[Marxism] Catholic News: Britain would be justified in invading, Zimbabwe Archbishop declares

[Fred Feldman]

Because "the people are not ready" to overthrow Mugabe.
Fred Feldman


OK to invade and remove Mugabe, Ncube tells Brits 
http://www.cathnews.com/news/707/7.php


 Saying that he is prepared to lead the overthrow of President Robert Mugabe
but that the people are not ready, Bulawayo Archbishop Pius Ncube has told
reporters that Britain would be justified in invading Zimbabwe.


The Courier-Mail reports that Archbishop Ncube told London's Sunday Times
the deepening destitution in his country, including millions going hungry
and the world's highest inflation rate, meant Britain would be right to act.

"I think it is justified for Britain to raid Zimbabwe and remove Mugabe," he
said.

"We should do it ourselves but there's too much fear. I'm ready to lead the
people, guns blazing, but the people are not ready."

Archbishop Ncube said the president was squandering money while the people
starved and had just spent $US2 million ($A2.37 million) on surveillance
equipment while most people struggled along on $US2 ($A2.37) a week.

"How can you expect people to rise up when even our church services are
attended by state intelligence people?" the archbishop said.

Zimbabwean Government officials were not available for immediate comment
today.

In the past, Mugabe's Government has branded Archbishop Ncube a Western
agent helping to co-ordinate a propaganda campaign against Zimbabwe's ruling
ZANU-PF party as part of a drive to oust it from power.

In May, Mugabe dismissed repeated criticism from the country's Catholic
bishops as "nonsense" and warned that his Government could start treating
the clergy as political enemies.

There are around one million Catholics among Zimbabwe's 13 million people.

Once one of the most buoyant economies in southern Africa, with a
well-educated population, Zimbabwe's economy is now in ruins, with
unemployment of 80 per cent and life expectancy tumbling to 37 years for men
and 34 years for women.