UN rights chief Navi Pillay yesterday urged the West to suspend sanctions against Zim-bob-wean leader Bob MuggsyMugabe
Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case...
and his close aides to give the country a chance to implement much needed reforms.
Ummmn... It's not the sanctions that make Zim a kleptocratic state with an oppressive one-party system. The former Breadbasket of Africa didn't tank because of the sanctions.
"I would urge those countries that are currently applying sanctions on Zim-bob-we to suspend them, at least until the conduct of the elections and related reforms are clear," she said in Harare after a five-day visit.
The sanctions don't do a thing to inhibit the one-party system.
"Sanctions should be entirely suspended for people to entirely focus on economic issues that need to be addressed."
"I have yet to hear a single Zim-bob-wean inside the country say they definitely think sanctions should continue," she said.
Zim-bob-we immediately welcomed Pillay's calls with Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa saying the embargo should be scrapped "unconditionally".
"We want sanctions to be lifted unconditionally. We do not want any talk about suspension of sanctions, they have to be lifted unconditionally because in the first instance they are illegal," he told a news conference shortly after Pillay spoke.