Church not allowed to help suffering Zimbabweans

[maireteresa]

EVERY morning Father Michael looks out of the window of his Harare parish house and sees an ever larger crowd of homeless families outside. “I feel helpless,” said the Jesuit priest, who was too terrified to give his real name.
"I keep telling them my little homilies, that the violent will
not win, they will have to answer for what they have done, but I see a city ringed by fire.

“People who worked to look after their families - carpenters,
metalworkers, street vendors and caterers - have been turned into beggars by their own government. This is a crime against humanity and all we can do is give them black plastic sheeting.”

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[Catholic29]

Here is yet another sad situation that goes little noticed by our mainstream media.

While they are fixated on the Michael Jackson trial and the alleged Quran desecrations at Guantanamo, countless others are being besieged and deprived elsewhere. Though I suppose human suffering on the mass scale Zimbabwe is is not considered newsworthy these days…

What is this world coming to, and where is it going?

 

[Franze]

Very sad Muagbe and his regime

 

[Richardols]

Catholic29:

Here is yet another sad situation that goes little noticed by our mainstream media.

Though I suppose human suffering on the mass scale Zimbabwe is is not considered newsworthy these days…

Why blame news organizations? What are they supposed to do to alleviate the hardship? I’d ask instead what our government is doing about it.

You might also ask all the warlovers on this Forum who were so enthusiastic about invading another country and are so happy that we “freed 25 million” people why they’re not beating the drums to invade Zimbabwe and free its people.

 

[geezerbob]

Richardols:

Why blame news organizations? What are they supposed to do to alleviate the hardship? I’d ask instead what our government is doing about it.

You might also ask all the warlovers on this Forum who were so enthusiastic about invading another country and are so happy that we “freed 25 million” people why they’re not beating the drums to invade Zimbabwe and free its people.

Richard, you got in a couple of cheap shots there. Nobody was blaming the media for the hardships, just for not reporting it and keeping it in front of everybody.

Believe it or not, there are some people who support the war but are not war lovers. I had and still have doubts as to the real reasons we invaded Iraq, but now that we’ve done it, I feel it my duty to support it through to a successful conclusion. Also, if the UN had enforced their resolutions, we might have still been there, but as a part of a larger force and in much smaller numbers.

Last, where the heck are the African Union and the United Nations in all this? Are we or anyone else putting pressure on them to get off their butts and act in the name of humanity? I don’t know because there is seldom anything in the media about it. Maybe it’s because there’s no oil money to be skimmed.

 

[Richardols]

geezerbob:

Richard, you got in a couple of cheap shots there. Nobody was blaming the media for the hardships, just for not reporting it and keeping it in front of everybody.

Damned if they do and damned if they don’t. When they report some events, some folks on this Forum blame the Mainstream Media Boogeymen for emphasizing the negative too much. When they don’t report some events, they’ll be accused of putting insufficient emphasis on them.

 

[geezerbob]

Richardols:

Damned if they do and damned if they don’t. When they report some events, some folks on this Forum blame the Mainstream Media Boogeymen for emphasizing the negative too much. When they don’t report some events, they’ll be accused of putting insufficient emphasis on them.

A little balance might be helpful. Then everybody can be happy (or mad).

 

[gilliam]

ZIMBABWE UPDATE: It just gets worse:

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) – Zimbabwe police have extended a demolition campaign targeting the homes and livelihoods of the urban poor to the vegetable gardens they rely on for food, saying the crops planted on vacant lots are damaging the environment. . . .

The crackdown on urban farming – at a time of food shortages in Zimbabwe – is the latest escalation in the government’s monthlong Operation Murambatsvina, or Drive Out Trash, which has seen police demolish the shacks of poor city dwellers, arrest street vendors and smash their kiosks.

Amazing that Mugabe has any support left.

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