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Africa Subsaharan
World churches urge UN act on Zimbabwe 'atrocities'
2008-06-19
The World Council of Churches (WCC) on Wednesday called for United Nations action to put an end to 'atrocities' committed by the Zimbabwe authorities in advance of June 27 run-off presidential elections.
How, exactly?
In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, WCC General Secretary Samuel Kobia of Kenya said his organisation was 'dismayed at news of the brutality meted out by police and other government forces' in Zimbabwe. Kobia said the WCC, which groups Protestant and Orthodox churches representing more than 560 million Christians in over 110 countries, 'calls for an end to atrocities in Zimbabwe'.

'Harassment, beatings, arrests and ransacking of property have already extended into the churches as well as agencies of civil society,' the WCC letter declared. 'Where the Mugabe government fails in its responsibility to protect the Zimbabwean people, the international community must assume that burden; in this endeavour, the United Nations should assume a leading role,' Kobia said.
Posted by:Fred

#7  "I hope the UN hurries their lunch...I lost my ass last election cycle."
-Cunegonde's servant
Posted by: swksvolFF   2008-06-19 17:30  

#6  "could Reuters man up and stop dropping scare quotes around perfectly accurate descriptive words like atrocity?"

No.

Particularly the "man up" part.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-06-19 16:24  

#5  United Nations action

There's an oxymoron for you.
Posted by: Matt   2008-06-19 14:55  

#4  Mugabe's narrow ass is covered with WCC lipstick.
See what happened to the real first black prime minister of Zimbabwe. Name of Abel Muzorewa, a Methodist bishop.
Even the US Methodists didn't think he was marxist enough.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2008-06-19 13:30  

#3  "Ooop, religious subject, next topic."

Next on agenda, the increasing number of displaced little boys and girls.

"I see, I see..we have a motion on the floor to continue on this subject behind closed doors after lunch."
Posted by: swksvolFF   2008-06-19 12:42  

#2  I believe this is also known as "The blind leading the blind"...
Posted by: tu3031   2008-06-19 12:18  

#1  When the papers are full of reports like that immolation of an opposition politician's wife, could Reuters man up and stop dropping scare quotes around perfectly accurate descriptive words like atrocity?
Posted by: Mitch H.   2008-06-19 08:35  

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