Managing Mugabe

Few Zimbabweans care about their new constitution and the forthcoming
referendum will not be closely fought. The real test will come next year
when presidential elections must take place. Every such contest since 2002
has been drenched in blood, with Mr Mugabe using violence on a horrifying
scale to keep his stranglehold on power. The danger is that he will now hold
an orderly referendum and pocket the promised easing of sanctions, before
bludgeoning and rigging his way to victory in the presidential poll once
more. If so, Mr Hague’s new policy will look short-sighted and naive.
Instead, Britain should have declared that sanctions will be lifted if – and
only if – Zimbabwe holds a clean election.

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