Desmond Tutu
South African Bishop Desmond Tutu has called for Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe to step down – and if he does not, the international community must intervene militarily.
“I myself felt that Mugabe should be given a soft landing,” the 77-year old anti-Apartheid activist told Dutch television last week. “I then said he should be tempted with a carrot: ‘If you step down, we will not bring you to (the International Criminal Court in) The Hague.’”
“He has destroyed a wonderful country. Zimbabwe has become an empty basket. The country needs help,” Tutu said. As a result of Mugabe’s incompetant dictatorship, Zimbabwe suffers from a hyper-inflation rate of 231 percent and a cholera outbreak that has already killed hundreds if not thousands.
Tutu joins a growing chorus of international leaders calling for Mugabe’s departure, including Kenyan PM Raila Odinga, the Archbishop of York, South African political party COPE, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, British PM Gordon Brown, US President George Bush and US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.
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"A soft landing"? Ask Mugabe's victims and their survivors if they wish to grant him a "soft landing". What about his army of thugs? The ones who terrorize white farmers, beat up opposition leaders and cut the ears and lips off people. There should be no "soft landing" for them.
Desmond is as bad as the rest of them, trust me.
The only reason he spoke out against Mugabe, was the fact that his counterpart in England did it first, so he had to keep face.