Tyrannicide the sole solution for Zimbabwe

Tyrannicide is the only solution for Zimbabwe because the country's dictator Robert Mugabe will not budge under public pressure, writes the daily De Volkskrant: "In antique times tyrannicide was a legitimate solution. Now people seem to abhor it. That was clear when Sadam Hussein was hung and people called it barbaric. No, barbaric is how I would describe Sadam Hussein's regime. And it is how I would describe the way the Iraqis subsequently let loose on each other. And it well describes ... the American method of war and occupation. Amidst all this barbarity the few minutes in which a tyrant is suspended between heaven and earth are for me among civilisation's most minor errors. One must ask oneself what is more reprehensible: military intervention to oust Mugabe, resulting in thousands of dead civilians, or a single murder."

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