JAMES PHELAN,
Sir, - For how much longer can we watch in silence the destruction of what was once the bread-basket of Africa? For the past two years we have watched appalling scenes on TV and read some horrific stories in the press about the gradual descent of Zimbabwe into a famine stricken country by a government that was not legitimately elected.
The US administration has recently declared that it "does not see President Mugabe as the democratically legitimate leader of the country" (Walter Kansteiner, the US government's African policy chief).
What has Europe really done in the past six months? Are our politicians afraid to comment on this ongoing disaster?
It will be too late in three months' time when thousands of farmers will be evicted, and millions of Zimbabwean people will face famine and death due to their Governments' land distribution policy and Mugabe's decision to use food aid as the tool to starve his political opponents. - Yours, etc.,
JAMES PHELAN,
Howald,
Luxembourg.