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There are some western leaders who have been reticent to speak out against Mugabe on account of our own sad colonial history. They have preferred only to be seen to follow African leaders' condemnation of the horrific illegal regime in Zimbabwe. For myself two wrongs never did make a right. Just because we have a history which is far from perfect so that is no reason to stand by in silence now while another crime of similar magnitude is committed. That would be to condone the increasingly illegal actions of Mugabe's regime taking place now.

In this light it is good to quote Gordon Brown's statement today.

"I condemn the arrest of Morgan Tsvangirai for the fifth time in a week, the charging of Tendai Biti with treason, the killing of over 60 people, the beating and torture of over 2000 people, the displacement of over 30,000 and the increasingly bellicose rhetoric used by the Zimbabwean government.

"These are the acts of an increasingly desperate and criminal regime. They are further proof, if is is needed, that Robert Mugabe is becoming more blatant in his attempts to steal the 27 June election."

The Prime Minister goes on to suggest ways in which the upcoming election in Zimbabwe may be made less fettered and unfair. My hope is that the International powers will not wait too much longer to put on the ground real effective help both for the election and also for the starving people denied access to International food aid by the state in Zimbabwe.

As it says heading up a letter first published in the Zim Standard, "how many must die first?"

WITH all the factual reports of torture and murder as well as burning down of people's homes being carried out by Zanu PF thugs and terrorists, nothing has been done to these evil people by the police.

This is because these evil men are acting on behalf of the losing Zanu PF party. So the evil men are totally immune to arrest.

So far the reported cases of murder of MDC supporters by the Zanu PF terrorists are more than 65. Can the African Union [AU], SADC [Southern African Development Community] and the United Nations [UN] please inform the people of Zimbabwe the minimum number of Zimbabweans that need to die before the condition warrants intervention?

Taking into account what has been done and what is being done to the innocent peace-loving Zimbabweans by the losing Zanu PF party, people are looking forward to speedy intervention by the AU, SADC or the UN in order to rescue them from further unnecessary deaths.

D R Mutungagore

Mutare

It happens and you may know already these descriptions of life in Zimbabwe are some of the least graphically descriptive of the horrors that are going on. For this reason I hope the Prime Minister's statement is followed by much more from Downing Street at this second crucial time in Zimbabwe's history.