Mugabe's failure to back a robust program to target the country's soaring AIDS crisis is contributing to his eroding grip on the country. Zimbabwean opposition leaders have been closely watching other successful opposition struggles for pointers. Hours after Milosevic fell in October, anti-government protests swept through Zimbabwe as parliamentary elections approached. We have given Mugabe a warning. A similar situation to Yugoslavia cannot be avoided.
People realize that dictators can be defeated.
Sharp's book, for instance, has been translated into four Burmese dialects at the request of Burmese opposition leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi, published in neighboring Thai newspapers, and smuggled into Burma. So that the Serbs, for instance, had resources where they could get this knowledge. And the Serbs grasped the concept and just ran with it. They realized that if Solidarity could overthrow the dictatorship in Poland, they could overthrow Milosevic in Serbia. When Out magazine's editor claimed his lover plays in the majors, he set off a media frenzy.