Liberty Scott on Nobel Peace Prize

Monday, October 12th, 2009 at 11:00 am

Liberty Scott summarises things well:

The best sentiments I’ve noticed on this, is that Morgan Tsvangirai, who had been mooted for the prize, has been imprisoned, tortured, beaten up repeatedly, lost his wife in an accident, and STILL decided for peace in Zimbabwe, to form a joint government with the murdering gangsters of Zanu-PF.

Apparently that wasn’t good enough. Not good enough for an African man in Africa at the front line of essentially civil war and insurrection, in a truly bankrupt economy, to risk himself so much to bring peace and justice to Zimbabwe. He may have been able to do much for Zimbabwe with the US$1 million prize.

But instead it went to Obama for some nice speeches.

I don’t think you can criticise Obama for this. From all accounts he is as mortified as everyone else, and this actually makes his job much harder.

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Hope for Zimbabwe

Monday, August 11th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

After years of insanity, there is some hope in Zimbabwe. The Telegraph reports that a deal is close which will see Mugabe remain President, but many powers transferred to Morgan Tsvangirai as his Prime Minister.

As much as I would like to see Mugabe put on trial, a peaceful solution is desirable, and if it has to involve immunity for Mugabe and his henchmen, so be it.

While anyone is better than Mugabe, it is worth noting Tsvangirai is no angel, and Zimbabwe path  back to relative peace and prosperity could be a very long one.

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