Mugabe's Beautification Campaign

If anyone cares, Zimbabwe is continuing with its 'Drive Out Trash' campaign and - big surprise - the African Union is resisting any demands to act.  Mugabe, meanwhile, continues his campaign of demolishing homes and shantytowns, which Mugabe claims is needed to wipe out havens for criminals and black market profiteers.  Incidentally, its Mugabe's policies that have wrought economic ruin and created the black market.  But it gets better:

Police have torched and bulldozed tens of thousands of homes in the monthlong drive to destroy shantytowns, street markets and even vegetable gardens planted by impoverished city dwellers at a time of acute food shortages.

Got that?  It was Mugabe who forced farmers from their land, nationalized property, left food-production facilities in disrepair and ruin and is driving his country to the brink of starvation.  For the sake of brute survival, the poor have erected homes where they could and even planted meager subsistence-level gardens only to have them bulldozed as retaliation for their votes for the opposition party in recent parliamentary elections.

The rights groups released a smuggled video Thursday showing bewildered families sleeping in the open in the winter cold after police torched and bulldozed their shantytown homes. The Zimbabwean government has pledged to build new houses for those it has made homeless.

Uh-huh.  But in the interest of solidarity, the African Union continues to turn away:

AU spokesman Desmond Orjiako said Friday that it was "not proper" for the 53-member body to interfere in the internal affairs of Zimbabwe -- especially if it is trying to prevent crime or "ensure Harare does not turn into a slum."

Except that the crime the primarily concerns Mugabe is the crime of voting against him, and he's willing to turn all of Zimbabwe into a slum to ensure that no one ever does.

Update: Here's a startling before/after (click on the picture for a close-up) of one of the areas in Harare (courtesy Courtney Knapp at Ramble On):

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