From Times Online:Zimbabwe’s power-sharing deal is close to collapse after only 12 days because Robert Mugabe and his generals are determined to thwart it, Western diplomats said yesterday.
“We are looking at the possibility of this thing failing,” a senior diplomat told The Times as Mr Mugabe demanded an end to the “illegal and unilateral” sanctions at the UN General Assembly in New York last night. Another gave the deal a mere 25 per cent chance of survival, saying Mr Mugabe had entered it in bad faith and had duped the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
Both gave warning of catastrophe if the deal collapsed. One spoke of Zimbabwe’s “final implosion”, with “Ethiopian-style” mass starvation and another million desperate people flooding into neighbouring countries.
They said that Mr Mugabe believed he could flout the agreement with impunity because the world was distracted: the West was facing economic meltdown, Washington had a presidential election looming, Gordon Brown was fighting for survival and Thabo Mbeki, the former South African President who brokered the deal, had been ousted.
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My Comment: I have recently not posted any stories on Zimbabwe and the political developments that have been occurring there. The situation and the news coverage is depressing. Mugabe is a tyrant .... the fact that he personally took the time to negotiate an agreement .... which he is now breaking .... is no surprise to me.
With South Africa experiencing a political meltdown, the one country that can force Mugabe to concede concessions is no longer a factor in influencing Zimbabwe's political direction. Expect political arrests and for people to start disappearing in the next few weeks.
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