Australia and Zimbabwe Test

Jane McGrath did so much to raise awareness of breast cancer and provide financial and institutional support for the people who work to treat it. She conducted herself with grace and dignity. Her death is sad and newsworthy.
But I am fucking disgusted - no, outraged - that her passing is the front page news item on every major newspaper and news website when an entire country is on the brink of collapse and wholesale genocide. The leader of the opposition in Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, withdrew from the run-off election race because of escalating violence, persecution and blatant corruption by the tyrannical Robert Mugabe's ruling regime. According to Tsvangirai 82 of his party's officials and sympathisers have been murdered and thousands in hiding or displaced since his party legitimately outright won the elections in late March but were robbed and bullied of that victory by vote-rigging by Mugabe who manufactured a result the would require a run-on election, giving him enough time to orchestrate the reign of terror he has exacted on his opposition.

Tsvangirai has lead this party through from one wave of violence to the next hoping that if he got close enough to a win within the national system, the rest of the world would finally pull its complacent thumb out of its ass and back him. He got so close as to have actually won election, but still the international community sits on its big grubby hands. No oil, no gold, no bother. How could a man continue in the face of such abuse of his supporters and brutal global apathy?Tsvangirai is saving the lives of his supporters by backing down because the lives that have been lost in support of him and his party have literally been in vain. Mugabe is the new Hitler, and we are herding people onto the trains.

Today I am disgusted to be a human being. And I'm disgusted to be Australian.