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At long last, we seem to be approaching--fitfully--global agreement than Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's elected dictator, must go. He is presiding over 80 percent unemployment, an inflation rate of 1,700 percent, and shortages of nearly all basic goods. In response to his troubles, Mugabe has attacked and injured opposition leaders, opened fire on protestors, and beaten those who resist arrest. In a comparison that is as harsh as it gets in southern Africa, clerics have equated his tyrannical tactics to the worst of Pretoria's apartheid regime.
And, since many of his critics now believe that toppling his regime--and getting a fresh start for Zimbabwe--is more important than holding him to account, there are increasing calls for Mugabe to be forgiven. Zimbabwe's opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai--whose skull was cracked open in police custody last month--has hinted that Mugabe should be offered immunity if he agrees to step down. The International Crisis Group, in a March report, likewise assumed that immunity would be part of the solution. It is widely surmised that, if current efforts by South African President Thabo Mbeki help end to Mugabe's rule, protection from prosecution may be part of the deal.
But, while immunity may seem a tempting solution--no worse than the way many other tyrants have left office--offering it to Mugabe now would represent a big step backward.
As African countries struggle to crack down on corruption and clean up messes in their own neighborhood, allowing one of the continent's notorious strongmen to walk free--without ever holding him to account--would simply enable future despots. Mugabe missed his chance to take advantage of a long era of impunity for brutal heads of state--and, now, it's too late to make an exception.
An immunity offer has obvious appeal: If Mugabe can be coaxed to leave Harare voluntarily, he could obviate the need for either an internal coup or aggressive international action (by either South Africa's neighbors or the international community). Allowing Mugabe to while away the rest of his days (and, remember, he is already 83) on a beachfront may seem like a small price to pay for the return of stability in Zimbabwe. It may be of particular appeal to Mugabe's neighbors, who wish to resolve the region's crisis without turning on a longtime friend. (Solidarity with Mugabe, who helped throw off the colonial yoke of white-minority rule in Rhodesia, has stood in the way regional pressure.)
But while a temporary exile may be needed to get Mugabe to step aside, it should not be accompanied by permanent impunity for his crimes. Mugabe has orchestrated state-sponsored assassination, uprooted entire populations, and starved political opponents. The victims of these high crimes deserve justice, either by a domestic court or--failing that--an international one. Human rights violations like Mugabe's cannot simply be overlooked without threatening respect for human rights worldwide. If powerful human rights violators are above the law, other tyrants will continue their misery making, safe in the knowledge that they risk, at most, their authority, not their hides.
In fact, Mugabe's self-assuredness over the years owes in part to the comfortable exiles won by Marcos of the Philippines, Duvalier of Haiti, Mengistu of Ethiopia, Amin of Uganda, Stroessner of Paraguay, Mobutu of then-Zaire, the Shah of Iran, and Liberia's Charles Taylor. In most of these cases, exile meant de facto immunity, since no international courts were available to try the dictators' crimes.
Most of those countries were better off when those men left, but the mere fact of their departure isn't a good enough reason to insulate them from punishment. And this sentiment is gaining in popularity. That's why Taylor's story ended differently: After a few years spent lying low in Calabar, Nigeria's president finally succumbed to international pressure and turned him over to the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone. By detailing Taylor's horrific crimes, proponents of accountability overcame Nigeria's promises to protect the fallen dictator.
Of course, this bodes well for justice, but poorly for precedent. By some accounts, Taylor's saga has complicated Mbeki's approach toward Mugabe: What good is exile if it is not accompanied by immunity? What use is an immunity offer if it can be unilaterally rescinded?
he answer is not much--and that's how it should be. But by taking a stand for accountability in Zimbabwe, instead of letting Mugabe skulk away, Mbeki and others could signal a new era for Africa--one that rejects corrupt and brutal leaders, no matter their revolutionary pedigree. Considerations of pan-African solidarity are too often allowed to trump both the fundamental values of Africa's democracies and the interests of its often defenseless populations. This pattern has helped prolong the crisis in Darfur and the strife in Congo. And the message is equally important for Zimbabwe's opposition: The regime that replaces Mugabe must mark a sharp break from the past--including true legal accountability.
Rejecting an immunity deal would also reflect the sea-change in international justice that has taken place in recent decades. The creation of the U.N.'s special tribunals for the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone--as well as the creation of the International Criminal Court in 1998--have made justice available for perpetrators of some of the world's most notorious crimes. These courts are beyond the reach of tyrants, threats, and violence. At the same time, these bodies are beginning to reshape public expectations so that the idea of brutal thugs retiring in safe splendor is less accepted than it used to be. People have tasted international criminal justice, and they are asking for more.
Africa is at an inflection point when it comes to holding leaders responsible for corruption, incompetence, and human rights abuses. With the arrest of Charles Taylor, the continent shifted from willingness to let bygones be bygones (as the governments of Mozambique, Botswana, and Angola once avowed) to the beginnings of accountability. Having made these first steps, Africa should not let the likes of Mugabe drag it backward again.


This post gives me the disquieting sense that Suzanne Nossel has taken a leave of absence from the reality-based community. I hope it is temporary.
I do not know that any deal involving the removal of Robert Mugabe from power in exchange for his immunity from prosecution has been discussed, or indeed that such a deal would change much about Zimbabwe's government apart from its nominal head. So to that degree Ms. Nossel's whole argument is probably moot. Having made this observation I note that, not for the first time, Ms. Nossel's sense of an international consensus appears to rest on an uncertain foundation. Americans and most Europeans doubtless look on Mugabe's government with well-justified feelings of disgust, but it has never been clear that these feelings were widely shared among the people who count in Africa, and considerable evidence that they still are not.
It is because he is a thug that Mugabe is regarded by many in Africa as a hero. Zimbabwe is not Liberia or Sierra Leone, small countries in which bringing the former leaders to trial can be a useful alternative for a war of extermination against their followers. Mugabe struck against white Zimbabwean farmers; he humbled them and took their land, giving it to his supporters. Most of the governments in Africa either dream of doing something similar to one group or another in their respective countries, or have already done it. Indeed, the recent direction of Venezuelan government policy suggests that Mugabe's example has found admirers outside of Africa as well.
There is also the question of accountability. What does accountability mean, first of all? And accountability for what? The shining example of Slobodan Milosevic's trial -- a circus that dragged on for years and only ended when the defendant died of natural causes -- is not as inspiring as some of the enthusiasts for international criminal justice seem to think it is. Moreover -- and this is no defense of Mugabe -- he shed less blood in Zimbabwe in the last five years than he did in his first five years in office, a generation ago. So what is he to be tried for, exactly?
Local solutions for local problems. Zimbabwe's self-destruction has proceeded as it has because the regional power, South Africa, has not lived up to its responsibilities. When that changes, there will be opportunities for Zimbabwe to move away from the course its government has set -- though even in the best case it will take many years for the country just to recover what it has lost under the last period of Mugabe's rule. If that does not change, there is no reason to think that holding aloft the magic amulet called "accountability" will accomplish anything. The force of this concept extends only as far as the power of the states that support it.
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- Over 35% of the population have fled the country. An estimated 4 million has fled to South Africa.
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- lowest human lifespan in the world (34 years for women)
- over 80% unemployment
- highest inflation rate in the world (Some experts say the real year on year figure is 6000-8000%)
- no need to mention the massive level of human rights abuses because nobody cares anyway.
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That aside, Mugabe is only hated in the white west, the rest of the world looks on with amused satisfaction. The hatred is directly linked to our long overdue repossession of our colonised lands. The hatred against Mugabe, championed by Britain, has nothing to do with democracy, human rights or any such imperialist hogwash. Recently Nigeria hosted the most violent, non-free, and unfair elections seen on the african continent, and Tony Blair was the first prime-minister to say the UK government will work with the current regime--simply because the person in power protects Anglo-American interests. Its the same everywhere, saudi arabia etc. It has everything to do with imperialist greed. Zimbabwe is under fire because it threatened british interests by repossessing land stolen by british nationals as late as the 1970s. Its normal for the west to be that hypocritical, after all everyone protects his interests, but the joy is in that the majority of people have woken up. And we see the white man for what he really is! Our determination to undo the neocolonial york is equally inspired, and god willing, we will prevail.
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I like Mugabe, so too do more than half our population (though the mdc always come up with silly excuses). A look at some recent elections in zimbabwe will show that by and large, mugabe is popular among his people, and thats what matters.
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