I just happened to check the news out of Zimbabwe and those sneaky propaganda machine of the British government i.e. the Bullshit British Corporation have this little sidebar of Robert Mugabe’s career on this article in which these imperialist assholes describe the taking back of Zimbabwean land from white colonial invaders as “2000 – Land Invasion start.”
Land invasion? Wait, weren’t the imperialist the invaders into Zimbabwe? Am I the only one who’s noticing this? I call onto all people everywhere in the world who have suffered under imperialism/colonial rule to demand an immediate apology from the BBC and front page retraction for the use of “land invasion” to describe the land return to Zimbabweans from colonial robbers/murderers of Zimbabwe and its people in 2000. I also call onto an immediate investigation of the BBC’s misconduct/hidden agenda during its long coverage of Zimbabwe since 2000, as they have demonstrated a clear and disturbing pattern of biases/propaganda “reports” towards Zimbabwe.
It is unacceptable for an organization that masks itself as “news” to take the side of the British government and become an advocate organization. The BBC can either choose to be a news observer or become the FOX NEWS of the British government and its policies towards Zimbabwe. No middle way.PS: Pass this call to all the blogs and independent press out there in order to get to the bottom of the BBC’s real hidden agenda towards Zimbabwe since the 2000 land redistribution.
I noticed this troubling language as well. Another problem with the BBC’s coverage has been that they keep referring to the 2000 land policy as the beginning of Zimbabwe’s problems. You don’t even have to go back to colonialism to see the undue influence of Western economic interference in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe’s economy was already sliding pre-2000, before the imposition of sanctions and before controversial elections. Dating the Zimbabwe crisis to 2000, as the BBC repeatedly does in its coverage, ignores a very crucial part of the trajectory of the country’s present problems. R
emember Zimbabwe’s two-phase, IMF and World Bank sponsored Structural Adjustment Program (SAP), first introduced in 1990? The hardship imposed by these failed, IFI-driven policies played a critical , and too often ignored role in creating the economic crisis.
Zimbabwe suffers from BOTH an economic and political crisis. They are distinct, yet integrally related. Analyzing the situation there from either a purely political or a purely economic standpoint will result in dangerously misguided conclusions.
- Michael, Africa Action
By: justzimbabwe on April 1, 2008
at 5:36 pm
Michael, both of your points are excellent and show clear understanding of what has happened to Zimbabwe but the BBC, whose many of its staff and reporters have a connection to Zimbabwe pre-land redistribution, continues to advocate its monolithic views of blaming Mugabe’s land reforms as the ills of Zimbabwe, despite the fact that Zimbabwe has had worse sanctions imposed on by the British government and its puppet allies than Sudan has had for its now almost five years of genocide in Darfur. The IFI’s are the enemis of developing countries, whether its WB or IMF. If Zimbabwe is to get out of this hole that it is in now, none of these IFI policies should be on the table, if the MDC happens to win the elections because the economic situation of Zimbabwe will not get better.
By: Om on April 1, 2008
at 7:33 pm