Let me say, right off the mark, that I am sorry for the people who have died in the cyclone in Burma and the earthquake in China.

I feel for the loss and watch in sadness as the story unfolds on our television screens every day.

And I respect those people that have gone in to assist and help with the recovery of the dead and the rescuing of the injured. They have their hands full, I can see that.

But, like it or not, there is a man-made disaster taking place in Southern Africa, which the whole world is intent on commenting upon - and doing nothing about!

Surely - if it is man-made, it can be man-stopped!

I spent some time yesterday afternoon putting together a special posting on one of my pages, and the incidents that I note are only those sent to me in email form in a half hour period…

And that is just what is coming out of Zimbabwe that has been disseminated by email because a few civic minded people have gone out of their way to send the information out. There must be hundreds, if not thousands of incidents of violence in Zimbabwe that have gone unreported or unnoticed - because there are no survivors to tell the tale.

I am not about to repeat the contents of the posting I did - you can visit the page here - but I need to stand up and shout loud and clear that if we do not stop Mugabe and his party from visiting these atrocities on the Zimbabwean people, then that country is doomed to become a huge ghost town.

The graphic accompanying this story I did last week. The ‘Gukurahundi‘ is the operation that Mugabe carried out using a specially North-Korean trained brigade of soldiers to perpetrate genocide in Matabeleland in the early to mid-1980s. I believe that he is gearing up to take on the whole country in “Gukurahundi II”. I felt obligated to use the photograph of a slain MDC supporter - as it underlines the fact that people are dying...

People are leaving the country daily. Others have left the country - illegally - to escape the torture, abuse and violence of Mugabe and his people. At this time I am not even sure if he has the legal mandate to remain at the top of the pile, but he is making a case to remain there, and is prepared to kill and continue killing to fulfil that.

Wherever you are in the world, imagine that there was a democratic shift in government, and the newly elected government was unable to take over, because the old government wouldn’t move over. And the old government was prepared to stand and fight the people to remain in power.

In your country, would that be acceptable? If it was in England or America, Spain, Japan? No? So why is it acceptable in Africa? Why then, are we allowing Mugabe to kill Zimbabweans to facilitate his own wants and needs?

He is one man - with a few thousand followers who have been hoodwinked about the truth! One man! And yet we continue to watch him perpetrate violence, abduction, rape, robbery and murder in Zimbabwe - and we do nothing?

Wherever you are in the world, tell someone, pass on the word, demand justice for the millions of Zimbabweans now trapped and being systematically tortured and killed for their want of democracy…

All they want is to live in peace and not have to struggle each day for food, fuel, electricity, education, medical services and employment.

You know - the things that we take for granted…

Robb WJ Ellis
The Bearded Man