Sounds Like It'll Be A Peaceful Transition Of Power

Why are we even bothering with the election in Zimbabwe, can't we go directly to the riot?

A defiant President Robert Mugabe yesterday vowed he would 'go to war' if he lost the presidential run-off due to take place in less than two weeks.

Describing the opposition as 'traitors', he claimed Zimbabwe would never 'be lost' again. Speaking at the burial of a veteran of the independence war, Mugabe said he would never accept the Movement for Democratic Change taking over. 'It shall never happen ... as long as I am alive and those who fought for the country are alive,' he said. 'We are prepared to fight for our country and to go to war for it.'

There isn't going to be anything approaching an election on June 27. It's going to be a sham. The electoral commission won't allow monitors to be accredited. There aren't enough monitors to man all the voting stations even if the ruling party would let them. Voters are being murdered already, and state violence is growing. What's going to happen in two weeks will be unspeakable, and the international community is doing seemingly nothing about it.