ENI – Bishop Paul Verryn of South Africa, who came to prominence fighting apartheid, has called Zimbabwe's crisis a slow genocide. He spoke at a media briefing on an undercover mission in December to Zimbabwe by members of Civicus, an international alliance of non-governmental organizations.
Zimbabwe's population, of about 11 million, is being decimated by HIV and AIDS as well as hunger, cholera and diseases that remain untreated while the country's administration ceases to function following an economic collapse and food shortages.
In a letter to Civicus, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, said deaths in Zimbabwe by starvation, disease and apathy “are no less deliberate than those perpetuated with arms.”
