Voice from the Commonwealth Commentary, World Views and Occasional Rants from a small 'l' libertarian in Massachussetts
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
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In a separate development, soldiers arrested about 20 displaced farmworkers building a camp outside Harare to accommodate hundreds of other farm labourers forced from their homes by President Mugabe's seizures of white-owned farms for redistribution to landless blacks.
Elphas Mukonoweshuro, professor of politics at the University of Zimbabwe, said the worsening repression signalled Mr Mugabe would be "casting his net wider" against his critics. "The international community must take note this is no ordinary African dictatorship," he said. "It's a very dangerous regime with revolutionary rhetoric and uses armed military units against unarmed civilians. We are at the beginning of what is likely to be a very disastrous period for this country."
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