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Zimbabwe and the new Cowardly Colonialism
"Western intervention against Robert Mugabe’s ‘evil regime’ put Zimbabwe
into an economic straitjacket and disempowered its people" by Brendan
O’Neill, April 3, 2008

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4942/


‘We’ve beaten Mugabe’, said a frontpage headline in the London Evening
Standard yesterday. Only there were no quote marks around the words ‘We’ve
beaten Mugabe’, which made it difficult to tell if the paper was reporting
the thoughts of Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) upon
its electoral victory over Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF Party, or its own
back-slapping relish at the thought that its journalism may have played a part
in toppling Mugabe. Indeed, ‘We’ve beaten Mugabe’ could be the slogan of
political and media operators in Britain and elsewhere in the West, who like to
fantasise that Mugabe is ‘Africa’s Hitler’, that his Zimbabwe was ‘more
evil than, for example, China and Saudi Arabia’, and that it is up to the
West to ‘put pressure on Zimbabwe to change’ (1).

The media reports about Zimbabwe’s elections present them as a clash between
the ‘evil’ Mugabe and the ‘heroic’ Tsvangirai, an electoral battle for
Zimbabwe’s soul. Mugabe is depicted as having brought Zimbabwe to its knees,
causing widespread poverty and enforcing terror and repression, and Tsvangirai
is discussed as the harbinger of a dignified ‘revolution’ against Mugabeism
(2). This is a fantasy. It ignores the key role played by Western governments
and financial institutions in using sanctions, tough diplomacy and the proxy
interventionists of the South Africa government and the African Union to
isolate and harry Zimbabwe over the past decade. Such self-serving external
meddling has contributed to Zimbabwe’s economic crisis - and it has
dangerously distorted the political dynamics inside Zimbabwe and elsewhere in
the south of Africa.