Starving Zimbabweans raid food lorries (7)
Posted on 14 November 2008 by Jack
Starving Zimbabweans have stormed lorries carrying food across the border with South Africa.
Ten 30-tonne vehicles carrying private imports of the staple maize meal at the Zimbabwean side of the Beit Bridge border post were besieged by hundreds of Zimbabweans desperate for something to eat. Witnesses said that the crowd ripped the stolen bags open to stuff the uncooked cereal into their mouths.
“I have never seen anything like this in my life,” said a rancher from southern Zimbabwe. “I couldn’t imagine in my wildest dreams I would ever see Zimbabweans so hungry.
“Piles of bags of maize meal were on both sides of the road and people from all over the district came streaming in and I saw some breaking open the bags and eating it raw.
“Then it started to rain so it will go rotten, but people will eat it anyway. The world must know people are starving here.”
More than five million Zimbabweans, almost half the population, are expected to need food aid by the end of the year, but the World Food Programme said this week that it was having to cut the rations it distributes because of a lack of funding.
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November 14th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
This report issued a few weeks ago whereby food staples were refused entry. Now some 10 lorries carries thirty tonnes each are mong the population with reportedly hundreds of hungry people accosting the trucks and eating the staple maize raw.
Five million - half of Zimbabwe’s population are in danger of starving before the end of the year. As well, the seed for the growing season is not available. Mugabe’s implicated in the delays/refusal of entry for the needed foods and seed. This is where a “targeted assassination” agreed by a world body needs to be considered.
Look at the faces of hungry children, their crazed parents/guardians not far behind them. And this is the 21st century where tables were resplendent with many coursed meals at the World Food meeting some months back. That event and this present crisis can’t be reconciled or explained.
Additionally, reports have hinted that bio-fuel production using reportedly one third of the grain involved (maize) has drastically cut into available supplies. Reports have issued that some of the grain reserves have been emptied. That would also mean a shortage of seed supplies would exist.
One thing is sure. Allowing five million and growing to starve to death, is a failure of internationals to the point that ii’s perpetrated (intentional) by plan. Someone/thing/emergency meeting of leaders should respond, otherwise it’s going to be labeled, if it isn’t already, a perpetrated hollocaust for the purpose of exploiting the vast oil and minerals wealth that belong to African citizens.
I think the auto sector now can dispense with the charade of producing bio-fuels, since this is the direct result. That factor -plus “man’s inhumanity to man” tops the ‘agenda of the day’ raping the great continent of Africa with over-the-top greed for the resources. All who can move on this must. Because the “payback” to those individuals responsible will ultimately be worse than the above outlined STARVATION OF FIVE MILLION AND GROWING.
The Biafrans starved thirty years ago (oil rich Nigeria), the genocide in the Congo where U.N. troops have their hands tied behind their back — the locations are too numerous to list — all while the race for the resources and ownership escalates.
It’s been said many times. The resource rich, controlling business and gov’t sectors, do not glance ever at these scenes. They’re not interested. The day is fast approaching when they will join these ’suffering.’ But they don’t see it yet.