Zimbabwe Needs Help

The situation in Zimbabwe is getting worse by the day as ordinary people and the oppositions continuously suffer threats of arrests, beatings and executions. The frightened citizens could do nothing but cower in fear. The opposition has already withdrawn their participation in this year’s election.

The international community could do nothing to at least intervene and ease out the sufferings and miseries of the people. In a recent moved taken by Robert Mugabe, he warned that only God can removed him from office. His predisposition to remain in office is what keeps Mugabe to hold onto power.

He curtailed all the freedoms and rights of his people to engage in any activities concerning social, economic and political issues. He is absolutely in control of everything, not even the superpower can persuade Mugabe to relax his tyranny.

As the lone superpower, the US could not afford to intervene militarily in Zimbabwe. Uncle Sam doesn’t want to get embroiled in another military campaign given the fact that he was blamed for ousting Sadam; for revealing the genocide committed against the Kurds and the Shiites; for helping Iraq to redeem its freedom at the hands of tyrants.

All Zimbabweans could do is to keep silent, pretend to be blind and deaf as what bigots wants them to be. Incidentally, the poor Zimbabweans are not alone in fighting the egotistic bigots. Bigots can be seen elsewhere in the world and they prowl like wolves ready to kill in an instant. But Zimbabwe really needs help.