Grahic evidence of Mugabe's destruction in Zimbabwe

Independent:

The true scale of a destructive campaign waged against Zimbabwe's poorest and most vulnerable citizens by their own government has been revealed in previously unseen satellite images.

The pictures show how a community of 30,000 at Porta Farm, outside Harare, was wiped from the map last year, during President Robert Mugabe's Operation Murambatsvina, or "Restore Order".

Countrywide, these demolition orders resulted in up to 700,000 people being made homeless in the midst of a food crisis.

Kolawole Olaniyan, the Africa programme director at Amnesty International, who released the images, said: "They are irrefutable evidence - if further evidence is even needed - that the Zimbabwean government has obliterated entire communities - completely erased them from the map, as if they never existed."

During the operation, state security forces were sent in their thousands into informal settlements, marketplaces and slums to forcibly evict the urban poor. The campaign was compared by Mr Mugabe's critics to the tactics of Pol Pot, the head of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, who emptied entire cities into the countryside.

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Actually Mugabe was too cheap to waste ammo on killing these people the way Pol Pot did. His preffered method is genocide on the cheap by starving these people into euphoria. The euphoria line is for those liberals who were happy to pull the plug on the women in Florida and let her starve to death.