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June 20, 2005
Church vs. State
The archbishops and bishops who head the Roman Catholic Church in Zimbabwe have come our forcefully against Mugabe's crackdown.
They have issued a declaration--tacked on church message boards around the country and excerpted in the foreign press--that Mugabe's demolition of 1.5 million shanty homes and his arrest of 30,000 street vendors is, as the Cape Times reported, an act that "cries out for vengeance to God."
Indeed, it is a "gross injustice to the poor" to arrest their breadwinners, destroy their homes, and then leave them to wither away in the winter night. But we have come to expect injustice from this regime.
Perhaps we can come to expect rebellion from its people.
Free Zimbabwe.
Posted by James Fichter at June 20, 2005 10:56 AM
