No, not that one.
"The ex-vice-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been extradited to The Hague to face trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity" BBC
Interesting that this should occur in the same week as Mugabe declared himself the winner of the Zimbabwe presidential election. You know, the one with only one candidate. "crimes against humanity"? Sounds familiar that. While I'm not denying that our Congolese friend should be in front of the International Criminal Court (ICC), I'd be more than happy to see Mugabe alongside him.
Rhodesia* used to be the breadbasket of Africa, so much so that it exported food across the continent and across the world. It has abundant mineral reserves just waiting to be exploited. Now it's people starve and inflation is at god-knows what level. I cannot doubt that Africa has fared worse under its home-grown leaders than it ever did under colonial masters. Liberal interventionism isn't exactly popular post-Iraq, and Britain doesn't exactly have the means to launch a full scale liberation of Rhodesia. All that the West can really do is sit and watch the African nation implode, slowly dragging the rest of the continent down with it.
I'd dearly like to see Mugabe on trial; held to account for his crimes commited in the name of sovereignty - not to mention the economic genocide carried out against white Rhodesians. But given his advanced age, and the tyrants that have gone unpunished before, I won't hold my breath.
* On a side note, I've never been too happy when uppity regimes take it on themselves to rename older establishments. Hence my preference of Rhodesia - honouring Cecil Rhodes after all - over the ridiculous revisionist Zimbabwe. Same goes for Bombay-Mumbai, etc.
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