WikiLeaks' Collateral Damage

[IScreamSundays]

Source: Wall St Journal

Morgan Tsvangirai, the prime minister of Zimbabwe and the leader of its democratic opposition, has endured countless indignities at the hands of President Robert Mugabe. In 1997, thugs tried to throw him from the window of his 10th floor office. In 2002 and 2008, he had elections stolen from him and his party, the Movement for Democratic Change. After that most recent ballot, he had to hide at the Dutch Embassy in Harare for fear of his life. A year later his wife died in a mysterious car crash that many assume was the regime's dirty work.

Add to this litany the news that he may be tried for treason. Mr. Mugabe has already gone after him three times with trumped-up charges, but this time Mr. Tsvangirai will have someone additional to blame: Julian Assange of WikiLeaks.

Last week, the crusading "anti-secrecy" website released a diplomatic cable from the U.S. Embassy in Harare. It describes a 2009 meeting between Mr. Tsvangirai and diplomats from the U.S. and the Europe, both of which have imposed sanctions on the Zimbabwean regime.

Since 2009, the two leaders have worked together in a fragile governing coalition. Though the unity government has made some progress—including replacing the worthless Zimbabwean currency with the U.S. dollar and South African rand—Mr. Mugabe still controls the "hard" ministries like the army, police force and security services.

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[villager]

1. Ah, the Wall Street Journal.

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[Downwinder]

2. Wall Street Faux??

[sabrina 1]

3. I haven't read the whole article. But did they bother to say what

Morgan Tsvangirai was exposed for?

He was publicly declaring that he wanted the crippling sanctions imposed by the usual suspects on his suffering nation, while in secret he was telling the U.S. to keep them in place so that the people would be angry at Mugabe.

Iow, he was willing to let many of his people starve in order to gain power.

While I have no time for Mugabe, anyone who is working against their own people as Morgan Tsvangirai was doing SHOULD be exposed.

The last thing those poor people need is another lying leader and worse, a puppet of the U.S., also willing to starve people to death in order to get what it wants.

Good for Wikileaks. Now maybe Zimbabwe can look for a decent, honest person to run against Mugabe.

[Tunkamerica]

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