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One may not want to review the article below but observe these
children so thin that their belly's bulge (Kwashikor or protein
deficieny where bloat and third-spacing begin) and ask yourself
why speak down to "America" (still a world leader) about allowing
the death of those with severe brain damage and many years of
"forced feeding" and a whole nation is starving.

Worse yet they disallow aid or food to be brought in. Is is better
to kill innocents, those put on this earth by a loving God one that
gives them the ability to be born, to eat, to live a somewhat healthy
existence.

Where is the energy put when thousands are dying, children cannot
go to school (to save the 2.25 school fee for food), and parents are
marrying off young girls in order they not feed them.

These are normal people, born without disability or despair. Look
at these children, the day will come soon, perhaps a week, or two
where they will lay dehydrated unable to stand, dying. Did God put
them on earth for this purpose?

And America is characterized as a "murderous sect" well what is
this in Zimbabwe what is it I ask? No to me it's not "racism" this is
what "starvation and murder is about" and what are we doing what
are we saying in our great nation? What are other nations saying as
one woman's feeding is ended after 15 years of brain death and no
progress. This is no longer ECONOMIC or even a "human rights"
issue for we are talking of thousands of healthy people starving, and
aid being sent and denied.

Focus your strategy for the disabled to those being "murdered
or euthanized at birth without comfort measures" and on nations that
abort the "wrong sex babies" or deny reproduction based on population.
Oh for those who speak of God look within.

Peace,

Karen G.

Yes this is the REAL STORY of starvation, just ONE....

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/02/opinion/02kristof.html?th&emc=th

OP-ED COLUMNIST
Another Kind of Racism


Naka Nathaniel/NYTimes.com
Governmental policies have left the six rail-thin children cared for by
Thandiwe Sibanda undernourished.



By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Published: April 2, 2005


UBIMBI, Zimbabwe
The hardest place in the world to be an optimist is Africa.
Much of Africa is a mess, and no country more so than Robert Mugabe's
Zimbabwe. The continent has been held back by everything from malaria to its
nonsensical colonial boundaries, but the two biggest problems have been lousy
leaders
and lousy economic policies - and Zimbabwe epitomizes both.
What makes Robert Mugabe a worse oppressor of ordinary Zimbabweans than the
white racist rulers who preceded him is not just the way he turned a
breadbasket of Africa into a basket case in which half the population is
undernourished.
It's also the fact that he's refusing to let aid organizations provide food
to most of his people. He prefers to let them starve.
In one western Zimbabwean village, I found a woman, Thandiwe Sibanda, who is
trying desperately to keep her family alive. "I'm the only one left to care
for the children," she said. "My husband died, along with his other wife."
So now she is trying to provide for her own four rail-thin children as well
as the two children of the other wife (who presumably died of AIDS along with
the husband - so Mrs. Sibanda will very likely die of it as well). "All we can
eat is corn porridge," she said, "and there isn't nearly enough even of that."
Mrs. Sibanda is adopting the same survival strategies as nearly every other
peasant family I spoke to - they are down to one or two meals a day. She pulled
her children out of school last fall to save the $2.25 in annual school fees,
as are many other families. Her daughter just had a baby a few days ago but
has no milk to feed it. The infant may be the first to die.
Jealous Sansole, a member of Parliament who opposes Mr. Mugabe, told me that
in his district, people are already beginning to die of hunger. I didn't see
that, but malnutrition is probably speeding up deaths from malaria, diarrhea
and certainly AIDS.
The only reason more haven't died is food aid. Mrs. Sibanda's village, for
example, until recently received regular food distributions from the World Food
Program and the Save the Children Federation.
But last year, President Mugabe declared that Zimbabwe did not need food
assistance. This was a lie, but Mr. Mugabe ordered the World Food Program and
the
aid groups it works with to stop handing out food to the general population.
Some groups continued to distribute food that was in the pipeline, and I
visited some villages that received food until January. But now the food aid has
all ended. At an elementary school I visited, the principal said that
three-quarters of the pupils could not afford breakfast and came to school
hungry.
Along the border with Mozambique, poor families are marrying off their daughters
at very young ages so they will no longer have to feed them.
If the old white regime here was deliberately starving its people, the world
would be in an uproar. And while President Bush should be more forceful in
opposing Mr. Mugabe's tyranny, it's the neighboring countries that are most
shameful in looking the other way.
There's a liberal tendency in America to blame ourselves for Africa's
problems, and surely there's far more that we should do to help. We should
encourage
trade, forgive debts, do research on tropical diseases and distribute mosquito
nets that protect against malaria. But some problems, such as Mr. Mugabe, are
homegrown and need local solutions, like an effort by South Africa to nudge
him into retirement.
One of Africa's biggest problems is the perception that the entire continent
is a hopeless cesspool of corruption and decline. Africa's leaders need to
lead the way in pushing aside the clowns and thugs so their continent can be
defined by its many successes - in Ghana, Mali, Cape Verde, Mauritius, Uganda
and
Botswana - rather than by the likes of Idi Amin, Emperor Bokassa and Robert
Mugabe.
There's a twinkle of hope, for Nigeria and other West African countries have
shown the gumption to denounce seizures of power in Togo and São Tomé. But
South Africa is still allowing Mr. Mugabe to cast a pall over the entire
continent out of deference for his past fight against white oppression.
Frankly, Zimbabweans have already suffered so much from racism over the last
century that the last thing they need is excuses for Mr. Mugabe's misrule
because of the color of his skin.
E-mail: nicholas@...



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