disease outbreak, a symptom of the larger state of distress, the shuttering of public services, the dementia of a state of demise.
but alas, the eternal question: what is to be done?
the political settlements have collapsed, the political bickering is all that continues of the due process of law and governance; the people of zimbabwe have collapsed, famine, disease, hopelessness ravaged;
with no hope for a brighter future, people will lose the will to cope with the present.
what is to be done, when the will for action is exhausted before it has even begun? what is to be done, when the actors in this cruel drama spend all their time in rehearsal, producing nothing, and caring nothing for the audience streaming out of the theater?
what is to be done when the international community is so paralyzed by their own plight, that murderous dictators can move unabated through their killing fields without fear of justice?
what is to be done, when, in recent history, civilians in need of protection from their own governments have met with nothing but blind stares and empty promises? when there is simply no appetite in the West for leadership or contribution to peacekeeping forces, when the drift created turns into a tsunami of neglect, when the collateral damage of taking out the primary target is worth the strike, yet nobody is standing behind the trigger?
what is to be done with old Mr. Mugabe and his band of cronies, driving Zimbabwe into a ditch of colossal proportions?
The Secretary General of the UN commented on the situation in stark terms:
Mr Ban said he was deeply concerned that nearly half of the country's population of 12 million people could require food assistance and that many people were reportedly cutting back on their daily meals.
He added that he was distressed by the "collapse of health, sanitation and education services, and the consequent rapidly escalating cholera outbreak".
