US reveals its efforts to topple Mugabe regime

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Source: The Guardian (U.K.)

US reveals its efforts to topple Mugabe regime

· State department tells of regime change strategy
· Washington funded opposition activities

Ewen MacAskill in Washington
Friday April 6, 2007
The Guardian

The US admitted openly for the first time yesterday that it was actively working to undermine Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe.

Although officially Washington does not support regime change, a US state department report published yesterday acknowledged that it was supporting opposition politicians in the country and others critical of Mr Mugabe. The state department also admitted sponsoring events aimed at "discrediting" statements made by Mr Mugabe's government....

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In an unusual piece of candour, the state department report says: "To encourage greater public debate on restoring good governance in (Zimbabwe), the United States sponsored public events that presented economic and social analyses discrediting the government's excuses for its failed policies....

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Asked whether US efforts to promote human rights worldwide were being undermined by the hundreds of of people being held at Guantánamo, Mr Lowenkren insisted the issue was not raised by non-governmental groups at conferences he attended and participants were more interested in what the US could do to help them in their own countries....

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,,2051354,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1

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This is just great, we are down to basically two Governments (Zimbabwe and Russia) that we can truthfully claim to be better than, but yet we only mildly criticize them. I wonder if the WH will claim this report was a mistake or a leak or something in a few days?