13 December 2008
A Zimbabwean cabinet minister has accused Britain, helped by the United States, of masterminding the country's cholera outbreak in a "biological chemical war, a genocidal onslaught" against the country.
The accusation was published in the government-controlled Herald newspaper by Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, the information minister in President Robert Mugabe's government.
The newspaper backed up the accusation by suggesting that a statement by a top U.S. official, saying the international community had been preparing for a cholera outbreak for some time, "rais[ed] the fears that her country may have launched biological warfare on Zimbabwe."
In other news on Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak, United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has repudiated remarks by Mugabe that the cholera outbreak is under control.
"I cannot agree that the cholera epidemic is over," Ban told a news conference in Geneva. "The reports I have been receiving ... are alarming," he said. "There are still many people who are suffering from this epidemic."
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What a total Crock. It would be a good laugh if so many people weren't dying (800+), the plague is still spreading and the government is totally incapable of doing anything about it. Methinks the Herald has brought a group of North Korean propagandists in to write their editorials. It sure sounds like the garbage that comes out of Pyongyang, which normally is always delusional. I wrote the Herald off long ago as a propaganda rag, read only by fools.
Dude, you are completely off your rockers. Who are these North Koreans rocking your boneheaded 'brain'? You must be completely naive: you did read the Herald, otherwise your would not be making the xenophobic comments about the North Koreans.
Have you met all North Koreans, dude?
Who gives a rat's tail if some dude from DixieTexas "writes off the North Koreans."
May I remind you that Condo, neo-con Rice meets with "the North Koreans."
Or, do you imagine, in your volcanic delusional self-apperception that you are 'better' than Condo?
Yes or no: are you 'better' than Professor Rice?
My name is Bob, I'm a Texan. I've spent a lot of time in your country before you were born...Knock off the Dude crap
DUDE from DixieTexas, I don't give a rat's tail if you spent centuries in "my country" before I was born.
Here, we reflect, argue, throw rhetorical bombs, and engage in reflective catfights.
Here, we care not about your origin or your age. Get it? Dude, back off the country of origin and age crap! We DON'T OR SHOULD NOT care about such ephemeral matters in Africa; perhaps, you do in Texas. If you do, then its your bag, not mine: put a dip in your hip, and a funky stroke in your stride and style with us: Africans, for we are a cool people, despite THE CENTURIES OLD REACTION.
What, in the name of the defeated Confederacy, does YOUR TIME SPENT IN ZIMBABWE have to do with the price of tea even in Odinga's Kenya?
What will you do if I refuse "to knock off the Dude crap"?
Nicht; Nada; Natin.
Accordingly, I WILL NOT KNOCK THE DUDE CRAP, A DETERMINATION OR PREDICATE OR WHATEVER that, IN MY OPINION, perspicuously and objectively applies to you, D U D E; DUDE---AND NOW---all together: DUDE.
Cheers from Comedy Central in Harare, the city of the hardest, TOUGHEST people of Africa, Zims, IN MY OPINION.
"Here, we care not about your origin or your age. Get it? Dude, back off the country of origin and age crap! We DON'T OR SHOULD NOT care about such ephemeral matters in Africa"
More lies Shallow-head? How can you say that when clearly the land policies of Mugabe are 100% based upon these "ephemeral" matters?
Another one to add to your lie about 1 million children getting raped in the UK this year already?
A reply on topic please. Else we will simply see you have no substance or argument to back up anything you say once again.
BONEHEAD, I finally got you to fess up, dude.
Your real beef with the AFRICAN is that he took back BY FORCE what the REACTION stole, under Rhodes and company.
Glory to the African warrior, then!
It has always been about the land, dude. Did you imagine I did not know that, bonehead?
May I assure you BONEHEAD that THE LAND WILL NEVER REVERT. GET IT?
NEVER.
The land ain't no ephemeral matter. Right, a zillion times.
It belongs to Africans, and the Africans got it now: and, there ain't crap YOU OR THE TAILS OF THE TAILS OF THE TAILS OF THE REACTION CAN DO ABOUT IT.
GET IT, BONEHEAD?
So you are saying that your statement:
"Here, we care not about your origin or your age. Get it? Dude, back off the country of origin and age crap! We DON'T OR SHOULD NOT care about such ephemeral matters in Africa"
Is wrong? Clearly where people come from does matter to you, as clearly you are against a white person owning land in Zimbabwe. So your statement is clearly hypocritical.
So tell us, why do you condone and support that beats and rapes and murders your fellow Zimbabweans? Why do you support someone that willingly altered the GNU agreement without informing the other parties? Why do you support someone that allows human rights activists to be abducted? Why do you support a leader who does not allow freedom of speech to reign in Zimbabwe? Why do support a leader that denies the very existence of cholera when so many of your brothers and sisters are dying from it? How much are they paying you?
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