Blood on their hands

摘要

LAST YEAR Emmerson Mnangagwa strutted around the World Economic Forum (WEF) declaring his country "open for business". This year Zimbabwe's president did not even make it to Davos. Instead, on January 21st, having cut short a foreign jaunt that was meant to end at the WEF, he arrived home to a country in chaos. Since January nth, when Mr Mnangagwa sparked protests by announcing a 167% rise in the price of petrol, Zimbabwe's security forces have meted out violence on a scale not seen for a decade. In the days after the price hike soldiers, police and militiamen from Zanu-pf, the ruling party, went house to house across the country beating, shooting or letting slip dogs on residents as young as 11.