How can a government murder its people?

The Guardian yesterday ran an incredible video piece filmed and bravely smuggled out of the country by a police officer .... for the first time we see the vote rigging under coercion by a "war veteran", the shocking treatment of MDC politicians .... and the brutality of daily life in Zimbabwe today ...

Shepherd Yuda driven by the violence and despair all around him, risked everything to courageously film undercover ....



"I had never seen that kind of violence before. The impact has left a lot of orphans; it has left a lot of people displaced. You cannot expect that from your government. You expect that from a rebel group. How can a government that claimed to be democratically elected kill its people, murder its people, torture its people?"

Earlier this week Matt Frei, of the BBC, wrote an great op-ed piece warning against the new axis of impunity - Burma, Darfur, Zimbabwe amongst others ....

If we want to regain any moral standing or legitimacy ... we must show our outrage now and not let this become the age of non-intervention .... for example Frei urges us to check whom our banks support (e.g. Barclays) and to flex our protest muscles collectively and individually .... otherwise what Shepherd says about Zimbabwe may become reality for more and more of us ....

"This country has become a boiling pot where only stones can survive ..."