Ed Royce: “With elections approaching in Zimbabwe, and the conditions on the ground deteriorating, it is important that we pass the…”

“With elections approaching in Zimbabwe, and the conditions on the ground deteriorating, it is important that we pass the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001 before this Congress adjourns. In Zimbabwe we are sadly seeing a dictator there literally burning his country down. I feel that he is very desperate there to keep his perks and avoid accountability for his crimes. As a consequence of that, he has sanctioned utter anarchy in his homeland in an attempt to win an election that he has been pressured by Zimbabweans into holding. I think that if he had his way, Mr. Mugabe would undoubtedly run Zimbabwe as a one-party State as he did run it during the 1980s, but Mugabe has spared no means in his attempt to suppress democratic expression in Zimbabwe.”