Lim, Malaysia.

The world is already global that is a real and obvious fact. As long as you persist with these out dated nationalist, racist ideas then you are left firmly behind in a museum. The cold war has ended mate. Maoism is buried. Communism is over. Old dinosaurs have keeled over and died

Colin , Carmarthen, UK

Practical suggestions
The South African Trades Unions should take matters into their own hands by severing the electricity supplies to Zimbabwe.
The BrItish Government and others, summon the Chinese ambassadors to explain why their government is supplying ammunition and money to Zanu PF terrorists

Colin , Carmarthen, UK

Colin , Carmarthen, UK

(2) My friend, the world can only be truly global if all mankind do not have different skin colours or when we are all colourblind. So long as the different countries have their own names the world can never be meaningfully globalised.
I am not stubborn, I am a realist.

Lim, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

I have just been reading a book about the Rhodesian war. There was good and bad on both sides (as with any war) but stories of Mugabe's guerillas torturing and killing anyone who opposed them then are so similar to what we are hearing now. The leopard does not change his spots.

David Ashton, Bathurst, Australia

Nelson Mandela expressed his contempt for Mugabe many times. The man is now very old and ill, that's why he is not making public statements.

Charan Muzaya, London, UK

Thabo Mbeki's quiet diplomacy has failed and he now has blood on his hands - not only are innocent Zimbabweans being killed in Zim but also in South Africa - witness the recent killings in Jo'burg. SA is continent's economic and political leader and needs to act now to help remove this tyrant

Neil, London, UK

To the proponents of war on terror, and you liberated of South Africa,where are you now, when it matters?

Nigel Bramble, London, England

Yes, as so many of us have already mentioned, Zimbabwe's main hope is to send multimillion oil company exploration teams to inestigate their potential for producing 'black gold'.
This would have any self centred Western country rushing in, as has been the case in Iraq.

Jay, manchester, UK

Lim in Malysia.

Why do you support Mugabe and Zanu PF? They are now labelled as war criminals and terrorists. National sovereignty is officially out of date mate. The world has gone global. Old style cold war regimes are history. Wise up mate!

Colin , Carmarthen, UK

The solution is to circulate Mugabe as a War Criminal which will mean he cannot travel abroad. If he does he can be arrested and forced to stand trial as a War Criminal in the same way as the Nazis were dealt with after the war.

Alastair Adams, Worcester Park,

South Africa is busy abolishing all private property right as of July 1 (Mugabe-style) and starting their own Zimbabwe/Kenya/Rwanda/Angola/Liberia et al-style African Regime. So much for one man-one vote (one time!)

lanie, atlanta, usa

We [the USA] are stuck in Iraq. If we leave, genocide will insue, we CANNOT allow that.
Somebody needs to step in and help these people. Where's the EU, the UK, AU, and the UN?????

Anthony, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

After the Genocide during World War 2 I heard "NEVER AGAIN"
After POL POT genocide in Cambodia in the late 70's I heard "NEVER AGAIN"
After the massacres and genocide in Rwanda I heard "NEVER AGAIN". Its a shame nobody means it.

John , Derby,

So much for South Africa and where is Nelson Mandela in all this? Isn't it time for African Leaders to take responibility for the ongoing atrocities being perpetrated in their own back yard? It is always amazing to me that the West has to do something !

Gabriella Van Breda, Bellevue, U.S.A.

Masunda, Dublin, Ireland

You are right. Zimbabweans do not want to be governed by a puppet. We need to ponder why Mr.Mugabe at 84 would want to hang on to power. I believe he wants Zimbabwe to be totally free of external influence. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans alone, independent & sovereign.

Lim , Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Masunda, Dublin, Ireland

(2) You said:" People are dying like flies in Somalia thanks to American bombs." Yes, the West could intervene with humanitarian aid, not more bombs and deaths or political pressure. Everywhere you see Western political meddling you see potential conflicts & deaths.

Lim , Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Clifford Cherry, Kenora, Canada
I quite agree with you. Mr.Mugabe is 84 and really should be retired. Somehow being a true nationalist he would not want to see Zimbabwe being ruled by a party that does not have his kind of nationalism and one which will play to the tune of foreign powers.
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Lim , Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Mugabe seems old to run anymore, he might even be senile at his age. how many years does he have left? over all he is losing it.

Clifford Cherry, Kenora, Canada

Poor people! They need our help desperately. I also feel very sorry for Mr Mugabwe. What a Country he inherited! Run by white rascists.

Pedro Tam, London, UK

None of the African countries including South Africa have condemned the barbarity and savagery of Mugabe's supporters. They realize fully that Mugabe intends to hold on to power at any cost after 28 yrs of rule; but Africans don't want to criticize their own. They are doing nothing. What a shame!

Sid, Richmond, Virginia, USA

How can these elections be anything like free and fair when the wife of the elected mayor of Harare is abducted in broad daylight and beaten to death? But wait. As soon as this sham election is over, Mbeki will anounce that it reflected the will of the people. Wait and see.

David Ashton, Bathurst, Australia

People are dying like flies in Somalia thanks to American bombs, the international community sorry the western community should interverne there. Zimbabwean problems will be solved by Zimbabweans without interference from the EU particularly UK. Zimbabweans do not want to be governed by a puppet.

Masunda, Dublin, Ireland

Mugabe has used racial warfare to destroy what was a prosperous nation. The problem is that this mentality has seeped into the conciousness of citizens and is difficult to undo. Stalin used class warfare in the same way. As with Stalin, we may just have to wait until Mugabe bites the dust naturally.

Sam des, London,

Charan Muzaya,My point is not what has happened in Zimbabwe,that was predictable by anybody living in Rhodesia.My point is that the naivety of interfering outsiders led to the total destruction of a prosperous functioning society.From breadbasket to dustbowl in 28 yrs, what an achievment.Great shame

Ed Allen, Whitby, Canada

Invade ZIMBABWE now !!!!!

ian payne, walsall,

Unfortunately for Zimbabweans, their country has no Oil. Nobody wants intervene. All that is needed in Zimbabwe is an air strike on Mugabes presidential palace. Simple! Case closed. The MDC can point out the targets easily.

Dodi, London, United Kingdom

It is a sense of despair one gets reading first of mutilation and murder and then of Brown's memo demanding .... what? Good manners? Brown is not naive: he must do something but he is unwilling to do anything substantive, so he covers by issuing a "demand" that all sides ignore. Problem solved.

Carson, Leatherhead,

quot;i assume the UN is still in hibernation.
<br/>do those officials still get paid for doing nothing?&quot;
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<br/>For the answer to the above question watch the film HOTEL RUWANDA

keithw, Wirral, UK

These murderers are black, therefore anything they want to do to other blacks is fine by the PC brigade.

It's absolutely predictable, and absolutely sickening.

John Weaver, San Javier, Spain

He's the new Saddam! The US know what to do here...

John Smith, Leasowe,

Strangely nobody is rushing to save the people from oppression this time!
I wonder what is the interest for uk there.
Selling weapons?

Lauren, London, UK

Well, where is the UN? Where are the "human rights" people? Where are the progressist nations of the world (China, Islamic Countries, etc), where is South Africa, the Super Power of the region? What is the AU doing? Let me guess...it's all Americas and GW Bush fault.

Fabio C, London, UK

Simply said, One, does`t have to be white skinned only to be called, a slave master and out right evildoer. Mugabe flips his middle-finger to the whole world. Then play`s the race card saying, the white man is behind all the trouble. It`s called, Black on Black hate crimes, in my neighborhood.

Robert, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.

Mugabe has unleashed an orgy of violence. Does Gordon Brown really think that Mugabe will allow the UN in to observe? Yeah that could happen.

Bruce Northwood, Washington, D.C., USA

Why worry old man? It's not Brits getting killed. Thousands of blacks from there, worthy men, were killed during WW2 fighting for GB. GB forced a hand over to a minority of violent chinese trained thugs who have selfishly taken & destroyed the country. No problem for Britain old man, why worry

Iain Railton, Exeter, UK

Mugabe is a cancer to Zimbabwe and deserve to be removed by force, shame all heroes have left the earth, in other places, in other times this would have been dealt with in matter of seconds, these are dark ages...

Hokken, London,

Here's Mugabe's thinking: By standing against him in the election the MDC has declared war. He is therefore responding with real war: killing MDC activists and families to make the MDC pull out of the election. In the next few days the violence will escalate sharply until the MDC pulls out.

Charan Muzaya, London, UK

When the genocide begins then the west would then say "oh what could we have done to prevent this " .
The united nations is not for conflicts in africa only for the european union so that things do not spiral out of control and affect member countries.

ini umoh, northolt , united kingdom

Lord Carrington cannot be blamed for what has happened in Zimbabwe. Zimbabweans could have taken the country in any direction they wanted over the last 28 years, because they have been self-governing. Instead, they were foolish enough to place all their trust in one person, rather than in a system!

Charan Muzaya, London, UK

This is precisely the type of reaction Mugabe is counting on from Gordon Brown: words and more words, but no action. It's only 7 days to voting, and Mugabe is nearly winning, because his aim is to get the MDC to pull out of the election. The cost of continuing is having their children killed!

Charan Muzaya, London, UK

i assume the UN is still in hibernation.
do those officials still get paid for doing nothing?

j.atkinson, derby, UK

Peter Carrington (of Lancaster House fame) stated in this newspaper several months ago (whilst defending the very active part he played in the Rhodesian sell out) that he believed Zimbabweans to be a flexible people. When is the trial in The Hague for him and his cohorts ?.Charge .Gross Naivety

Ed Allen, Whitby, Canada

Labour stick their heads in the sand whilst they squander billions of pounds of tax payers money on Africa.
Where is our influence, Africa is happy to accept our money but not our advice.

steve tea, manchester, cheshire

Labour stick their heads in the sand whilst they squander billions of pounds of tax payers money on Africa.
Where is our influence, Africa is happy to accept our money but not our advice.

steve tea, manchester, cheshire

Apart the violence it's the exact reaction of Gordon Brown's attitude regarding the UK , no disregard to the voters !.

robin, inverness, scotland

It never ceases to amaze me the way the world looks on as Megabe and his henchmen carry out their daily brutality.
It is high time someone went in there and took Megabe out completely. He deserves to be executed.
Obviously no-one is interested because the Country doesn't have any oil.

Stephen Holmes, Withington , UK