On 24-Sep-2006 I wrote this: "Things in Zimbabwe are deteriorating by the day, inflation has reached 1000%. Suppose now that people who are starving get together with people who are losing their farms and start a protest that degenerates into a riot. Suppose then that Mugabe orders his war veterans to start shooting and we have the beginning of a genocide. Then what? The UN will do nothing as usual. Will the EU intervene or watch the slaughter from the sidelines? Time will tell". Since then, every day that goes by things get worse in Zimbabwe. Estanislao Oziewicz, in an article recently published by the [url=http://tinyurl.com/3ah5vm] Globe and Mail[/url] wrote this: "Zimbabwe's rate of inflation, already the world's highest, could pass 4,000 per cent by year's end. Commercial agriculture has collapsed. There is massive unemployment. Hundreds of thousands are going hungry, and even civil servants are living below the poverty line. Dissent is ruthlessly crushed, opposition protesters are beaten up. Yet, Robert Mugabe, the country's dictatorial president since 1980, has been able to withstand external opprobrium, even targeted sanctions, and so far has outmanoeuvred the loftiest international organizations. His demise has been predicted before. But this week, with the chorus of global condemnation over the beating of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, forecasts of the end of the octogenarian's reign grew in strength. Only days ago, the Brussels-based International Crisis Group(ICG), devoted to preventing conflict worldwide, published an analysis saying that the long political deadlock in Zimbabwe is breaking, but regional and continued Western pressure are needed to ensure a peaceful restoration of democracy. ICG president Gareth Evans, former Australian foreign minister, said the situation in Zimbabwe is reminiscent of the final days of Joseph Mobutu Sese Seko's rule in Congo. 'Zimbabwe has the potential to fall into chaos and bring large chunks of the region down with it unless both domestic and international parties act now,' he said". Zimbabwe is just another example of how badly things can go in former European Colonies after independence, and a warning to European lefties that failure of some African States cannot always be attributed to 'heart of darkness' colonialists.