Tutu condemns Zimbabwean government

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, March 16 (UPI) -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa called for open condemnation of Zimbabwe's suppression of democracy.

Tutu said Africans should "hang heads in shame," AllAfrica.com reported.

"What more has to happen before we who are leaders, religious and political, of our mother Africa are moved to cry out 'Enough is enough'?" Tutu asked in a statement. "Do we really care about human rights, do we care that people of flesh and blood, fellow Africans are being treated like rubbish, almost worse than they were ever treated by rabid racists?"

Tutu is the second South African leader to speak out this week. Zwelinzima Vavi, secretary-general of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, said the government's effort to change Zimbabwe through "silent diplomacy" is not effective.

The archbishop emeritus of the Anglican Church in South Africa, Tutu was one of the best-known black South African leaders in the pre-apartheid era.