Since 1998 Mugabe's policies have increasingly elicited domestic and international denunciation. Mugabe's government pursued a costly intervention in the Second Congo War, expropriated thousands of white-owned farms, ^[1] printed hundreds of trillions of Zimbabwean dollars triggering hyperinflation, ^[2] and harassed and intimidated political opponents like members of the Movement for Democratic Change. ^[3] Zimbabwe's economy spiraled downward, ^[4] with food and oil shortages ^[5] and massive internal displacement ^[6] and emigration. ^{[7] [8]}