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| Human Rights Watch Urges Mugabe to Respect Freedoms |
| 2013-09-05 |
| [An Nahar] Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... on Wednesday urged Zim-bob-wean President Bob MuggsyMugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... to prioritize the protection of rights, following his re-election in a disputed vote. "President Mugabe should seize this opportunity to set Zim-bob-we on a path that respects rights and the democratic process," HRW's director for southern Africa Tiseke Kasambala said in a statement. "Placing human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... at the top of the agenda would send a clear message that Zim-bob-we is committed to honoring its human rights obligations." The global rights body has long expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... at Zim-bob-we's poor record for human rights. It called on Mugabe's new administration "to embrace a new, positive rights-respecting approach to governing". On July 31, Mugabe extended his 33-year rule after winning the general election with 61 percent of the vote. Morgan Tsvangirai, his former prime minister and leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, won 34 percent. The controversial vote was endorsed by the regional Southern African Development Community (SADC) bloc and the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... but rejected by Tsangirai who denounced it as a sham. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 The key word here is "Watch". They do a lotta watching. And make a lotta noise. And raise a lotta money. Other than that... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2013-09-05 12:12 |
| #2 Shouldn't HRW be working up the fund appeal letter with all of Obama's war crimes already touted? Oh, wait, that might get a call from the IRS and they'd have to reveal their donor list. Never mind. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-09-05 08:53 |
| #1 He'll do much better in his second 33 years. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-09-05 01:52 |