Wow!
Does one not understand that dictators always remove opposition by using violence, arrest, starvation, murder, and torture? This is why they have police forces, militaries, militias, and secret police, far out of proportion to the population. Not to keep out invaders, but to control the populace.
People cannot revolt under such circumstances.
Unlike in Eastern Europe in the late 80′s and early 90′s when the Communists no longer had the stomach to machine gun all of the protestors. They had done so many times before under the Nazi occupation and under Stalin there were no successful revolts, they were all put done by machine gun, see Tibet today if you do not beleive this is still being done.
Burma shows how it was or is still done in such countries. Zimbabwe citizens cannot revolt since they are under constant surveillance and constant threat of violence to themselves and their families.
So calling for them to revolt, when that is patently impossible, is just a hypocritical or lack of will defense of why you cannot go help them.
The Rambo movie shows exactly what happens when the people revolting have no weapons or are outgunned by the government. So “without weapons there will be no change” to quote the movie.
Regime change is the only option. The only options are guerillas supported from wihtout, or by internal military overthrow, or by elimination of the dictator themselves by foreign intervention.
Zimbabwe has none of these options. Non-intervention seems to be a method for allowing the dictators to kill off the excess population that disagrees with them. That “excess” disagreeing population becomes larger every day so more have to be killed every year to keep the dictator in power.
