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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
For better or for worse, the majority of the population was not "starving" before Mugabe started seizing land in 2000, although he has denied food to certain ethnic groups in the past -- when whites do this, it is often called genocide. Zimbabwe was the breadbasket of southern Africa. The starvation that you see there now is the direct result of Mugabe taking working farms (from white farmers, mostly) and giving them to political hacks who cannot run them. I'm not saying that Zimbabwe was the platonic ideal of racial justice or anything, but Mugabe has caused this crisis as a response to his domestic political troubles.
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Exactly. And no one should think this seizing of land was peaceful. It was not in the least.
