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Tutu accuses S Africa over Mugabe

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu has accused South Africa of losing the moral high ground by failing to stand up to Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe.

The Nobel peace-prize winner told the BBC that using force should be an option to get rid of Mr Mugabe...

He said: "We should have been the ones who for a very long time occupied the moral high ground. I'm afraid we have betrayed our legacy."

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I can't help noticing the irony that a Nobel Peace Prize winner is now at the fore in calls for armed intervention. This is just another element in what has become nothing short of international high farce. Nothing funny in the slightest - more in the realm of pathos.

The United Nations meanwhile says it might take up to six months to control Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak, which has now killed 1,174 people.

Unicef spokesman Roeland Monasch said the number of cholera cases had now increased to nearly 24,000, spreading to all 10 of Zimbabwe's provinces.

Mr Monasch said 5% of cases were proving fatal, a very high rate compared with other cholera outbreaks.

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This is quite apart from the general mass malnutrition, starvation, hyperinflation, government-sponsored political repression, violence and corruption, etc., etc.

Zimbabwe's hyperinflation rate, the highest ever known, is officially more than 230 million percent, but some economists place it in the quadrillions...

The pale blue bank note that says 1,000,000 Zimbabwean dollars really means 10,000,000,000,000,000,000. Yes, that's 10 quintillion...

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Clearly this is one of the biggest boils on the face of the earth at present. The question still has to be can an outside solution be imposed? The African Union is unwilling, the UN is unwilling, Britain and the US really have no right, Archbishop's statements - laudable though they may be - make no difference on the ground.

It appears the world has decided to look on and pass by on the other side, either disinterested or in the hope the starving masses might rise up.

Except starving people don't rise up. They lie down...

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