Abstract
On 9 December 2008, Reuters reported the death toll from Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic to be nearly 600. However, the number of cases and deaths reported daily is on the increase, with the World Health Organization projecting an ultimate case load of 600 000 with 6 000 deaths. The Mugabe regime denies all culpability for the epidemic and, in an astonishing display of Nazi-style propaganda, is blaming the outbreak on biological genocide being perpetrated by the UK and USA to justify a military invasion of the country. Reuters quotes Mugabe's spokesman George Charamba as telling the State-owned Herald newspaper that 'The British and the Americans are dead set on bringing Zimbabwe back to the U.N. Security Council, they are also dead set on ensuring that there is an invasion of Zimbabwe but without themselves carrying it out.' In one TV news frame, a forlorn Zimbabwean is seen holding a placard denouncing 'Brown's cholera' (referring to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown).
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