MSM connivance PT 1 - Zimbabwe

Nine churches were raided, with between 50 and 100 people arrested in each. They were moved to a transit camp. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced, their homes burned, as they are driven to the countryside. Pol Pot?

It's Robert Mugabe, the Marxist leader of Zimabwe. Internationally, the Human Rights organizations have gathered together, outraged that another forced displacement of citizens into areas where they cannot even sustain life.

That last sentence is a lie. I made it up. Because no Human Rights groups have come forward to complain. No newspaper has accepted the challenge to confront this inhumanity. No MSM campaign to bring this outrage to the world has materialized. Mugabe is a Marxist. Therefore, anything he does is beyond reproach. Like Fidel Castro, the communist, who recently threw 87 dissidents in jail, the non-event in media eyes does not absolve the MSM from complicity.

Search google today and find that bowler Shane Bone is looking forward to a match in Zimbabwe next month. Or there is the UN Zimbabwe envoy who will issue a report on Friday. And a brief report at ABC news online that is produced here in its entirety.

Zimbabwe police throw homeless out of churches
Police in Zimbabwe have conducted a series of night raids on churches in the city of Bulawayo, evicting people who were being given shelter after losing their homes in the Government's eviction campaign.

Dressed in riot gear and carrying batons, police are said to have forcibly removed hundreds of people sheltering on church grounds.

They were put on trucks and taken to a government transit camp outside the city.

Church leaders have described the actions against those who have lost their homes in the Government's two-month forced eviction campaign as cruel, nasty and unbelievable.

Earlier this week a pastor was thrown out of a government transit camp, which is now said to be off limits to church representatives.

South African church leaders have criticised the Government's so-called clean-up campaign and have just launched the Operation Hope for Zimbabwe appeal for funds for emergency supplies.

THAT's what I mean about MSM complicity. No major stories at the Independent. No major story at the Guardian. And at the Canadian Globe and Mail site, the story was 2/3rds of the way down the page.

These are the Keepers of Human Rights. Human rights for some, only not leftwing victims.

UPDATE (Friday, June 22nd) The U.N. has reported on the violence in Zimbabwe. Full text here. Money quote:

"Criticism, while fully justified, is not enough. We have a duty to help those in need. In keeping with the recommendations of my envoy, the United Nations will urgently seek agreement with the Government of Zimbabwe to mobilize immediate humanitarian assistance on the scale that is required to avert further suffering. I urge the international community to respond generously to this call.

Make sure to make the checks payable to United Nations Graft and Corruption Fund.