That motherfucker…
Uncle Elvis
Sorry for the profanity for those of you with weak constitutions. I thought it warranted today.
Yes, this is taken from an actual picture, from an incident that happened FAR too often today.
The “assistance” of the elderly (read: Easily intimidated), illiterate (Read: NOT illiterate) and infirm (Read: Folks who have had the shit kicked out of them so bad, they need help. Convenient, no?) by ZANU-PF is just remarkable in its blatantness. They’ve also been so kind as to dip voters fingers into ink to show they’ve voted, so that the goon squads… er… I mean helpful folks from ZANU can go ’round in trucks to help folks get to the polling stations, easily identifying them by the distinct lack of ink on their finger.
Of course, they also helpfully suggest who to vote for.
Apparantly bottles of black market ink are circulating around the suburb of Chitungwiza.
How fucked up is it that a) ink is a black marked good and b) a couple of drops of ink on your finger can save your life from another human being?
This whole situation is still so alien to me. I just can’t imagine having to live through that. No matter how much I read or ask or talk to folks about it, it STILL doesn’t compute to me.
I am honoured to know the Zimbabweans I do and can only hope that I can have HALF of their courage and conviction should anything happen to me.
They are amazing people.
Posted on: Friday, June 27, 2008 at 2:58 pm 
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July 11th, 2008 at 3:59 pm