Friday, January 7, 2011

How Wikileaks Helps A Tyrant

WikiLeaks Gives Dangerous Ammunition To A Tyrant -- Washington Post

As the latest diplomatic WikiLeaks trickle down from the headlines to remote parts of the world, we can begin examining their effect.

Take Zimbabwe, whose fragility makes it an instructive test case. This is a nation liberated, looted and then ground to dust by a single man: Robert Mugabe. Elections in 2008 were stolen by Mugabe's ruling party, but they produced an uneasy coalition government, with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai as prime minister. Zimbabwe is now simultaneously attempting to write a new constitution, control periodic outbreaks of Mugabe's brutality and prepare for elections that may take place later this year.

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My Comment: Only 1% of the cables have been released .... leaving 99% more to go. We should not be surprised that as more cables are released .... they will only end up aiding tyrants like Robert Mugabe and his kind.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I'm not against and I'm not for Wiki-leaks, but I do think that if things were handled properly we wouldn't be in this situation to start with, so.

What is done in the dark, almost always it sees light!