"Malawians are angry at the massive looting of government resources and want answers as to who is really behind this rot," he said.
"All those who hold elements of proof showing the involvement of these personalities in the looting of Congolese resources must get in touch with the state prosecutor," Evariste Boshap, a presidential aide, said on state television.
The pillaging of archaeological treasures, the plundering of factories and homes, the looting of national resources, the crippling of the Greek economy – following the Nazis' deliberate circulation of counterfeit Deutschmarks – offences that were all part of what Churchill would go on to call the "long night of barbarism" and from which it has yet to recover.
The report concluded that the DRC was suffering a "systemic and systematic" looting of natural resources, with the CNDP alone raising $250m over 18 months by selling coltan.
Mbeki joined the chorus of Zuma critics this month when he said South Africa was in a state of despair because of corruption and looting of state resources.
Although the opposition has traditionally been cautious about backing U.S. intervention, on August 25 its leaders said that "in the absence of impartial justice in Venezuela... sanctions for violations of human rights and looting of public resources will always have our support".
The government denied that its army was involved in the organized plunder of resources in Congo after a United Nations report blamed all parties in the civil war there for for looting minerals.
"Insider trading is passé here, here we have loot of public resources by corporations with the connivance of public servants," he said.
"Why would this happen unless there is a massive loot of our resources by a conspiracy between the royal family and the Americans?" For moderate Arab countries allied with the United States, then, no approach seems able to stifle radical Islam.
No wonder that for many in India, mining has come to epitomise the ugly underbelly of economic liberalisation - crony capitalism and rampant loot of natural resources.
