Sanctions against Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s embattled President Robert Mugabe and his 13 allies should brace themselves for a storm of sanctions being proposed at UN level. The U.S. and the European Union are hellbent on bringing down the illegitimate president.
A draft resolution is now being passed around members of the United Nations Security Council. Once this resolution is approved, Mugabe and his cohorts will be kept from traveling abroad and their entire administration’s overseas assets will be comprehensively frozen.
This is already aside from an extant arms embargo and travel ban imposed by EU and the US. Moreover, the sanctions will come crashing down upon, aside from the Zimbabwean strongman, businesspersons who have financed his tyrannical ZANU-PF regime. None of them or their families can reside anywhere in Europe, for instance.
Punitive measures only serve Mugabe right. In June, he authorized the use of violence against anyone identified with opposition in the country. Numerous casualties had already been listed, to say nothing of the tortured and the injured.
His sole rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, was compelled to withdraw from the race, leaving Mugabe the winner. For someone who has held on to power for the last thirty years, Mugabe surely does not mind spilling blood for a little more of the view from the top.
Sanctions might prove to be insipid in the long run. Even so, people should thank the United Nations for policing the world.
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