smart sanctions again

Smart sanctions - I can't stand the word any longer!

They seem to be the cause of all the bad in Zimbabwe and that's what you hear every day, over and over again.
Did they realise that Tony Blair is not in office anymore?

But I have learnt something new yesterday from an interview with the president:
When the government of Zimbabwe took away the white farmers' land, initially they wanted to compensate the farmers not for the land, but for everything they had built on the land, the infrastructure (and that's true actually). But then the British government stopped giving budget support to Zimbabwe and so the government of Zimbabwe was not able to pay for the compensations anymore (and that is also true). So it is in fact the fault of the British that the farmers did not receive any compensation. So they should in fact address the British government with their complaints.