CHINESE WEAPONS FINALLY MAKE THEIR WAY TO ZIMBABWE AND MUGABE

China is delivering weapons to a man murdering his own people while at the same time asking the world to help save its citizens. And the world complies. Shame on the world.

THE ZIMBABWEAN government said yesterday that weapons carried by China's so-called "ship of shame", the An Yue Jiang, had arrived in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, despite an international campaign to prevent the 77 tonnes of arms reaching President Robert Mugabe's regime.

The arms, including three million AK‑47 bullets, more than 3000 mortar shells and launchers and some 1500 rocket-propelled grenades, came as Mugabe's police, armed forces and militias cracked down harder on political opponents ahead of a presidential run-off election.

The ship was secretly refuelled offshore by the South African navy vessel SAS Drakensberg. The An Yue Jiang then rounded the Cape of Good Hope from the Indian Ocean into the Atlantic and headed for the Congo-Brazzaville port of Ponta Negra.

According to the South African and Mozambican newspapers, and subsequently confirmed by Mugabe's deputy information minister Bright Matonga, the arms were flown from Ponta Negra to Harare in giant transport aircraft belonging to Avient Aviation, a UK- registered freight charter airline operating out of Zimbabwe.

The newspapers reported that three weeks ago, two senior Zimbabwean ministers and two top army officers flew to Angola, where the An Yue Jiang stopped en route to Ponta Negra, to negotiate the subsequent offloading of the weapons.

Meanwhile...

Alarming reports are reaching South Africa about the scale of the crackdown in Zimbabwe on opponents of Mugabe. Six retired South African generals, headed by General Gilbert Lebeko Romano, returned from a fact-finding mission last week to Zimbabwe, saying they had uncovered "shocking" levels of state-sponsored terrorism. "What we have heard and seen is shocking," said the six generals in a statement. "We have heard horrific stories of extreme brutality and seen the victims. We have seen people with scars, cuts, gashes, bruises, lacerations and broken limbs, and bodies of those killed. It's a horrifying picture."

This is very irresponsible behavior from a country that wants to be your superpower.