The charge sheet against Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe is long and packed with crimes of both commission and omission. The World Food Program expects half the Zimbabwean population will soon need food aid. Official inflation was 231 million percent in July – the last time statistics were released. Unemployment is over 85 percent; poverty over 90 percent; and foreign reserves almost depleted. Since Mugabe took power, thousands have died at the hands of his goons. Operation Murambatsvina, in 2005, alone cost some 700,000 people their homes, livelihoods or both.
Now an outbreak of cholera has claimed around 600 lives and, according to Medicins Sans Frontieres, threatens another 1.4 million people. As there is no likelihood of an international intervention to topple to octogenarian rebel-turned-President, Britain should us its seat on the UN Security Council to table a resolution authorising the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the chain of command behind the crimes committed by Mugabe’s regime against the Zimbabwean people.
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