Images show extent of Mugabe’s destruction

Robert Mugabe, Head Honcho in Charge of the sad land of Zimbabwe, has been moving more and more in the direction of becoming an African Pol Pot.

The true scale of a destructive campaign waged against Zimbabwe’s poorest and most vulnerable citizens by their own government has been revealed in previously unseen satellite images.

The pictures show how a community of 30,000 at Porta Farm, outside Harare, was wiped from the map last year, during President Robert Mugabe’s Operation Murambatsvina, or “Restore Order”. Countrywide, these demolition orders resulted in up to 700,000 people being made homeless in the midst of a food crisis.

This African government was supposed to turn Zimbabwe into a benevolent example of post-colonial self-determination after the ouster of Ian Smith’s government of (then called) Rhodesia. Instead, it has turned into an economic disaster of biblical proportions, with elements of Pol Pot’s killing fields. What a waste.

Dictator. Rope. Tree. Some assembly required.