Should international and African groups intervene in Zimbabwe?
The UN has estimated that 200,000 people are homeless as a result of the Zimbabwe government's action, and it has been reported that two children were crushed to death when the illegal structures they were in were demolished.
President Robert Mugabe says that the crackdown, currently in its fourth week, is needed to "restore sanity" to the urban areas, which he says have become overrun with criminals.
The African Union has rejected calls from the US and the UK to put pressure on Zimbabwe saying it had many more serious problems to consider than Zimbabwe.
What do you think about the crackdown, known as Operation Murambatsvina [Drive out rubbish]? Is the African Union right to reject becoming involved?
This debate is now closed. Thank you for your comments.
The following comments reflect the balance of opinion we have received so far:
Mugabe's biggest error was destroying the best run agricultural sector in Africa, just so he could hold power a little longer. This lead to poverty and starvation, which in turn, drove the country populace toward the cities, leading to the slums being created in the first place. If the African Union will not get involved, we should end our involvement in aid etc to any African Union nation. Any cry of hypocrisy can simply be answered by this: If they can't be bothered to get their own house in order, why should we fund them?
Curtis, UK
All we hear is cancel the debt, make poverty history, yet while we are supposed to clear the debts Mugabe is clearing away homes and businesses, and the African Union (wanting debts cleared) will not condemn him. No human rights for Africans NO debt relief.
A.Warner, Bristol UK
Nepad was touted as Africa providing good governance and encouraging investment and the West providing investment and aid. If Africa is unwilling to criticise and chastise Mugabe, then the West should be unwilling to provide aid.
Mike, Worcester, UK
The AU says it had many more serious problems to consider than Zimbabwe. I think Zimbabwe has already become a serious problem that will only be solved when the tyranny of Robert Mugabe finishes.
Daniel Fernandes, Alverca, Portugal
The reason the Africans are reluctant to do much is because they are suspicious that this noise by Britain and the UK is another excuse to throw hot coals at the man who grabbed land from their friends. A man who is not afraid to challenge the two superpowers.
Princess, Gaborone, Botswana
 |  They are in effect saying corruption and murder is acceptable |
I had family which had to leave Zimbabwe due to the violence and problems. I would have thought that after five years of seeing what is going on the AU would have had some balls and acted. By refusing to condemn Mugabe they are in effect saying corruption and murder is acceptable. As a result I for one will be campaigning (in any way I can) for aid, debt relief or fair trade to most African countries to be halted. Until they clean up their act they deserve no help.
Rod, UK Murderers like Mugabe and his thugs have done far worse than this to our African brothers and sisters and gotten away with it while fools parrot the excuse he is somehow "standing up to Western powers". God curse all Africans for letting this happen - we never, ever learn. Until we can put aside tribal rivalries we will always be a little people.
Julias Gajani, UK (Ex-Ivory coast)
I note that a spokesperson for the African Union believes that these are the actions of an elected government, the implication being that the elections were fair. I'm not sure how many people actually believe that's true. But even if it is, there is no justification for the manner in which this is being carried out and the world should hang it's head in shame for standing by and watching. Maybe it's the beginning of the end for Mr Mugabe and Zanu PF, but what a human price to pay for non-intervention.
Mike Widdop, Weston Super Mare, England
This is a bunch of hypocritical nonsense! It took months to get even the slightest bit of outcry about the Darfur situation and there still hasn't been anything said about other problems all over the continent but somehow this is different and a bunch of westerners have decided to complain. What are you whining about? This goes on all over Africa and all over the world and no one has so much has lifted a finger to stop it. I think this is pre-G8 rhetorical rubbish.
Daniel, Birmingham, AL, USA The UK and USA want a change in leadership in Zimbabwe. That's why everything which Zimbabwe did is bad for them. In this case, they want to influence African leaders to be involved in a crackdown on Zimbabwe.
Michael Henry Magesa
It really makes me smile when I read how outraged everyone is. Why? Is this just not par for the course for this madman? This is happening all over Africa today in varying degrees but nobody really cares because it's black on black violence. We here in South Africa just watch all the leaders in Africa float in and out of our country on their way to one or the other "summit" "meeting" or whatever that is going on at the moment. African Leaders love doing that - having "indabas" - get togethers to talk about aids or HIV or whatever. They stay in 5 star hotels and shop until they drop - thinking that nobody notices anything. And at the end of it all, they all face the West and say "gimme" "gimme" "gimme". If it wasn't so tragic it would be laughable.
You think someone is going to care about stopping that insane, cruel man Mr Mugabe? Naaah maybe when he has turned Zimbabwe into Ethiopia - maybe then. But until the G8 start making Africa accountable until they stop writing off debt and then just giving them more - nothing is going to change.
Nadia Strydom, Cape Town - South Africa
That Mugabe is a brutal dictator like Hussein and Kim Jong Il is something we already know. What really strikes me is the attitude of South Africa. The South African government as the power broker in the region should use its influence to moderate Mugabe's paranoia. Instead, Mbeki and the rest of the AU sit and watch while yet another huge-scale human tragedy takes place in Africa.
Nicolas Canal, Bogota, Colombia Debt cancellation and aid only prop up these evil regimes.
P, South Africa
I am appalled both by the situation in Zimbabwe and the reluctance of the other African nations to help put a stop to it. We all too often hear that Africa should be left to sort out its own problems without interference from 'colonial powers'. That would be fine if Africa helped itself, but it never seems to.
Jonny, UK
It is sad that Zimbabwe seemingly has gone to the dogs. However, I agree with the AU that Africa has more serious problems that need to be tackled. Where is the UK and US when the AU asks for more funds for the Darfur crisis? What about Congo? It seems that the UK and US only are doing what they are always good at - adopting a 'humanitarian' policy only when it suits their interests.
Kiazin, USA
This is another example that shows President Mbeki is not competent enough to use his position of power to full effect. His ignorance of Mugabe ranks as high as his health departments ignorance of Aids. How can any leader justify what Mugabe has done? Whilst his people have become poorer with mass starvation, homelessness, unemployment, and poor health care, Mugabe and his cronies have benefited by spending the much needed money on their own needs.
Simon, Leicester, England While the current demolitions are indeed very tragic, these types of demolitions occur all over the world to shanty town residents with little or no outcry from the international press. Even in the US we see public housing projects torn down for middle class condo's while the poor have no place to go.
Khalil Tian Shahyd, New Orleans, Louisiana
The comments from the AU makes my blood boil. I see the people of Zimbabwe toiling under great difficulty. It's high time the politicians of Africa step up to the challenges of their wonderful continent. They seem confused - blaming the west for interference on one hand, wanting handouts the next. Stop whinging and take some responsibility for the state of your countries.
Richard, Bath
What is most frustrating as an African is seeing and hearing the so-called 'new generation' of leaders making the same tired excuses for ignoring the outrageous behaviour of their peers. Africa needs strong leaders who understand the difference between right and wrong - treating people with humanity and without discrimination is right - treating them like they are less than human is a crime against every human in the world.
Obe Ownoko, London
England is making a noise about nothing and it knows it. Can one just build a house in England without a permit or without paying for the land? Let's be realistic people.
Bhinya, Harare
| It's a waste of time and effort calling on the clean-up operation to stop |
The fact that the AU and South Africa have clearly told the west, led by Britain and USA that they will not intervene in Zimbabwe's internal affairs should send signals to those powers that gone are the days when they dictated what Africa should do. It's a waste of time and effort calling on the clean-up operation to stop since it is not going to stop. Instead the West should be offering solutions to the problem of lack of proper houses in the country if they really care as they purport.
Nhema, Harare, Zimbabwe As expected the AU still has its head in the sand. As a regular contributor to the likes of Comic Relief (and I was at Wembley 20 years ago), I am sorry to have to say that I will not be giving any more of my cash to prop up a palpably inept and corrupt continent. Africa - heal thyself.
Chris, Manchester, UK
Maybe the African nations should stop blaming their own problems on 100 year old colonialism, stop foreign aid corruption that means the money gets spent on weapons to kill each other and start thinking about providing a decent standard of living for their own people.
Scott, UK
All of these calls for the US and UK to intervene, yet the African Union (who along with the UN, should have this responsibility) has decided that they won't get involved. As a US Soldier for over 20 years, I'm sick and tired of being sent away from my family to "rescue" the rest of the world. Time for someone else to step up. Why don't they give Kofi Annan or Jacque Chirac a call? Stop calling Tony and George.
Mary, Virginia, USA
When will people stop playing the "there's no oil in Zimbabwe so no-one will help" card? It is churlish and lazy that people tout this phrase without any understanding of the workings of the Zimbabwean economy. The farming conditions in Zimbabwe are (or rather were) second to none. The country has had every opportunity as the most educated in Africa, to relieve itself of this regime yet has stagnated due to inaction and lack of cohesion. How about this? All those lucky enough to be given land in the reform, actually work together and farm it again. Properly?
Cole Whitelaw, UK (formerly Zimbabwe)
| These organisations don't do anything. The UN will never come to the rescue of poor African countries |
Reading all the comments makes people like me laugh. Some are saying that the UN or African Union should do something. The only thing they can do nowadays is make noise that they want debt cancellation to all developing countries. Look at what happened in Sudan, Rwanda and Ivory Coast. These organisations don't do anything. The UN will never come to the rescue of poor African countries. Rwanda is a good example of that. Zimbabweans have to die in millions before the world starts reacting.
F, Mutare
In the last two days the BBC ran a comparison between Ghana and Malaysia, and the differences were obvious, among them the street vendors and shack dwellings of Ghana. Zimbabwe is not yet at that stage but was coming up fast. Question is, does the West take pride in reporting on unending seas of filth and disease in Africa? Is it wrong to set some standards of life? Please stop this hypocrisy? Compare what's happening in Zimbabwe and that in Darfur, and the hypocrites stand out like a sore thump.
Masimba, Accra, Ghana
| If you stayed in Zimbabwe and had seen the way a lot of some those shacks had mushroomed, how the town had become filthy and unnecessarily crowded, you would understand |
I stay in Harare so I am writing about what I know and see daily. What is happening is both good and bad. It is bad in the way and timing it has been executed. If you stayed in Zimbabwe and had seen the way a lot of some those shacks had mushroomed, how the town had become filthy and unnecessarily crowded, you would understand a thing or two before you opened your mouth to complain!
Most of the people are complaining about what they don't know about. You go by what some reporter has written to sell his article. Right now the town is looking clean, you can move around without 10 people trying to sell you a watch you don't need. You can visit the shop of your choice without having to dodge three shacks just to get to the door! People are being forced to renovate and make their buildings more presentable.
The two mistakes that I believe the government made on the housing demolitions was that they: Did not give the people enough time to evacuate. They should have at least told people a few months in advance! And they didn't give the people a ready alternative. The government talks of new housing schemes now. They should have put the Housing Schemes in place first and then moved the people!
For your own information I have several close friends that have been affected and am praying and believing in God that I won't be asked to leave my place when they reach my area in a few days time. But I still believe it was a necessary action but very bad timing and execution. If nations are genuinely concerned let them help to build decent shelters and provide food rather than other pointless political suggestions!
Tatts, Harare
I think the neighbouring countries and foreign groups should act immediately. It is this operation and Mr President that should driven away. The world should act, as soon as possible as words are not solutions.
Amanuel Teka, Asmara, Eritrea
I am deeply concerned with this situation as I am one of the victims. I am now seeking refugee status in one of the neighbouring countries and I have left my family behind.
Jasper Masamba
How much chaos and garbage is strewn all over in London and Washington. People argue that the displaced were earning a living; from what; were they adding any value to anything. The situation as it was, was perpetuated poverty. If the West wants to help they should resume the aid package to Zimbabwe. A recent Unicef survey showed donors were giving the Zimbabwean child 10% of what every other child was getting in SADC.
Zhara Takarima, Masvingo
| Don't you always hear them saying no interference in internal matters of other states? |
Why can't we be realistic? How can Condoleezza and Straw expect to see the so-called African leaders take strong action against the regime in Zimbabwe when they are also doing the same thing to their people but in other forms? Don't you always hear them saying no interference in internal matters of other states? That's how they cover up themselves.
The operation on its own was not too bad, if well planned. The same way they jumped into the agrarian reform without taking precautionary measures that's how they've also done with this operation. I am personally grateful to the human groups that are sympathetic the plight of the people of Zimbabwe.
Kapinga Ntumba, Harare, Zimbabwe
It is actually inhuman for the Zimbabwe government to destroy hundreds of houses although I do recognise that most of them are illegal structures. Instead a solution should have been found, such us compensating them and allocating new plots, so that they can build decent houses.
Wycliff Mulenga, Lusaka, Zambia
| It is this culture of 'you support me, I reward you' that is a great threat to our democracy in Africa |
It is very inhuman for Mugabe's administration to be saying these demolitions are restoring sanity. It is this culture of 'you support me, I reward you' that is a great threat to our democracy in Africa. I feel Mugabe wants to make those who did not vote for him in the urban areas suffer the consequences. This is somehow similar to events happening to Malawi at present where the president is suffering because of this culture. Typical of Africa. I feel the foreign groups should intervene in Zimbabwe.
Cecilia Chisale, Malawi
The city does need a clean up... yes. However about 80% of the people that are suffering are innocent. Not all structures are found in squatter camps. Most are decent liveable structures which are helping to alleviate homelessness. In a country with a high rate on unemployment who can afford to build better homes. Not only are they destroying the structures but a person's belongings in the structure. Please Zimbabwe needs your help and intervention! We live each day never knowing if we'll be next. We have no where else to go.
Lyke, Zimbabwe
This crackdown is a clear shot at the opposition with a veiled attempt at calling it operation clean up rubbish. Why has the government resorted to making people homeless during its darkest economic hour? No logic is evident and it is of great concern that South Africa continues to keep the country functioning without any voice on the humanitarian crisis that has precipitated.
Malcolm, Georgetown, Guyana
Forget all your favourite shows on TV; just watch the African Union for comedy. Apparently they have "more important things to deal with than Zimbabwe". Possibly - Darfur and DRC. Maybe I'm missing something, but the AU isn't doing anything about either of those. They simply have meetings and discuss. And do nothing.
They stated a few years that they wish to build an African Union just like the Europeans built the EU. (Refer to my previous comment about comedy.) The West should stop all funding to this wasteful, pointless, corrupt organisation. If the AU continues the way it seems to be going, it will soon be as relevant as the UN.
DS, London, UK
Look at the hypocrisy. Many houses are being demolished in Iraq by the superpowers everyday. No-one cries foul. Zimbabwe destroys illegal houses, no bombs dropped and the western powers cry foul. Am I missing something here? Why are the parts not adding up?
Mubangi Abel, UK
I find it incredibly annoying how people who aren't Zimbabwean are saying how what is happening is good but just being done in the wrong way. Unless one has been there one will not know the extent to which this problem is. The situation is beyond terrible with most of country homeless and starving. UN intervention is required! Why is it that international agencies only go in when situations become detrimental? The international world needs to go into Zimbabwe and make a change, this country is in desperate need of help, with everyone turning a blind eye!
Tafadzwa, London
| Everybody is making noise simply because it is Mugabe again |
Let us for once stop this hypocrisy. Everybody is making noise simply because it is Mugabe again. Worse things than these are happening in Togo where people are being kidnapped at night and killed secretly. The whole world pretends not to know this. Children like the one who by accident was killed during the demolition in Zimbabwe die everyday in Iraq.
In Nigeria many years ago Maroko was demolished and a lot of people died. Nobody said a thing and the area was divided among high ranking army officials and their acolytes. Even recently in Ghana there were such demolitions of illegal structures as well as in Abuja and all the major cities in Nigeria. America and Europe should get off Mugabe's back and stop their hypocrisies.
Akouwa, Lome, Togo
Zesa (Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority) Holdings, an electricity distribution parastatal, had anticipated a huge shortfall of electricity supplies during this winter and had actually warned of load-shedding of up to three hours per day during peak hours. Now that these illegal dwellings have demolished such plans have been shelved because the limited electricity supply is now adequate. It proves that these demolished shacks had been drawing electricity illegally without paying. Jack Straw does not live here. We do and we are seeing the benefits.
Shupai Darare, Harare, Zimbabwe
| How is this talking at the G8 going to help the thousands homeless in winter in Zimbabwe tonight? |
What use is aid or writing off African debts when leaders like President Mugabe demolish homes and businesses and farms. The G8 should help sort Zimbabwe out first before talking about Africa. How is this talking at the G8 going to help the thousands homeless in winter in Zimbabwe tonight? Even aid agencies are banned in Zimbabwe not to mention the foreign press.
It's time Mr Blair and Mr Bush started tackling dictators first even if they don't have oil. If you give a man a fishing rod he can feed his family but if the president breaks it they have nothing. If no-one stops that president are they not permitting or tolerating that behaviour?
Peter Ross, Harare, Zimbabwe
What we see is the beginning of the end of the regime of Mugabe and his cohorts. The suffering ordinary people will go through will depend on the degree and speed of international intervention. South Africa should take the lead and act now.
Gerhard, Suva, Fiji
It's a global disgrace that the world has allowed Mugabe to do what he has done to the people of Zimbabwe in the last week or so. The world's leaders should stand condemned.
Julie Keast, Newcastle, Australia
Intervention is a must right now because 200,000 people are homeless thanks to Mugabe's "restoring sanity" campaign. External pressure from everyone including the UN, African Union, his neighbours and his few allies is greatly needed. If Mugabe wants to "restore sanity" in the urban areas, he should provide a plot of land for these people to build new homes and lives. The people are helpless and fearful to rise against Mugabe because he has installed a sense of fear amongst the Zimbabweans and yet the world is just watching from afar.
Firdaus, Singapore
It is truly unfortunate, not to mention tragic, that in his waning days, President Mugabe would unleash the wrath of his dying regime on the poor and disenfranchise people of Zimbabwe. Even wholesale condemnation of these heinous acts by a regime in the throes of death by the international community will not suffice. Want it or not, the international community should take decisive action, including military intervention, to stem the tide of the suffering unfolding in Zimbabwe.
Phlson Victor, Stroudsburg, PA , USA
The timing of this couldn't be more relevant to the G8 meeting this week in which further discussions to cancel debt to African nations is taking place. Here is a leader who has single-handedly bankrupted one of Africa's most prosperous countries in less than five years and when more than 80% are unemployed and desperately seeking income from the informal sector he's busy making life even more miserable for them.
This is the real reason why Africa is poor. With people like this in charge of African countries no amount of aid or debt relief is going to significantly change their futures. Yes, for the sake of humanity, outsiders should intervene. The G8 countries would do better to impose harsh conditions on the African Union to encourage them to pursue justice among their own.
Andrew, Thailand (ex Zim)
What a shame that the so-called leaders of other African countries are silent.
Les Wilson, London
The time has come for the international community to refer Zimbabwe to the UN security council for action. Time is up for this African tyrant.
Patrick Tum, Prague, Czech Republic
Those whose comments here suggest that it's perfectly normal for this operation 'drive out the rubbish' to take place, and that the UK or US wouldn't tolerate 'illegal' structures either, are completely naive to the real Africa. Africa is poor, there aren't enough jobs, people flock to the cities, there isn't enough housing, millions of Africans live in squatter camps and illegal settlements all over the continent.
This is normal. They are resourceful survivors, they join the informal sector and set up as street side vendors, they probably have to bribe the police to do this, but they find a way because their governments can offer them little. In Zimbabwe's case they are there simply trying to feed themselves and there is a thriving black market because of systematic mis-management and ill-doctrine from the Zimbabwe government.
When people are living on the breadline and then you take this away from them simply to 'clean things up' you are committing a grave human rights violation. The UK and US would provide social relief before evicting anyone.
Jane, Zimbabwean in UK
| Why has it taken 25 years to pull down these illegal structures? |
This man has split families and as long as the rest of the world watches he will carry on doing as he pleases. One question comes to mind "Why has it taken 25 years to pull down these illegal structures? When I was living in Bulawayo and Harare theses structures where there and didn't seem to bother any one. I believe this man wants the people to riot so that he can then impose martial law so as to have a free reign to do what he wants when he wants.
Rossco, Auckland New Zealand What on earth is quiet diplomacy? It should be called what it really is - fear of conflict, lack of excellence, or just pure slackness. Part or the course in Africa. God forbid that I should raise my children by "quiet diplomacy" - they'd be in prison before they made it to university...
George Eastland, Auckland, NZ
I fail to understand why people are blaming Mugabe for his evident madness. This is a tragedy purely of Mbeki's making; he could have brought this tyrant's reign to an end long before now if he was minded to do so. And yet what do we see? The red carpet at yet another G8 summit! Who says the West is not complicit in our misery?
UE, Kent, UK/Nigeria
To UE of Kent: You accuse Mbeki, excuse Mugabe and then somehow the West is responsible. African brothers and sisters wake - "when plantain don rot, make una no pretend say e de ripe. Wetin no good, no good; talk am clear, talk am loud". African leaders have shirked their responsibility and have the blood of the dead from the cleanup on their hands. Mbeki, Obasanjo, speak up, citizens of Africa... Speak Up.
Adesina Olugbenga, London/Nigeria
Mugabe is doing the right thing but in the traditionally brutal African way. The campaign is doing just what it says: driving out the rubbish, the open-sewage, and garbage-strewn squatters' camps which are schools and havens for criminals. These people all came from the country to make an easy buck any way they can and have turned these cities into trash. I wish Brazil would do the same in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Jeremy, Atlanta, USA
| They should intervene by providing huge sums of money to help these people build decent homes with water, electricity and toilets |
Yes, they should intervene by providing huge sums of money to help these people build decent homes with water, electricity and toilets. I am a little surprised or is it confused by all the brouhaha, obviously, these people have lived in shacks for a number of years, why is it that the international groups did not help then? Which neighbouring country would have the resources to help? Zambia? South Africa or is it Botswana?
Unless by intervention you mean bombing Harare to a pulp, in which case, Britain, as the country with the best knowledge of the terrain and state of the art firing power should take the lead. After the tsunami in South East Asia the BBC did not take polls like this, asking people whether they wish to help. You simply directed people where to send money. To me they both look like humanitarian issues. Am I missing something here?
Gerald Mwaanga, Chicago, USA
A lot of hand wringing here but when someone actually did something to stop Saddam Hussein and his gang of Baathist thugs, half the world went ballistic. Remember Saddam Hussein? Most of this outcry is just for show. The majority of complainers don't really want anything done or they would be down at the UN marching and begging Donald Rumsfeld to spare a division or two for a few weeks to put this guy out of business.
Mark, USA
Why don't Bush and Blair think of a regime change in Zimbabwe? Is it because there is no oil to exploit? Is preaching of democracy and freedom only for Middle East?
SH Moulana, Colombo, Sri Lanka
This operation is an outrage. The international community should get involved and do whatever it can to stop this and make reparations to the victims.
Brenda Erickson, St Paul, USA
US should stop preaching about human rights etc when they themselves are just as guilty. They have lost respect in this world. Double standards by western nations is not going to do any good. What is needed is a solid intervention by non-western governments, mainly developing countries which are far more influential and respected, in dealing with Zimbabwe. Also then it will mean that Mugabe cannot point a finger at western interference.
Kay, UK
We, Zimbabweans will keep on suffering in the hand of Mugabe, people will continue to starve and lose their homes. Who would want to intervene anyway? Zimbabwe does not have the riches the world so called desires for example oil. This has been going on for a very long time and nobody has intervened. And yes I am very much affected by these demolitions - who is going to house and feed our people now? Who will and would intervene - nobody. This is insane.
Paula, UK
This is insanity! When a government makes a decision about its own country it has the right to do so! He is not killing people say like the US and Britain are in Iraq. These two countries have no place in the moral high ground game. I thank African leaders for not bowing to imperialist pressure!
Yonathan, Los Angeles, CA, United States
It is another interesting test of the relevance of the UN and its ability to get things done. Who are the men and women that run the UN? Where do these ineffectual politicians come from? Maybe Bush should cook up another spurious reason for regime change and go for Mugabe.
Duncan, Reading, UK
| These people that the West is so concerned about were living in plastic anyway |
These people that the West is so concerned about were living in plastic anyway. They were living in unauthorized areas which would not be permissible in the West. If the West is so concerned about these people, why have they not helped similar people living in shanty towns all over Africa?
How would you feel if ten of these people came and built their houses outside and just next to your well built house? For whatever reason, Mugabe is doing a great job to rid the cities of criminal activities.
Munya, St Louis, USA (Zimbabwean)
Why should they? Does the EU intervene every time the British government makes the Gypsies or travellers move?
Mutongwinjo Muchamama, Slough, UK
Zimbabweans have suffered enough with no respite. Where is the international community? As for Mbeki, Zimbabweans will certainly not ever forget him.
Ndabezinhle Moyo, London
If neighbouring countries had intervened earlier, the destruction of people's homes and lives would have been avoided. It is so sad that it has taken this long for them to realise how cruel Mugabe and his police have become.
Keith Farquharson, London
This is complete insanity. Leaving these people homeless is almost putting them to death. Then preventing them from growing food? The world is asleep.
Eric Haskett, Amherst, Ohio, USA
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