height of Zimbabwe’s political, economic and humanitarian crisis. Villagers rushed to the area and began finding diamonds close to the surface. Mining is now managed by Zimbabwe’s Mining Development Corporation under protection of the military.

It is estimated that the diamonds could be worth $200 million a month to the cash-strapped country, but the Mining Development Corporation claimed in 2007 that it was made $15 million from gem exports.

Zwizwai, the Zimbabwean deputy minister, said the country did not have the money to fence off the area and so was using the military to secure the diamond fields.

He said there had been no deaths by the military but that there had been “skirmishes” among the illegal diggers, which resulted in three reported deaths and eight arrests.

“The special operation by security forces has been successful as evidenced by (the) order and sanity which now prevails in the Marange area,” he told The Associated Press on the sidelines of a Kimberley Process meeting in neighboring Namibia.

Associated Press Writer Rodrick Mukumbira in Windhoek, Namibia contributed to this report.

Have you seen these two stories ?

Ang San Suu Kyi is in jail, because someone swam to her imprisonment house.  she didn’t even know until she was arrested, what had happened. now we see her supporters being jailed for Praying for Her Release.

Talk About Stupid and Totally Wrong.. WRONG

Lets All PRAY That the Generals who are behind this are faced with such hard choices in their own lives that nothing else matters to them, except their own mortality. let it be quick, and let it be total. there shouldn’t be any discussion as to what to do in a case such as this. it’s clear. she’s been imprisoned unjustly for most of the last 18 years of her life, for what ? speaking out for Freedom ?

Do You Really Know the Price of Freedom ?

Ang San Suu Kyi Does..

let us not forget her, when we say a prayer, chant or wish for our spiritual positivity for the planet and it’s inhabitants.

Her imprisonment is unjust;  it’s a travesty of any form of law – military or civil.  how long will the great british colonialist moneygivers ignore this tragedy in their former sunspot ?

Don’t you think it’s about time That the Great British Parliament focused on the real problems in the world;  instead of manufactured crisis’ fed to them through a straw by frauds like moe tsvangarai ?

Gordon Brown maybe it’s time YOU STAND DOWN ,

to the generals in burma I send you this message -

Nam myoho renge kyo

I am sure you understand..

Burmese jailed for Suu Kyi prayer

Burmese in Japan prayed for Ms Suu Kyi on her 64th birthday on Friday

A court in Burma has sentenced two supporters of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to 18 months in prison after they prayed for her release.

The two were convicted of insulting religion after leading prayers at a pagoda for Ms Suu Kyi and other activists to be freed, her party said.

Ms Suu Kyi, 64, has been in detention for more than 13 of the past 18 years.

She is on trial, accused of breaking the terms of her house arrest, and is being held at Rangoon’s Insein prison.

A spokesman for Ms Suu Kyi’s party, the National League of Democracy, said Chit Pe and Aung Saw Wei were sentenced on Tuesday.

They were arrested in April after leading prayers at a pagoda in Twante, about 40km (30 miles) south of Yangon, said the spokesman, Nyan Win.

Supporters traditionally pray for the release of Ms Suu Kyi and other activists at Buddhist pagodas.

Law revived

Prison sentences for insulting religion were rare in Burma until recently, correspondents say.

But the law was resurrected in 2007 to jail monks demonstrating against the military authorities, and has since been largely used to prosecute political cases.

Nyan Win also said that three other members of the party had been arrested on 12 June after handing out photos of Ms Suu Kyi in Rangoon.

“We do not know the details about their arrest but they were detained on remand under the Explosives Act,” he said.

Observers say the charges against Ms Suu Kyi – which carry a maximum punishment of five years in jail – are designed to keep her imprisoned until after next year’s election.

Her trial is due to resume on Friday. She was charged after an American man swam uninvited to the house where she was being held, and stayed there overnight.

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And Then we see Gordon Brown Cuddling up with Snakes, who are being fattened for hogs.  how stupid is this ? you give money to the very people who tell you to go suck yourself ?

did he forget what was done, and said by Mugabe and his Thugs ?

Talk about Spineless Politics – How American of You Gordy.. maybe you need to be screened for inhalants; or something. because if this is the way you run the commonwealth, then bloody hell run it into the ground tonite, why don’t you sir..

pardon my titilation, but as a former colonial citizen, I know this is the country that will cut you off at the knees;  and toss you out in a wink.

Remember Yalta, Y’all ?

Somebody should suggest that a medical examination happen soon because he is exhibiting symptoms of paranoid schozophrenia, or possibly Alzheiers. Really Doh.  Maybe Jacqui wasn’t the only fruit in the house.  eitherway this  needs to be recinded immediately – because it’s just plain as wrong as the money given by Pres. Obama. he has lost my respect with that act – forever.  I cannot trust a man who would claim to love children and openhandedly  give money to murdering regimes to help them  exterminate those same children,  globally.

had gordy heard that his so called prime minister would probably face arrest by his pimp mugs, when he flies back in with the loot. it was an unapproved trip off the local stroll for this hoe. too bad these renegade hoes aren’t shot when they cross the track. damn shame.. really would put the game back on track. true old tyme pimps don’t tollerate these renegade hoes getting out of the frame. they shave them bald and put em right back out on the track. hmmmm,, come to think of it, he is bald. Damn guess that’s it.

NO WAY – Not Today Not Ever.. Take The British Peoples Pounds and Put them into the British Economy, where the people need it. not into Mugs Mercedes Boot, to buy more bullets and death for zimbabwean children.

Enough is Enough Okay Gordy,

UK announces £5m aid for Zimbabwe

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced an extra £5m ($8m) of aid to Zimbabwe after meeting his Zimbabwean counterpart Morgan Tsvangirai.

This takes the total this year to £60m ($98m) but Mr Brown said more money would only come after further reform.

He also said the aid would go through aid agencies, not the government in which Mr Tsvangirai shares power with President Robert Mugabe.

Zimbabwe says it needs $8bn (£4.9bn) to revive its shattered economy.

Mr Tsvangirai has been on a tour of Europe and the US to ask for increased funding but many donors are still wary of sending money which could be misused by Mr Mugabe and his allies.

Under Mr Mugabe, relations between the UK and its former colony have become severely strained.

‘Irreversible change’

Some £4m ($6.5m) of the new money is to be channelled into food aid and agriculture, with the rest towards buying text books for Zimbabwean schools.

At their joint news conference in London, Mr Tsvangirai defended his decision to share power with President Mugabe in February.

Mr Tsvangirai said “irreversible change was now taking place in Zimbabwe towards a transition to democracy and elections”.

Mr Brown said it was the first time a British and a Zimbabwean prime minister had stood together in Downing Street for 25 years.

“I pay tribute today to your courage, your determination, your strength of character and your fortitude in this tragedy,” he said.

The British premier added: “There are great signs of progress, a budget and economic plan are in place, schools are reopening, children are once again filling the classrooms.

BBC ban lifted?

“As a result of the progress, we will increase our support to help Zimbabwe move from mere survival towards a genuine recovery.”

ZIMBABWE AID PLEDGES Australia: $6.4m (£4.7m) World Bank: $22m (£14.4m) African nations: $650m (£400m) US: $73m (£44m) Germany: $35m (£21m) UK: $98m (£60m) Zimbabwe needs: $8bn (£4.9bn) ‘Why I booed Morgan Tsvangirai’ Viewpoint: Ambiguous trip Slideshow: Zimbabwe’s orphans

But he said that further money would only be forthcoming if “the reform programme on the ground gains momentum”.

He called for more economic reforms, an improvement in human rights, media freedom, the scrapping of repressive laws and an end to the invasion of white-owned farms, reports the Reuters news agency.

Mr Tsvangirai had been expected to ask Mr Brown to lift sanctions against Mr Mugabe and his officials but there was no change in this stance. These include a travel ban and assets freeze.

Up to half the population – some four million people – is believed to need food aid after years of economic meltdown.

Mr Tsvangirai also told the news conference that he hoped the ban on the BBC operating in Zimbabwe would be rescinded soon.

He said media reforms were being implemented and that the BBC should “look forward to coming to operate in Zimbabwe openly, and not secretly”.

Last week, Amnesty International said that the human rights situation in Zimbabwe remained “precarious” despite the power-sharing government.

Opposition and civil rights activists continue to be arrested by the security forces, which are still largely controlled by Mr Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party.

On Saturday, Zimbabwe’s prime minister was booed by Zimbabwean exiles in London when he urged them to return to the country.

Many were bitter that, following years of outspoken opposition to the Zimbabwe government, he had decided to join it and offer public support to Mr Mugabe.

Mr Tsvangirai is due to round off his visit to Europe and the US – his first official tour since becoming prime minister – with a stop in Paris on Wednesday before returning home.

(both news stories were from bbcnews.com – photos from google search)

Zimbabwe makes me so angry, that today I am drawing a parallel look at the situation – from the news.

first we have the story of the children, forced into prostitution – to survive. now if that doesn’t just make your heart break I don’t know why.

these children are as young as 12 years old – so how can they be old enough to be prostitutes ?

anyone who would buy sex from a child is a very sick individual. this type of abuse is created by the desparation of the situation; which it seems we write about weekly, these days.

Poverty is robbing many young Zimbabwean girls of their childhood

Growing numbers of children in Zimbabwe are turning to prostitution to survive, the charity Save the Children says.

The aid agency says increasing poverty is leading girls as young as 12 to sell their bodies for as little as a packet of biscuits.

It also claims that the coming football World Cup in neighbouring South Africa could soon make things worse.

Unemployment in Zimbabwe is thought to top 90% and many cannot afford to pay for food, medical care or school fees.

The deputy head teacher of a large school with 1,500 pupils east of Victoria Falls told the BBC that hundreds of her female students are now selling their bodies for whatever they can get.

“It could be books, it could be biscuits, chips, some even just to be given a hug.”

Throughout my conversation with the deputy head, two small teenage girls in threadbare school uniforms sat watching from a brick wall by the playground. Both are orphans.

The older one, who is 14, said she knows many girls here who have become prostitutes.

“I don’t want to do that but life is so difficult, so very difficult. Both my parents are dead and I rarely see my two sisters. Recently I stood by the river and I thought about throwing myself in but I didn’t. I don’t know why.”

There is also evidence that many girls are being targeted by child traffickers, Save the Children’s country director Rachel Pounds says.

They are thought to have plans to send young Zimbabwean girls to South Africa to work as prostitutes during next year’s football World Cup finals.

(end of bbc story)

Apparently Moe is out Hoe’n himself; and that is not being met very well in lots of places. In London on Saturday he was met by boos from a crowd of Zimbabwean expats. this was not unexpected, I’m sure. how could he even dare to show his face to anyone with his dirty hands.

he is the chief fundraiser for his pimp Mugs Hoegabe.

Don’t you think it’s time for this to stop ?

Tell Obama to Recind that 73 Large he’s sending back with Mugs – because it will never feed a child, or make a drop of clean water - in a nation of desperation.

The International community must start to speak out and act more vigorously toward this bloody regime. there is no excuse for giving any money to Zimbabwe, while there are still two year old children in jail. yes IN JAIL – 2 Year Old Kids. how can we support that ?

Tell Obama that You Don’t Want Zimbabwe’s Babies Blood On Your Hands..

Stop the Tragedy, Prevent it from stealing another generation of Zimbabweans.  Remember, if they came for your neighbor last nite, they will be coming for you this afternoon.

Amandla Awethu !

This is coverage from our friend Denford Magora’s Zimbabwe Blog – the best source for Real Honest Facts and News about Zimbabwe -

Take a look for yourself.

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This is from BBC – notice that they left out the transcript, and the reactions of the Zimbabweans, which is Key to Understanding What Happened.

Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has been forced to cut short an event where he was addressing Zimbabwean exiles due to jeering.

Mr Tsvangirai was addressing more than 1,000 exiles, whom he urged to return home to rebuild the country, during an event at London’s Southwark Cathedral.

But his appeal was poorly received as questions were raised over assurances he made about the country’s stability.

Mr Tsvangirai’s UK visit is the final stage of a tour of Europe and the US.

He has been seeking funding for the unity government he formed with President Robert Mugabe in February.

Mr Tsvangirai, the leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change who became prime minister in the power-sharing deal, said the country needed the exiles’ skills and money to help to rebuild Zimbabwe.

Our mission is to make sure that we give the people of Zimbabwe hope Morgan Tsvangirai Prime minister, Zimbabwe

During his speech, the prime minister said: “Zimbabweans must come home.”

He told the audience that improvements had been made through the creation of a “transitional” government, and that no-one had been “fooled” or co-opted.

Referring to the power-sharing deal, he went on: “It represented the best solution to a crisis that has engulfed us as a people.”

The Zimbabwean prime minister said inflation had been cut, schools had reopened and previous scarce commodities were now available, adding that the government had “made sure that there is peace and stability in the country”.

That assertion provoked a noisy reaction from sections of the audience.

Mr Tsvangirai is expected to hold talks with Gordon Brown

He went on: “Our mission is to create the necessary space, the necessary freedoms for Zimbabweans. Our mission is to make sure that we give the people of Zimbabwe hope.

“Zimbabwe is changing for the better, and that change is for you and me to ensure that we can build a Zimbabwe together.”

He acknowledged that no-one should forget the struggles and suffering of the Zimbabwean people, adding that he, as a victim of beatings and arrests, would be the last to forget the past.

However, Mr Tsvangirai told the gathering that the plan to work towards a new constitution and referendum over the next 18 months was the correct one.

The European Union still holds sanctions against Zimbabwe, and EU leaders have told the Zimbabwean prime minister they want to see improvements in the human-rights situation in the country before they consider lifting them.

The Foreign Office in London has sounded a similar note, with minister Lord Malloch Brown saying sanctions would not be lifted until Zimbabwe’s transition to democracy has “reached a point of no return”.

Mr Tsvangirai is expected to hold talks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday.

(end of bbc clip)

Take Your Freedom Seriously, because in Zimbabwe just saying the word could get you killed,

A Luta Continua, Viva Zimbabwe !