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Zimbabwe - I don't know enough about what happened there to have an opinion. But I think we have messed around more than enough in Africa. They ended up re-electing him though, didn't they?
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It is quite hard not to win an election when:
you control the army
you control the police
you control the justice system
the party becomes the state
all state resources are misused to ensure continued stay in power
the voters roll is not open to scrutiny and is widely known to contain millions of ghost voters
western vote observes are refused entry to the country
violent youth brigades sponsored by the state intimidate and terrorize the rural population
dissenting voices just disappear in prisons

sorry for not being able to avoid sounding cynical about this - but there has not been a free and fair election in Zim for many years;
(there is a judicial report about the 2002 elections (the 'Khampepe report") by respected South African judges which the South African governement is desperately trying to keep under wraps (actually they are in contempt of a court order for refusing to make the report public) = it will show that the SA governement tacitly endorsed a rigged election for political expediency )