Thursday, March 31, 2005

Fingered


purple finger
Originally uploaded by ukplc.
Robert Mugabe demonstrating that dying millions of peoples' fingers purple is no guarantee that democracy is on the march...
Other similarities with recent elections in Iraq include reports that "Independent election monitors and international agencies contend - and the government denies - that food has been widely used as a political weapon." (NYT)

1 Comments:

Blogger Handsome B. Wonderful said...

Here in the western countries bribes are usually money but in
Africa food is indeed a prized commodity.

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