Robert you are such a disappointment.

Few leaders at the African Union summit would criticize Mugabe openly because they know the real deal. They know how hypocritical the western media are and the double standards of western leaders who say something in public while doing completely the opposite behind the curtains.

I will give you an example, Compared to Meles of Ethiopia Mugabe looks like an angel.

We did not hear the same outrage, when Meles stole the election in 2005 , his troops massacred 200 mainly students that tried to demonstrate their displeasure and arrested more that 30,000 people some of them later were sentenced to death. Instead the west withheld some of the huge aid temporarily, and it was resumed shortly after. He was allowed to keep his power and was rewarded handsomely and given diplomatic cover.

As Meles is our SOB who is fighting our proxy war with Somalia, he is even allowed to use aid money to buy massive amount of armaments from North Korea, breaking UN and US sanctions .

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/08/news/arms.php

When Mugabe tried to buy arms legally from China, the same western governments were outraged.

Another example is the recent Human Rights watch report, that accused US, UK and EU for funding the atrocities of what was called “worse dissaster that Darfur “ to the tune of $2 billion, while looking the other way when Ethiopian troops are massacring, torturing, raping civilians.

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/06/12/ethiop19029.htm

http://tinyurl.com/ysmvtc

http://tinyurl.com/5aljl4

Despite the billions given to Ethiopia to feed his people, 12 Million people are being starved, as aid money is being pilfered and mismanaged.
Just this month, the military budget was increased by $50 Million while Meles’s minions were arguing with the donor communities, how many people are dying of starvation. To exacerbate the matter, the NY Times reported how the government is using food aid as a tool to control the people, and even redirecting the food meant for the starving to feed his own soldiers.

http://tinyurl.com/3p7vvr

http://tinyurl.com/53cc6m

http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/47985/2008/01/27-1644 01-1.htm

Not to mention what Ethiopia is doing in the neighbouring countries.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gWSuNtg8sIGBjTzDal P38Fz1wFBg

http://www.slate.com/id/2178793/

http://tinyurl.com/3u964k

Unless western governments do what they preach, and approach the leadership crisis even handedly, by condemning all murderous tyrants like Mugabe, Meles and many others, they can not expect African leaders who don’t have clean hands themselves to do the job.