Robert Mugabe, one of the last remaining Castro-like, post-colonial dictators, has decided to lecture the West on morality — while at the same time calling his own people “filth.” As Mugabe is on the road denouncing President Bush and Prime Minister Blair, his henchmen are busy at home:

In its policy of forced evictions and mass displacement, the Zimbabwean government has violated the human rights of hundreds of thousands of its citizens, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

Speaking at a UN Food Agency meeting in Rome today, Mugabe ranted:

“Must we allow these men, the two unholy men of our millennium [Bush/Blair], who in the same way as Hitler and Mussolini formed their unholy alliance, formed an alliance to attack an innocent country?”

Some idiots in Rome cheered Mugabe on, but there was at least one sane person involved:

…Ambassador Tony Hall, who said he was “amazed” that Mugabe was invited to the meeting when his policies were contributing to the starvation of his own people.

I’ve known Hall, a Democrat, for years. He’s a good man and does not throw words around cheaply.

What complete perversion. Mugabe was speaking at a UN conference on food aid while he is starving his own people, whom he callously terms “filth.” Again, HRM :

The humanitarian consequences of �Operation Murambatsvina� (”Operation Clear the Filth”) have been catastrophic. Thousands of men, women and children are now internally displaced and are living without access to humanitarian assistance, particularly in the rural areas where acute food shortages are looming and humanitarian agencies have had difficulties tracing those in need of assistance.

The United Nations estimates that as many as 700,000 people have been evicted and their houses and properties demolished since the government launched the operation on May 19.

Human Rights Watch said that women, children, persons living with HIV/AIDS and foreign-born residents were particularly hard hit by the evictions. Accounts of the victims share a common thread: all cite a similar process of forced, indiscriminate and often violent displacement at the hands of police coupled with consistent orders to move to rural areas.