clipped from: www.csmonitor.com   
forcefully oust Mugabe

By John Prendergast

he would rather watch his house burn down then give away the key to the presidential mansion.

he meant: that he would never leave power willingly as long as he was alive,

he would destroy the country if he had to in order to maintain his grip on power.

He's made good on his promise:

Half the country faces starvation, the government – which once boasted a literacy rate higher than America's – spends 18 cents per student per year on education, food prices double every 24 hours with the world's highest inflation rate, and a cholera epidemic rages as the once-stellar healthcare system collapses.

now that the house is burning, we must take away Mugabe's key

UN Security Council could refer the case of Zimbabwe to the International Criminal Court in order to investigate the systematic denial of food to people on the basis of their political affiliation as well as the widespread use of torture by the state.