MDC minister compares Zimbabwe to Rwanda before the genocide

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Source: The Guardian

A senior government minister in Zimbabwe has warned of "an atmosphere of poison" reminiscent of Rwanda on the eve of the genocide that left 800,000 people dead in the 1990s.

Tendai Biti, finance minister in the fragile unity government, was reacting to a bomb attack on his home that he said could have killed his young children.

Biti blamed the incident on the military, the Zanu-PF party and president Robert Mugabe. He said the power-sharing agreement between Zanu-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change, of which he is secretary-general, is now effectively dead.

"My fear is that Zanu-PF will create an atmosphere of hate and an atmosphere of poison," said Biti. "There are shades of Rwanda in January 1994. I just hope we avoid a Rwanda where the military is in control, law and order breaks down and there is total violence."

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/08/mdc-minister-zimbabwe-rwanda-genocide

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

1. The DU Robert Mugabe Fan Club isn't going to like this one...

It is just a question of will they go with denial or impassioned defense.

[Throd]

2. Biti is obviously a stooge of the British government.