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"The report, using unusually harsh language for the United Nations, said the operation clearly violated international law, and it demanded that the government immediately stop the destruction," says the Associated Press. "In response, Zimbabwe officials said the international community should provide funds for cheap housing and lift economic sanctions." (Foreign Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi today called the report "definitely false.")

"African nations on the 15-member Security Council have so far kept the crisis in Zimbabwe off the council's agenda," says the AP. "But several U.N. diplomats said they are hoping to get [UN-HABITAT executive director Anna] Tibaijuka to brief members on the report next week."

Maybe the United Nations will be able to act quickly once the urban poor have had their homes demolished, their jobs destroyed, their food taken, relief efforts raided, and the sick and elderly left without shelter in the winter. Oh wait, that's already happened. Well, they did write up a harshly worded report. Which is more than African leaders, who can't even bring themselves to criticize Mugabe, have done. They're too busy sending him money and food.

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