Plus, it would be hypocritical for that government to want to hold the dentist accountable for the same $hit their president loves to do....


"" When considering what to get Robert
Mugabe for his birthday , one first must
understand that Zimbabwe’ s president is a
man who demands the finest.
His birthday parties don ’t cost hundreds of
thousands; they cost millions . His parties
aren’ t attended by thousands, but by tens of
thousands. And they don’t eat elephant ;
they eat baby elephant .
This was the predicament in which one
local landowner named Tendai Musasa
found himself when figuring out what he
would get Mugabe for his 91st birthday
party, which cost $ 1 million and was held
this past weekend. “ We regard him as our
father, ” Musasa said to the Los Angeles
Times of a leader who has been in power
for 35 years and is widely criticized for his
human rights record, disastrous economic
policies and impoverished citizenry . “ Our
provider, our hero . We regard him as a
very courageous man .”
For such a courageous man , who years ago
instituted violent and contentious land -
redistribution policies, Musasa would bring
out the big guns . He would kill a baby
elephant.
But it ’s not such a big deal, he said. The
elephant was no good anyhow .
“It had grown up [with ] a tendency of
charging and hostility to farmers ,” he
explained of his decision on which elephant
to slaughter . “They ’ re going to the ripe
corn. They become aggressive, stubborn and
unflinching in their attacks . Elephants have
got characters, like human beings . … We
send a message to the rest of them not to be
rogue animals . We put down the most
formidable charger or aggressor to say to
the rest, ‘Don ’t do this thing.’ ”
The elephant wasn’t enough , though.
Musasa also submitted for mass
consumption two buffaloes, two sables and
five impalas . Then there was the lion , shot
and mounted . And the crocodile, shot and
mounted. Those, Musasa said , weren ’ t for
eating. “ I personally identified an old lion ,
a huge one, ” he told the L .A . Times . “ If you
have studied the dynamics of the lion
kingdom, these lions are soon ousted by the
pride. They start to pray on farmers ’
livestock. They start to be a danger to
human lives . ”"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/02/zimbabwes-mugabe-condemns-white-safaris-eats-baby-elephant-at-lavish-birthday-bash/

^^^^^^ Mr. Archer I do believe it is more of the Western cultures that are up in arms over this than any of the other countries.
I may be wrong but from what I have read.. This country is jumping on a band wagon they have to to keep tourism alive and then when things quiet back down and another scandal is clamouring elsewhere..
This will be forgotten over there. IMHO

What I don't get is why now? People have been killing animals for a while now. Why is this guy different? Right or wrong...he isn't the 1st.

Yep Ms Rains,....and a lil more to back it up....


"" HARARE (Reuters) - As social media exploded
with outrage this week at the killing of Cecil the
lion, the untimely passing of the celebrated
predator at the hands of an American dentist
went largely unnoticed in the animal's native
Zimbabwe.
"What lion?" acting information minister Prisca
Mupfumira asked in response to a request for
comment about Cecil, who was at that moment
topping global news bulletins and generating
reams of abuse for his killer on websites in the
United States and Europe.
The government has still given no formal
response, and on Thursday the papers that
chose to run the latest twist in the Cecil saga
tucked it away on inside pages.
One title had to rely on foreign news agency
copy because it failed to send a reporter to the
court appearance of two locals involved.""

"" For most people in the southern African nation,
where unemployment tops 80 percent and the
economy continues to feel the after-effects of
billion percent hyperinflation a decade ago, the
uproar had all the hallmarks of a 'First World
Problem'.
"Are you saying that all this noise is about a
dead lion? Lions are killed all the time in this
country," said Tryphina Kaseke, a used-clothes
hawker on the streets of Harare. "What is so
special about this one?"
As with many countries in Africa, in Zimbabwe
big wild animals such as lions, elephants or
hippos are seen either as a potential meal, or a
threat to people and property that needs to be
controlled or killed.
The world of Palmer, who paid $50,000 to kill
13-year-old Cecil, is a very different one from
that inhabited by millions of rural Africans who
are more than occasionally victims of wild
animal attacks.
According to CrocBITE, a database, from
January 2008 to October 2013, there were
more than 460 recorded attacks by Nile
crocodiles, most of them fatal. That tally is
almost certainly a massive underrepresentation.
"Why are the Americans more concerned than
us?" said Joseph Mabuwa, a 33-year-old
father-of-two cleaning his car in the center of
the capital. "We never hear them speak out
when villagers are killed by lions and elephants
in Hwange.""
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0Q41VB20150730