Enough Project Co-Chair John Prendergast has a thoughtful op-ed today in the Christian Science Monitor about President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe’s steadfast resolve to maintain his iron grip on power even if it means “burning his own house down.” Prendergast argues that the policy choices to deal with Zimbabwe all have downsides, and the time has come for some sort of international intervention to oust Mugabe.
At her Senate confirmation hearing yesterday, United States Ambassador-designate to the United Nations Susan Rice expressed her resolve to:
work with southern Africa and bring their private condemnation [of President Mugabe] into the public sphere … so that the people of Zimbabwe’s suffering can finally end.