Mugabe, proof that hell exists on earth

I've been following the antics of Robert Mugabe for several years. The former Zimbabwean freedom fighter turned despot continues his path of destruction on Zimbabwe's resources. His newest campaign is to allow the slaughter of wildlife to feed his starving people.

Because of the general abundance of certain species of wildlife in southern Zimbabwe and the establishment of the transfrontier park, which allows animals from Mozambique and South Africa's world-famous Kruger National Park to move freely into and out of Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou (home of the elephants) National Park, there have been high hopes among conservationists that Zimbabwe's wildlife sector could be restored to its former glory.

This now appears highly unlikely as Zimbabwe's department of national parks and wildlife management, the custodian of this embattled country's wild animals, has been given the green light to work with rural district councils to kill animals to feed more than four-million hungry rural Zimbabweans. National Parks officials said the recent shootings of 10 elephants for barbecue meat at festivities to mark Zimbabwe's 25 years of independence around the country had been carried out in the broad context of the directive to kill animals to feed the hungry, particularly those living within the vicinity of national parks.

Once Africa's breadbasket this is an outrageous shame, with Mugabe's land reform cronysm as a cheif culprit.