Amadou Kabir, Your points on Zims and Mugabe are indeed very interesting. I agree that the whole issue is basically economic interest but we also have to admit that Mugabe had 20 good years to act on this land re-distribution issue and he didn't. Look at what Mugabe is doing to his own people...state sponsored thuggery and terrorism. Look at the ZANO-PF thugs burning down people's houses, beating pregnent women and disabling independent media houses. Infact i want to believe that Mugabe is still not intersted in a fair land re-distribution in his country. The fact of the matter is that the guy is losing and he is using every measure to cling to power including building controversy over the land problem. Indeed the fertile lands in Zims have to be redistributed but at whose expense because 80% of the farms forcibly seized are not utlized or managed properly. Rather than spend large sums of money maintaining an army in a usless war in the DRC, Mugabe colud use that money to help resettle the poor farmers on the newly acquired lands. But he will never do that. Instead he will be happy harassing poor people for a problem that is his own making. so let Mugabe act. But you know what he will not because the commitment is not there. I want to believe that for Mugabe he will more at ease to have a chaotic and strangled democratic institutions so that he can remain in power. Whenever his thugs kill an oppenet(a citizen of Zim) he is not bordered. But whenever those same people even organise a mare political meeting he confortably sends his police with orders either to maim or kill. This the everyday predicamet for the already over-stretched ordinary Zims. Mugaabe's madness is a dergerous trend for Africa because any dictator can just do the same thing and the by time the world acts it is already too late. Let the land issue be resolved...but let Mugabe also gives and accepts the rights of his opponents to life and political divergence. I am always very upset when i see African governments peddle this nonsense of development at the expensive of people's rights. Zims could have been a better place now had Mugabe acted a long time ago. If he is to continue blaming people for the same problems happening 20 years ago then his leardership credentials are questionable! E Sillah --- Amadu Kabir Njie <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Hamadi, > > I've always taken Mugabe's side on this issue. The > Blacks were forcibly > removed from those lands by whites because they > possessed superior weapons. > Plain, daylight armed robbery! Today, they talk > about the rule of law. Give > me back what is mine, then we can begin to talk > about the rule of law. > History didn't begin when Mugabe with the backing > edicament are "Western", > read (cowboy). > > Regards, > > Kabir. > > > ________________________________________________________________ Nokia 5510 looks weird sounds great. Go to http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/nokia/ discover and win it! The competition ends 16 th of December 2001. <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>> To view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>