Hindsight is, alas, perfect

I wonder what the people who gave Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe a standing ovation when he spoke at UBC a decade ago think of him now?

According to The New Republic Online, Mugabe's government is taking political advantage of the famine:

Reports of desperate hunger have been trickling out of Matabeleland for months. And Didymus Mutasa, ZANU-PF's administrative secretary and senior bureaucrat, recently admitted that whittling down Zimbabwe's population from its current twelve million is his government's explicit plan. "We would be better off," he said, "with only six million people ... who support the liberation struggle. ... We don't want all these extra people."